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Remove wall vent

  • 12-06-2011 10:57am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭


    Hello all,
    We are doing up the house at the moment and have a wall or two of wallpapering to do. One of the walls (dining room) that we want to wallpaper has one of those 8"x4" plastic vents right in the middle.
    Is it safe/possible to remove the vent, fill it with expandable foam and sheeet off the hole?
    I realise there is the monoxide problems and death:rolleyes: but we've no gas or internal burners (fireplace alright in the living room), its a kitchen and sepearate dining room; but all one room really and the kitchen already has a vent; not to mention windows at either end too.
    What do ye think? Leave it or no problems in taking it out?
    Thanks for any advise


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  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 10,145 Mod ✭✭✭✭BryanF


    Hello all,
    We are doing up the house at the moment and have a wall or two of wallpapering to do. One of the walls (dining room) that we want to wallpaper has one of those 8"x4" plastic vents right in the middle.
    Is it safe/possible to remove the vent, fill it with expandable foam and sheeet off the hole?
    I realise there is the monoxide problems and death:rolleyes: but we've no gas or internal burners (fireplace alright in the living room), its a kitchen and sepearate dining room; but all one room really and the kitchen already has a vent; not to mention windows at either end too.
    What do ye think? Leave it or no problems in taking it out?
    Thanks for any advise
    you shouldn't close up any wall vents


  • Posts: 31,118 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Closing up vents will increase your risk of condensation on the windows and mould growth on the walls.

    The vents are there to reduce the build up of moisture in the house as well as providing fresh air for breathing, fires etc


  • Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,444 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    + 1 & +2 to the above.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,410 ✭✭✭bbam


    Remove the wall vent but you must replace it with trickle vents in the windows, as said before no vents in any room is a problem, for safety and then your fire may smoke if the room is too air tight...
    The wall vents are poor, they are noisy and in my opinion allow too much air in..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭cfeeneyinterior


    bbam wrote: »
    Remove the wall vent but you must replace it with trickle vents in the windows, as said before no vents in any room is a problem, for safety and then your fire may smoke if the room is too air tight...
    The wall vents are poor, they are noisy and in my opinion allow too much air in..
    I think we aleready have trickle vents... are they gaps/another vent built into top of the window frame that have a hoods on the outside and a lever/slide block on the inside to open/close? The living room with the fire also has a wall vent....? Going to leave that alone but the other one in dining room seems like overkill to me


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