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life is wonderful – livet er et underverk – la vita e’ meravigliosa

Today I spent two hours at IKEA because NYTTIG FIL 440 does not fit UNDERVERK ventilator. It is the third time in three days that I drive to IKEA. The purpose of this post is not to share all the details of my suffering but since I do not find this problem when I google it, I hope that somebody with the same problem will find this post and me. IKEA promised to check as they admit that the filter NYTTIG FIL 440 does not fit the new UNDERVERK on the contrary of what is specified.

The funny thing is that underverk means wonders and nyttig means useful, not useful and not wonderful yet.

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  1. Axel avatar
    Axel

    Did you found out how to solve it?!

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    1. letiziajaccheri avatar

      Yes we should not use the 2 plastic things only the filter. Thanks

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      1. Anna avatar

        One or two filter?

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      2. letiziajaccheri avatar

        Anna one filter but none of the two plastic rings good luck

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  2. Max Williams avatar
    Max Williams

    This saved me a lot of puzzling – thanks! On closer inspection, the underverk instructions do show to just screw the filters on, no brackets, but the filter instructions (Nyttigfil 440) show the filters being screwed into the (now useless) plastic brackets.

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    1. letiziajaccheri avatar

      happy to be useful – best wishes

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  3. Anna avatar
    Anna

    Thanks!!
    Am i suppose to use one or two filter?

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  4. Anna avatar
    Anna

    One or two filter?

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    1. FT avatar
      FT

      FT
      have used one filter on both sides of the engine, so there are 2 filters used, but no bajonet ring is used.

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  5. leocor avatar
    leocor

    Thank you very much. I’ll try tomorrow but I guess you are right. I was getting very upset of not beeing able to couple that bloody plastic rings! IKEA instructions were really awful this time!!!
    Grazie mille,
    Leonardo

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    1. letiziajaccheri avatar

      happy to be useful – best wishes

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  6. cazzzman avatar
    cazzzman

    grrrr, even build that vent off the cabinet and still could not attach that damn plastic, thank god i have found your post! thank you very much for posting this!

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    1. letiziajaccheri avatar

      happy to be useful – best wishes

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  7. Candice avatar
    Candice

    Thank you for the time saver. When using recycled mode do you still need to use the ventilation pipe? Instructions seem to indicate yes, but I thought that was why you buy a recycle filter so you don’t have to.

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    1. letiziajaccheri avatar

      happy to be useful – best wishes

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  8. Candice avatar
    Candice

    Do you need to duct into the ceiling of you are using the recycle mode with filters?

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  9. Anton avatar
    Anton

    Thanks from Russia, you saved a lot of time!!!

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  10. Sandra avatar
    Sandra

    Thanks for posting this!

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    1. letiziajaccheri avatar

      happy to be useful – best wisheshappy to be useful – best wishes

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  11. Célia avatar
    Célia

    Thanks so much! Saved us a lot of time! We put 2 filters, the trick is to turn them in opposite direction after you clipped them!

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  12. Kirsten Olsen-Buchkremer avatar
    Kirsten Olsen-Buchkremer

    You just saved me from throwing the vent out of the window of my 6th floor flat. Have a nice Xmas. Best regards Kirsten

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  13. Kiwi avatar
    Kiwi

    Many Many thanks…..

    This was doing my head in.

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    1. letiziajaccheri avatar

      You are welcome

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  14. stef avatar
    stef

    ho thank you so much from Paris!!! I had the same problem!!

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  15. stef avatar
    stef

    and so it doesn t work….I think they are compatible…

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  16. stef avatar
    stef

    not compatible

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  17. Daniel Link avatar
    Daniel Link

    How do you clean these filters? I remember something from the paper they came with (and I lost) that you can put them in the dishwasher, but that you should also put them in the oven at something like 120° C afterwards to reactivate the charcoal. Now, I can find something about the dishwasher on the IKEA website, but not about the oven. Does anybody still have the manual and can tell how the process works? Thanks!

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