Nail the two top pieces onto the two side pieces as shown above. The measurements we used for the 4″ x 10″ air vent register are 13″ x 9″ for the top of the air vent cover (two pieces of 10″ x 3/4′ wood plank cut to fit) and 13″ x 3/4″ x 1″ for the sides of the air vent cover (two pieces of 3/4″ x 1″ wood plank cut to the 13″ length for the big air vents. The measurements we used for the 4″ x 14″ air vent register are 17″ x 9″ for the top of the air vent cover (two pieces of 10″ x 3/4′ wood plank cut to fit) and 17″ x 3/4″ x 1″ for the sides of the air vent cover (two pieces of 3/4″ x 1″ wood plank cut to the 17″ length for the big air vents. Please note: I am sharing the type and measurements of the wood I bought so you’d know what I used for this project, but feel free to use other types/sizes of wood if you can’t find the same type/size wood at the hardware store or you have some scrap wood you’d like to use.Ĭut the top and sides of the wood to the dimensions to fit your floor air vent register. Valspar Sealing Wax (uncolored) (buy at Lowes).Valspar Chalky Paint in Kid Gloves (buy at Lowes).Varathane wood stain in Weathered Gray (buy at Lowes).We got these in Pine wood, but any kind of hard wood will work. When you can find them, they usually come in 4-6′ lengths, so you’ll need to do some math to figure out how many you’ll need depending on how many air vents you want to cover. These can be hard to find, so you might have to cut a bigger plank down to this size. 1″ x 3/4″ Wood planks for the base of the air vent cover.We got these in Pine wood, but any kind of hard wood will work (softer wood might split if it does ever get stepped on, but I still think the chances of that happening are pretty slim). They usually come in 6-8′ lengths, so you’ll need to do some math to figure out how many you’ll need depending on how many air vents you want to cover. 10″ x 3/4′ Wood planks for the top of the air vent cover.And as long as you don’t make these close in color to the floor you”ll be using them on, they will be very easy to see. People naturally give a foot or so of space between themselves and the walls when they are walking around inside. Now, I can hear some of you screaming at your computer screens: “But people are going to trip all over these!” Let me ask you this: how many times do you actually step on the floor air vent registers in your house? Floor air vents are usually installed in out of the way places and/or next to a wall. We made these to fit snugly in the back and front so they wouldn’t slide around too easily, but made the length of cover 3″ longer then the floor openings to keep any pee from going under the sides of the air vent, which are open to allow air flow. Registers come in all different sizes, so if you don’t have the same sizes as we do, you will have to do a little measuring and calculating to get a good fit. We made these to fit over the standard 4 x 10 inch and 4 x 14 inch floor air vent registers. There was no way I was going to put up with this and have our house smelling like we have too many cats, even though we have too many cats, so we had to come up with a solution. We looked around for floor air vent covers we could buy to solve our problem, but the only ones we could find that would remotely work were plastic and would surely break into a million pieces if they got stepped on. I finally decided to strategically arrange furniture to cover as many air vents as I possibly could, but there was still some air vents exposed. We did everything cat owners are supposed to do in this kind of situation- make sure there were enough clean litter boxes available, use feline pheromone diffusers, etc., which helped somewhat, but we would still have the problem from time to time. We didn’t have this problem in our old house because it didn’t have floor air vents, so we were mortified when we discovered our cats had taken to piddling down our nice clean air vents in our brand new home. So if I can help out some fellow feline lovers out there solve this very gross problem, well, I’ll take the chance that I might lose a few readers along the way.Īnyways, this problem started happening when we first moved into the house we’re presently living in. But you know I always try to keep things real around here, and I know if I’m having this problem, then there’s gotta be other cat owners out there that are having this problem too. So gross that I considered not sharing it and our subsequent fix on the blog. Now, I know that is really, really gross. Because that’s what our cats did- they peed down our floor air vents. And sometimes when cats are feeling especially jerk-y, they pee on things. This project wouldn’t have even been my cup of tea if it wasn’t born out of necessity. Okay, I know this DIY floor air vent cover isn’t going to be everyone’s cup of tea, and that’s okay.
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