Crawl space vents?
Question:We have a crawl space under our house, with air vents around the house.. The vents are fitted with an aluminum frame with chicken wire, which prevent animals from getting into the crawl space.
We need to replace since animals broke into this. I went to home depot and could not find the aluminum frame, only a roll of chicken wire. How do we replace the vent coverings?
Answers:
Go to the Contractors Desk (usually in the far right front corner when facing the store) and ask them if they carry them or if they can order them.
Also, check with Lowe's (if you have one nearby).
Replacing them with chicken wire will be a real nuisance (due to attachment reasons), and will not do the same thing as the original vents.
The vents are to keep moisture from building up in the crawl space as well as keeping Radon from building up there. Chicken wire will allow for ventilation, but will allow too much ventilation, actually allowing moisture to accumulate under your house causing further problems. It will also allow cold air in which will decrease the efficiency of your heating system.
They probably keep the vents elsewhere so ask them about them.
We used to sell both slotted and louvred vents
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