I can't find Baseboard registers that fit the gap in my 1 x 4 inch oak baseboards. Do I have to redo all the trim in my house?
3 bedroom ranch built in 1957. Registers and returns were rusted out. I ditched them and ordered new ones based on the size of the duct, but its not working out. I've bought and returned a ton of registers. I can't find the right size baseboard register. From end to end the gap in the oak baseboard and the mark on the wall from the old register is 15.5 inch x a hair over 7.5 inches. Not a single register I've bought fits the hole without leaving a (at most 1.25 inch) gap on each side between the new register and the oak baseboard. All the returns and registers I've tried are either not wide enough or not tall enough. Redo all the trim in the house? CUt little inch in pieces of 1 x 4 and patch the baseboards? And then spackle and paint every room to get rid of the chipped plaster showing at the top (registers are a hair too short too.) Some sort of custom register? This nonsense about measuring the hole vs. the outside dimensions is making me crazy. Am I missing something? Going insane? TL;DR. I measured the duct openings, but the outside dimensions of the replacement vents don't fit the hole left by the old registers. This one is oversized but close. Do you suppose its possible to cut away a little bit of the baseboard? https://imperialgroup.s3.amazonaws.com/site/RG0042-14in-x-8in-Painted-Steel-Basseboard-Return.PDF Help, please? Any help or advice is welcome. Sorry I'm being snarky. I'm at the end of my rope and feel like I've really f#cked myself by tossing the old registers. submitted by /u/Temperance522 [link] [comments]
3 bedroom ranch built in 1957. Registers and returns were rusted out. I ditched them and ordered new ones based on the size of the duct, but its not working out.
I've bought and returned a ton of registers. I can't find the right size baseboard register.
From end to end the gap in the oak baseboard and the mark on the wall from the old register is 15.5 inch x a hair over 7.5 inches.
Not a single register I've bought fits the hole without leaving a (at most 1.25 inch) gap on each side between the new register and the oak baseboard. All the returns and registers I've tried are either not wide enough or not tall enough.
Redo all the trim in the house? CUt little inch in pieces of 1 x 4 and patch the baseboards? And then spackle and paint every room to get rid of the chipped plaster showing at the top (registers are a hair too short too.)
Some sort of custom register?
This nonsense about measuring the hole vs. the outside dimensions is making me crazy.
Am I missing something? Going insane?
TL;DR. I measured the duct openings, but the outside dimensions of the replacement vents don't fit the hole left by the old registers.
This one is oversized but close. Do you suppose its possible to cut away a little bit of the baseboard?
https://imperialgroup.s3.amazonaws.com/site/RG0042-14in-x-8in-Painted-Steel-Basseboard-Return.PDF
Help, please? Any help or advice is welcome. Sorry I'm being snarky. I'm at the end of my rope and feel like I've really f#cked myself by tossing the old registers.
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