Once Again, Jill’s OCD Need To Center Everything Backfires
Submitted by: Dan Century via Submit a Kludge!
Favorite Comment: Fixer lolcalroger says, “Given that the register is there and unmoveable, and you have to do the moulding for consistency with the rest of the room, the better way to do this would have been to just butt the ends of the moulding flat up to the top and bottom of the register and let the eye carry the line past the interloping form, treating it with the contempt it deserves as a thing not part of your kewl design.”
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Apparently Jill’s OCD doesn’t cover measuring!
HEY! My name is Jill and I think this looks awesome!
Good thing you wasted money on that expensive molding.
don’t get it.
I think you meant to say, “This doesn’t register with me.”
You win 3 Internets. And owe me a keyboard.
If this happened in my house I’d do some venting!
It would really grate on my nerves everytime I walked past this wall!
Tetris Heating & Air Conditioning.
that’s funny…
Given that the register is there and unmoveable, and you have to do the moulding for consistency with the rest of the room, the better way to do this would have been to just butt the ends of the moulding flat up to the top and bottom of the register and let the eye carry the line past the interloping form, treating it with the contempt it deserves as a thing not part of your kewl design.
Unmovable? Uh oh! I moved a few registers in my house when I did some remodeling. Really they aren’t hard to move at all. Take out drywall and move the duct (over in thise case) or to another part fo the wall as needed. It’s really simple and repairing the drywall isn’t hard either. The moulding job done here looks horrible!
Considering that it looks like a standard american drywall: what about spending 10 minutes it would take to center the register?? Some people just can’t say no to kludges.
Have you ever really tried to do this? I have, there is a lot more than a simple registrar plate to move here, and I’d bet dollars to donuts that there is a stud in exactly the wrong place. Ripping out drywall, cutting and framing in a support member, moving the vent stack just to make a bit of molding look nice really isn’t a ten minute job. It is more like two days and a very lot of money. IF you know what you are doing.
You *cannot* move that register in ten minutes without using even greater kludges.
@localroger & Kuba
Or, for a SUPER KLUDGE (oh, oh- did I just invent a new category?)…
Buy two or three extra grilles and offset them in a similar fashion the rest of the way up the wall. And if you’re feeling extra-ambitious, paint a small black rectangle on the wall behind each of them.
Shows a real eye for design, that one.
I guess the architect needed to vent his artistic needs.
After grilling the duct and registering nothing, they then set up a frame job.
how about just removing the moulding completely? unless the homeowner is really proud of their, um, heating system?
Thank you. I don’t get why they put moulding around the vent to begin with. This doesn’t appear to serve any purpose whatsoever. At least the motorised shopping cart has a fun factor to it.
Agreed. Unless the thermostat, outlets and light switches also have mouldings around them, as well. Then leaving it off the vent WOULD draw attention to it. But maybe the owner is just really, really proud of his new miter saw–after all, he didn’t stop at a simple rectangle.
It shouldn’t take too much effort to relocate the vent if you have the right tools. After all, it’s called Duct Tape for a reason
centre*
moulding is awful, remove it from the entire house!
no no no, its “cdo” not “ocd”. Before you ask, “cdo” is in alphabetical order, thank you very much.