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How To Cut Hole In Carpeted Floor For Register

Wednesday, December 03rd, 2008 | Author:

So my 1 year erstwhile decided to beginning playing with the air vents recently… I had never fifty-fifty thought most these vents before she got into them.  Substantially they were just held there by gravity so she could easily just lift them out and then throw stuff downwardly that hole.  I think we lost a tennis ball somewhere into the HVAC organisation…  And then I decided it was time to babyproof them… here are the steps with some pictures to assist…

Tools & Supplies:

  1. Drill
  2. Contrasted drill $.25
  3. Vent Covers
  4. Screws
  5. Hot Mucilage Gun
  6. Countersink bit
  7. Screen Replacement Material

Instructions:

  1. Purchase some new vent covers (I had to do this step b/c my wife wanted new pretty vent covers… yous can skip this ane unless your married woman likewise wants new pretty vent covers…)    Make sure that if you're ownership something that you get something sturdy.  I don't call back the all-plastic models would hold up well.  I ended up with the iv″x10″ covers from lowes.  The within part is plastic but the whole top was solid metal which seemed fine to me.
  2. Buy some replacement screen material something like this from Lowes works just fine.
  3. Buy the screws you desire.  At present I wanted something that looked decent, just I couldn't discover anything at Lowes.  I went to a minor hardware store downward the road and found some antique black cabinetry screws with a square drive.  PERFECT!
  4. Depending on the screws you get you may also need a countersink scrap for your drill (if y'all got a metal vent in step #1, make sure that the countersink bit you lot get works for metal too!)
  5. Fit the vent into the hole and decide where you demand to drill so that you will striking the floorboard surrounding the vent.  Some of these vent holes look similar they were cut with a chainsaw, and then make certain that you're going to be drilling into something.  I reccomend looking at each of the holes individually because the guy cutting them was non only using a chainsaw, but was likewise hammered.
  6. Determine on the placement and then drill a hole for the spiral… pick yous drill fleck size very advisedly.  WIth the screws I chose if I fabricated the hole big enough for the thread then the head of the spiral could almost slip through.  *BUT* the metal was besides thick on the top of the vent to thread the spiral through like you would unremarkably…  The solution?   Countersink both sides of the hole so that it makes an hourglass shaped hole for the screw to easily thread throught but still allow the caput to take good purchase.
  7. Now cutting a piece of the screen to fit the bottom part of the register.  You want to make this long enough and so that information technology will loop over the slats when you open the vent.  Once you take this sized properly cut information technology out and just hot glue information technology in place.  (3 globs of gum on each side was good enough for me.)
  8. Allow the glue set for a scrap and so go drill the flooring boards and screw them down!
  9. Ta-Da!

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