Replacement Vent Covers (Early 1900's?)
applesandshanana
13 years ago
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Too early for wine, need to vent
Comments (29)I'm glad your counters are not in danger of collapse anymore, but I have to disagree with what transpired here. 2x4s and plywood might be adequate to support the stone, but it's also butchery of your cabinets by hacks. It's like you got the drywall guys to do plumbing work for you just because they were in the same room. Stone professionals are NOT qualified to modify your cabinets! The cabinet installation should have been designed from the beginning to take the weight of stone. This is a builder and original KD error. What should have happened is that the stone guys should have refused to install the stone on top of your cabinets until you had a professional reinforce them. Yes, that would have been at additional cost to you to have a cabinet professional come in and do it right, but a cabinet professional would never have just screwed some plywood and 2x to the walls and called it a day. Stone professionals are NOT fine carpenters or cabinet installers. What they did will work, but it's not at all workmanlike and tidy and invisible. For anyone reading this in the future, it is NOT the stone professional's place to create support within the cabinetry for the counter tops. It is the cabinet professional's place to do that. You wouldn't want your cabinet guy trying to do a seam in your granite and you don't want your stone guy trying to hack a support into your cabinets. Get the right professional for the right job!...See MoreSeattle: Help choosing HVAC upgrade in early 1900s house
Comments (38)TC: they aren't trying to cheat you as the guys said. When I lived in Seattle, rates were so low that I had to call them since my first 2-month bill was $12. I thought it was a connection fee, but it wasn't. Now, your rates are slightly higher than mine are here in the East. When gas was more expensive a few years ago, the cost difference would have meant more than now. But your gas rates have probably gone down as the electric rates went up (still paying off those 5 nukes that never got built?). The Seattle area has such a mild climate (for being that far north) that heat pumps work just fine. So its not a surprise that they get recommended now that they are more efficient. (And lets not start a war over the definition of efficiency.) Another consideration perhaps. A heat pump will run year round in your location. An AC unit may only run 2-3 months in Seattle, if that much. Hopefully the AC unit will last longer from non-use. Which also means you don't really have to go with the higher SEER number since you are not going to see any ROI. 14-15 would be fine....See MoreVent Screws - Can anyone tell me what this is and where to get it?
Comments (21)Just coming across this discussion a couple years later. my home was milled on site in 1907. since moving in 2 years ago, we have been busy with a list of projects large & small. these wall & floor vents were one of the first things on the list, mostly because I have no interest in fishing my 1 & 3 year old out of them. I agree with you Russ. This was the standard hardware & fashion for the time. There was a metal vent shaft that covered the wood shaft. A screw, then eye of the hook hardware threaded onto screw at one end. The end of the Hook fastens to the hole in the metal shaft. All of mine are this way as well. I have not seen these parts in my searches either. Over the years if the metal shafts are damaged or removed, I’m sure you would have to get creative & secure the vent cover another way. local hvac company sounds like a good place to look. Also, I have come across good accessories online at ”house of antique hardware”. here is a picture of our vent with inside hook & screw attatched & unattached....See MoreHow to add a controllable alternate vent to a 10" vent hood duct run
Comments (8)I'm not sure I understand the intent of some of the comments. As I stated in the original post we blow hot air out of the upstairs windows while simultaneously opening all the downstairs windows to allow cool air to replace it. This method fills the house with cool air from the bottom up in the early morning when the outside air is coolest. I considered a whole house fan as we installed this in our last house and it worked quite well. Same principle - open all the windows downstairs while the fan blows the hot air out. I'm not sure how this got turned into an issue with not getting enough fresh air into our homes - we live in a mild climate and open windows to bring in fresh air all the time. This house has blown in insulation in the attic that is very light and is easily disturbed so I fear that an unducted whole-house fan would eventually cause the insulation to clog the attic vents. I suppose a ducted whole-house fan would work and I understand the reasoning behind separating functions. Since it seldom gets really hot we typically only do this for a small percentage of the days during the summer and it seemed to only have to run for about an hour so I thought it might be a good case for dual purpose. I just thought there might be some clever solution that could accomplish this without a lot of effort and expense. Thanks for the input so far....See Morecolumbusguy1
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