People that mess with their ac system without knowing a damn thing about it annoy me, then I have to come work on it and tell them that their stupid fucking grille is costing them $ every month
After you install those, have an HVAC tech come check the static pressure of your system. If the static pressure isn't right, it can cause your equipment to underperform and fail.
Damn you, you beat me to it. You can’t believe how many of these stupid things I had to fix. Some wannabe interior designer gets a great idea to move a floor register into the wall and calls us when the air flow is bad and the room is hot/cold. Then they get all posts because we have to open it back up or climb into the crawl charging them 300-500 dollars
Another HVAC guy here everything mentioned by others is true this is bad but keep promoting these kinds of things because that's more work for me and that equals money.
@@james10739depends on the total tonnage of the system or you can go by the total cfm it requires through the intake or return to properly function. This "fix" will not fit the bill, their evaporator coil or indoor coil will end up freezing and their compressor will work much much harder than it needs to with this restriction. Which will shorten the life of the system
@@frostedflakes120 Sniper: Boom. Headshot Sniper: Sniping's a good job mate. Challenging work. Outa doors. I guarantee you'll not go hungry. Because at the end of the day, as long there are two people left on the planet, someone is going to want someone dead. Sniper: Ooh Sniper: Dad... I'm a... I'm not a crazed gunman dad, I'm an assassin. Well the difference being ones a job and the other's mental sickness! Sniper: I'll be honest with you, my parents, do not care for it. Sniper: I think his mate saw me. Sniper: Yes, yes he did. Sniper: Feelings? Look mate, you know who has a lot of feelings? Blokes who bludgeon their wives to death with a gold trophy. Sniper: Professionals have standards. Be polite. Be efficient. Have a plan to kill everyone you meet. Sniper: Dad.. dad... Put... Put mum on the phone
@@frostedlambsyou probably have another name for him though. Hvac is heating ventilation and air conditioning. Hes the man who installs or fixes all of your heating or ac.
Never worked a minute in HVAC…25 years teaching French to children and the first thing I thought was, “Merde, that looks like it is an obstruction, not a vent…how’s the air flow gonna work with that thing?”
@@mattboemer4549 Don’t be modest…you guys have some specialized knowledge. I’m sure there are plenty of idiots in the field who get by, but I’ll bet really good systems people are quite smart💜✌️
I think they’re both nice. But yeah it was a normal, standard vent and now it’s a weird square and i’m sure not many people would know what that is. 😭😭
@@gopackgo4036 I'm an engineer for the transport company in my country's capital city, and every two years like clockwork around budgeting time, we have to shoot down this recurring concept design for self-watering planters on our street light posts and sign posts. Like, yeah, looks great, but: 1. You'll have to hire a company to regularly canvas the entire city and prune back the plants before they block the lights and street signs. 2. Jerry-rigging a water system on existing electrical infrastructure is a stupid idea. Just another example of designers coming up with dumb shit that the engineers have to push back against :')
@@gopackgo4036engineers are really damn bad at making things convenient to work on for repairs though. For instance, to change a drive belt in a push mower I shouldn't need to drop the whole rear axil out of the unit to get to the pulley when there was plenty of space to make an access port or panel.
@ElderTitanOfficial that can still over load the motor. If the return has too little air draw it still adds an additional load to the fan motor that can burn it out. Plus these vents just look as ugly if not more, not a fan at all
Explain. I'm challenging your knowledge without being hateful, I'm genuinely curious. Growing up the only modifications that were ever made vents in our house were directional vent covers. Instead of having our floor vents blow straight up, we added clear 90° vent covers. We also lived in a 2 story log house.
@fattymatty823 Dunno any aerodynamics but I can visualize airflow with perfect clarity. So I took a monster can and stabbed it with a knife at the side of its base, then blew some tree in it. The smoke slowly came out the sides, and back out the sip entrance. So I blew into with no smoke. The smoke came out all three sides faster afterwards. Then I took another monster can and stabbed one hole in the base. Blew in a little tree. It came out both the siphole and stabhole, but with pure air blowflow it exited through just the singula stabhole with much more speed despite having only one and not two stabholes. This suggests that the airflow does not just travel to the side and escape, and instead receives a drop in speed from the presence of the equal but opposite reaction from the base of the can.
This is a return grille you amateur, there's a filter between this grille and the A/C system and odd shaped grilles aren't going to make any difference at all in overall efficiency.
Right. I was expecting it to idk serve drinks or project a movie on an apposing wall maybe do your taxes. Something to make all that worth while I think someone wants you to buy their new “got to have” product 😏🙄😬
@@Stophe_Most people past High school go into professional jobs and gain knowledge about very specific things in their field. Other people never grow past calling people Dweebs or nerds when they talk about something very specific that not a lot of people know about
If you want to get your wife’s attention, all you have to do is get comfortable on the sofa or recliner. She will always find something that she needs you to do at that moment.
@@DarkAvenger1234 . Bad airflow. The motor has to work a helluva lot harder to push air since it can't pull enough through the returns. Makes temp control a lot worse as well
@@error.418 in 13 days 843 ppl agree with chris on the other half 0 ppl agree with you in 15 hours and if people agree d with you I believe you should have around 40 likes by now If I didn’t 🤭 the math up
Yea, they are not very Pretty ! 1) It’s a standard return air grill - called a stamped Return air grill. Noisy & ugly ! 2) Better option - a Bar type return. More visually appealing & quieter. 3) Best option = Return Air Filter Grill which keeps the duct work clean filtering the Air BEFORE it Gets into the duct. Also changing the Units Air filter is Very Easy now. More appealing , quieter , easy to change air filter.
@@bareSnare Hilti has a very generous program for contractors that use their equipment. Your Drill/driver breaks, the Hilti Truck will come out to the contractors site and do a one for one swap. You generally are not going to get Millwaukee, Dewalt, et al to do that.
The designer could have designed it to just be a quick 4 screws design like the original if they didn’t like the screws there also plugs and things to hide them so it doesn’t take anything away from the designer That’s why I don’t understand why they started selling led lights that have to be thrown away entirely and fully removed each time they go out instead of replacing the bulbs or strips I get that they can save u little more but literally led bulbs already use so little power
Nothing wrong with wanting a change, but when they change prioritizes aesthetics over functionality to such an extreme that functionality becomes extremely limited, then it's a problem. A lot of rearranging, organizing, decorating, etc can often be a toxic habit
It obviously had too much airflow and wouldn't allow the coil to freeze up. Specs say this 10x10 vent has 29.8 in. sq. of open free area compared to the 100 in. sq. of the old vent.
Y'know that's a good business marketing. Have those wannabe self proclaim hobbyist do their thing. When all go south it's either two way: one they leave it alone or two they call expert and kaching money. Bad thing is, when they try to fix it become more difficult to restore
He blended it into a freshly painted wall. If your wall is older, the colors would not match and you need to paint the whole wall... And in case you have a structure on your wall and it's not really as flat as your try, well, then plaster the whole wall and paint it... And the air needs to flow as freely as possible or you cannot get your desired room temperature, the pressure argument is very valid.
@@tylerhansen99870 Yea, well you can open and close the vents on those ones just as easily as you can on the other style to adjust how much air goes through. It's not rocket science.
I believe I would have said no. There's a reason those original ones were designed the way they are: air flow and ensuring the static pressure is adequate.
Switching that vent won’t disrupt the static pressure🤦🏽♂️. It’s really just a different diffuser design that does the same thing, trims out a hole. If it was a problem just go open the damper to that trunk a little more. But really, both of those diffusers are doing the same thing.
Yes if that's the case then there's no reason to change them at all. How about the wife starts learning to do some of these things for herself and be a bit more independent than leaving everything to his husband to do? I mean it's quite obvious she's a stay at home wife what's she doing all day that she can't take the time to learn to do this herself? You really think he wants to do this shit after a long day at work? @@religionOFFENDSme
Welcome to America and it's ignorant, wasteful, selfish people 🤷♀️ and I'm an American too before anyone wants to get all racist and a whole ass white one if you want to go there. I'm so ashamed of what we've become as a country and a society. 🤦♀️
@@Puffalupagus360 The house I used to live in was a 100+-year-old plank house with plaster and lathe walls on a 14" stone foundation. The only way we could put in the cold air returns was on the floor using the floor and floor joists as 3 walls of the return with plywood on the bottom of the joists as the 4th wall.
Its not her project, its the client's. And the different disciplines always complain about each other instead of working together and figuring it out. God forbid you have to do your job and deal with interior designers. Your poor mum right?
Designers are like the engineer's or building homes. they add a bunch of useless nonsense to the project that only makes the lives of others worse. suddenly you're paying the HVAC guy to come back out and redo your HVAC to prevent damage to the system cause you fucked with the positive pressure of the system.@@CoronaTheVirus
It’s would always mess up during a blower door inspection the pressure of the air indoors and how much would escape from different areas doing these type of nonsense makes us have to go back and fix what they supposedly improved around the home for the next person to buy because they did all these useless thing than don’t keep the house it’s useless nonsense @CoronaTheVirus
@@CoronaTheVirus it's like engineers despise architects, one is there to make stuff work, the other is there to think of stuff that looks cool, obviously the person having to make it work is going to be unhappy if constantly flooded with unreasonably complicated requests.
You know how incredibly different that new airflow return vent is from your old vent? Probably less than 50% intake. I’d LOVE an update on your central air system and how it’s working currently.
@@michaelcouey1383 If you know what Half looks like, than you can estimate it. We saw both vents, and its clear to me that the new vent doesnt have near the amount of ventilation than the old one. Easily deduced by simply paying attention during the video.
@@killjoy1056 except you don't know how many sq inches of open area the new vent has (I do, I looked it up) or how that compares to the old vent. Nor do you know how many vents are in that room, what the draw requirement is of their hvac system, yet you assume that the vent cover they had was at perfect design spec for the application with neither too much nor too little air flow, rather than just a random vent that was pulled off the shelf when finalizing the install
What's the cfm of that 650 series Hart and Cooley grill vs. the new one? Please let us know what face velocity you used to calculate the cfm and how that affects total static.
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I love how he said "apparently these are ugly" meaning he probably hadn't even noticed them one bit.
Right same design people have been using for years too
honestly looked better before, having a random square-shaped divot in the wall isn't exactly common
to be fair, most people don’t look at a knee-high vent and go “that should look different”
Most people see a knee-high vent and go “pick a side ffs”
Because men are typically more utilitarian while women are more impractical.
I mean if it ain’t broke….
This is why engineers hate architects 😂
I learned at work how not to mess with return air airflow. And I would run this by the mechanical engineer before doing stuff like this.
But if engineers and architects work together they can make things the you can’t even imagine.
People that mess with their ac system without knowing a damn thing about it annoy me, then I have to come work on it and tell them that their stupid fucking grille is costing them $ every month
An architect's dream is the engineer's nightmare
As a engineer It's true
ngl, my instincts are telling me to push it so I can find the hidden door puzzle
whats the prize for the shopkeep's quest
@@Nthuziast it's the potion that the potion seller won't give you.
@@kay19129 Probably because he's too weak for his potions. Its not fit for a beast let alone a man.
As an hvac tech I can hear the service call already 😂
static pressure and lint are gonna be their worst nightmare.
What would the call say?
After you install those, have an HVAC tech come check the static pressure of your system. If the static pressure isn't right, it can cause your equipment to underperform and fail.
Damn you, you beat me to it. You can’t believe how many of these stupid things I had to fix. Some wannabe interior designer gets a great idea to move a floor register into the wall and calls us when the air flow is bad and the room is hot/cold. Then they get all posts because we have to open it back up or climb into the crawl charging them 300-500 dollars
@@burnpitcav1519just gotta love those form over function types.
What does a static pressure test cost?
Meanwhile I have 3 vents blocked at home and been working fine for 20 years
@@Moondoggy1941Companies should preform this test usually on a maintenance, if not probably just a diagnostic fee
"apparently this vent was really ugly" man that hits home
They weren't talking about you.
@@robcoop6521 I think he was pointing out "apparently" since it was kinda fine to begin with
The home was definitely offended by that
@@robcoop6521what is blud yappin on about
Women have ridiculous standards
These are the kind of people who have never heard the phrase “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it”
No, one of them has, along with “Happy wife, happy life.”
Women man
an architect's dream is truly an engineer's worst nightmare.
Hvac tech here. Looks terrific! But as previously noted this is very restrictive. Have the static pressure tested
I don''t have any knowledge of hvac, but, it seems its becoming more about aesthetics than functionality.
Ya i mean im sure thats not the only return vent but it looks like its in a 2×4 or 2×6 wall so how big of duct work to that cavity can they have
Now you'll just get questions all the time of what the square on the wall is for.
Another HVAC guy here everything mentioned by others is true this is bad but keep promoting these kinds of things because that's more work for me and that equals money.
@@james10739depends on the total tonnage of the system or you can go by the total cfm it requires through the intake or return to properly function. This "fix" will not fit the bill, their evaporator coil or indoor coil will end up freezing and their compressor will work much much harder than it needs to with this restriction. Which will shorten the life of the system
“And get this, they did it because ‘the vent was ugly.’” 🤣🤣🤣 All the contractors are laughing all the way to the bank with this one.
He isn't a contractor
The person who commented never said he was a contractor @keelled
@@frostedflakes120
Sniper: Boom. Headshot
Sniper: Sniping's a good job mate. Challenging work. Outa doors. I guarantee you'll not go hungry. Because at the end of the day, as long there are two people left on the planet, someone is going to want someone dead.
Sniper: Ooh
Sniper: Dad... I'm a... I'm not a crazed gunman dad, I'm an assassin. Well the difference being ones a job and the other's mental sickness!
Sniper: I'll be honest with you, my parents, do not care for it.
Sniper: I think his mate saw me.
Sniper: Yes, yes he did.
Sniper: Feelings? Look mate, you know who has a lot of feelings? Blokes who bludgeon their wives to death with a gold trophy.
Sniper: Professionals have standards. Be polite. Be efficient. Have a plan to kill everyone you meet.
Sniper: Dad.. dad... Put... Put mum on the phone
@@keelledlove a fellow schizophrenic
@@keelled Love me some schizoposting
Honestly, it’s not that the vent is ugly, it’s just that that vent is very pretty
Man that’s some damn good drywall work you got
Great job. If I had to choose. I would've kept the metal slotted vent.
100%
definetly
Me too.
agreed, but I like the industrial look
same
Also wife 2 weeks later: "honey can you do something to fix the AC, its not working like it used to"
Dusts off the old covers and reinstalls them.
Just like his pp
I think theyre talking about static pressure or something idk @@wheartswe dont have Hvac in the UK
@@frostedlambsyou probably have another name for him though. Hvac is heating ventilation and air conditioning. Hes the man who installs or fixes all of your heating or ac.
@@SuperJhon360 around 80% of the UK doesn't have AC so no they don't have HVAC.
The look on his face when she asks for the next two... adorable.
Bro popped that water like a beer lol
We've hit peak overconsumption
Fr
we even put money over humans
the unabomber was right xDD
No doubt
*Installs nicer air vents*
THE SCOURGE OF CAPITALISM.
As someone working in hvac, I just shed a tear
Never worked a minute in HVAC…25 years teaching French to children and the first thing I thought was, “Merde, that looks like it is an obstruction, not a vent…how’s the air flow gonna work with that thing?”
@@dtschuor459 yeah, I mean honestly I think most people will be able to figure it out; my job isn’t for smart people 😂
@@mattboemer4549
Don’t be modest…you guys have some specialized knowledge. I’m sure there are plenty of idiots in the field who get by, but I’ll bet really good systems people are quite smart💜✌️
@@mattboemer4549LMAO
As somebody working in IT, I can confirm there is no airflow here
gotta admit though, it looks pretty damn good
These vents will keep hvac technicians employed for decades
Honestly I like the original vent better, it was less noticeable and flush to the wall. Now you have a very noticeable indent in the wall.
I think they’re both nice. But yeah it was a normal, standard vent and now it’s a weird square and i’m sure not many people would know what that is. 😭😭
Well, it wasn't flush with the wall, it casts a shadow, but yeah
Our eyes have become so accustomed to those grills that we don’t see them. It is like telephone poles. Our minds erase them.
He covered the indent
Also, I wasn't wondering what the hell is that with the original vent.
I honestly cant blame her after seeing how good your work is
No weaponized incompetence here 🤩
↑ Bro is saying words he doesn't understand
@@bagged_milk67 go on
@@bagged_milk67bro is saying people doesnt know what they said because he doesnt understand it
Yeah a free home contractor yeah i would to
As a mechanic i agree with this message.
Im an independent contractor and I do mostly framing and sheet rock but I do it all, and that my friend, was indeed top notch quality on that mudding
Great job! That vent looks great! Don’t forget to check your ventilation system pressure to see if that modification will negatively affect your HVAC.
Yeah my answer would have not
*HVAC engineers have joined the chat*
You have to remember, a designer wants to make something look nice, an engineer wants to make something work nice.
@@gopackgo4036 as Ive said before to archetechts;
"Show me what you want and ill tell you exactly why you can't have it."
@@gopackgo4036 I'm an engineer for the transport company in my country's capital city, and every two years like clockwork around budgeting time, we have to shoot down this recurring concept design for self-watering planters on our street light posts and sign posts.
Like, yeah, looks great, but:
1. You'll have to hire a company to regularly canvas the entire city and prune back the plants before they block the lights and street signs.
2. Jerry-rigging a water system on existing electrical infrastructure is a stupid idea.
Just another example of designers coming up with dumb shit that the engineers have to push back against :')
@@gopackgo4036engineers are really damn bad at making things convenient to work on for repairs though.
For instance, to change a drive belt in a push mower I shouldn't need to drop the whole rear axil out of the unit to get to the pulley when there was plenty of space to make an access port or panel.
@@betafishjeremy7454as an engineer (although not of that kind) I can tell you most don't get the time to do things how they want to.
They both knew what they were getting into when they married a designer and a carpenter
Gotta say man.
You did a great job.
Those vents are the best way to overload your HVAC system and burn it out really fast.
Why?
How?
@@Nitrogen5090 they cause too much air restriction and cause the fan motor to work harder and burn out faster
@@zackschilling5154 This is a return vent. There wasn't much restriction once open.
@ElderTitanOfficial that can still over load the motor. If the return has too little air draw it still adds an additional load to the fan motor that can burn it out.
Plus these vents just look as ugly if not more, not a fan at all
"Honey can you do this?" "....no" *goes back to sleep*
That's me and my wife, and then me waking up very shortly after with a much better offer....
@@gabrielp1306yeah, keep dreamin', bud.
@@johnny7121 I don't have to. Did you think I was joking? My wife has a very high sex drive...
@@johnny7121 Not everyone is a simp like you bud 😂
just wants to know if its possible Kappa
Honestly i really like how the old and new vents look but i like the old one better
Okay but the look of "What am I gonna do with you?" at the end was wholesome af. Help. 😭
HVAC CONRACTOR HERE - Those grills will destroy your airflow and your system. Do not install those.
Explain. I'm challenging your knowledge without being hateful, I'm genuinely curious.
Growing up the only modifications that were ever made vents in our house were directional vent covers. Instead of having our floor vents blow straight up, we added clear 90° vent covers. We also lived in a 2 story log house.
@fattymatty823 Dunno any aerodynamics but I can visualize airflow with perfect clarity. So I took a monster can and stabbed it with a knife at the side of its base, then blew some tree in it. The smoke slowly came out the sides, and back out the sip entrance. So I blew into with no smoke. The smoke came out all three sides faster afterwards. Then I took another monster can and stabbed one hole in the base. Blew in a little tree. It came out both the siphole and stabhole, but with pure air blowflow it exited through just the singula stabhole with much more speed despite having only one and not two stabholes. This suggests that the airflow does not just travel to the side and escape, and instead receives a drop in speed from the presence of the equal but opposite reaction from the base of the can.
@@fattymatty823all the other comments seem to be on about “static pressure” and that these covers can mess with air flow which causes the AC to act up
This is a return grille you amateur, there's a filter between this grille and the A/C system and odd shaped grilles aren't going to make any difference at all in overall efficiency.
So essentially what you're saying is... if it ain't broke don't fix it.
Regular return vent looked great and normal 👍
ya but that gf needed to feel in charge. that's all that matters these days
Or, you know, it's staged for the video.
God, people are so sensitive these days.
It was ok but the new one is much better though
@PupStunt24 that comment was staged tho
Right. I was expecting it to idk serve drinks or project a movie on an apposing wall maybe do your taxes. Something to make all that worth while I think someone wants you to buy their new “got to have” product 😏🙄😬
I prefer the one that actually looks like a vent tbh. The vent you put on looks like someone tried to cut a square in your wall😂
Why does their living room look like one of those troom troom or 5 minute craft rooms
There's a reason we install particular grates when we're doing our ductwork. Static pressure is important.
you really are a critical architect@@TheCriticalArchitect
DWEEB ALERT@@TheCriticalArchitect
@@Stophe_Most people past High school go into professional jobs and gain knowledge about very specific things in their field.
Other people never grow past calling people Dweebs or nerds when they talk about something very specific that not a lot of people know about
@@TheCriticalArchitect this was the most sophisticated clapback I have seen in a while
@@TheCriticalArchitectThank You❤
"Ma'am, your husband just sat down and he looks comfortable."
If you want to get your wife’s attention, all you have to do is get comfortable on the sofa or recliner. She will always find something that she needs you to do at that moment.
Better find a chore to talk about
he doesn't share the chores, that bum
@@JT_70seems like an experienced person 😂
Nice work 👍💯
To be fair it does look a LOT better
I love the fast forward sounds
As a former duct apprentice, all I can say is "enjoy replacing your indoor unit next year!" 😂
100%, this is sponsored garbage
Why?
@@DarkAvenger1234 . Bad airflow. The motor has to work a helluva lot harder to push air since it can't pull enough through the returns. Makes temp control a lot worse as well
likely would need double the number of returns - i agree.
Is it just me or is there no ductwork even behind that grill LOL
This is one of those times where the expression “don’t fix it if it ain’t broken” really comes in handy
Correct, however, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it
It ain’t broke, it doesn’t look bad
If it's something you enjoy doesn't matter how many times she wakes you up
This is how you know they are happy together the fact that he didnt get mad but just smiled and chuckled
It's a video. He's not gonna act mad on camera and lose subscribers lol.
Accurate, especially the sitting down trying to chill part
Living with a designer means, they see something they like and want someone else to do the work for them.
My mom with any damn thing. She loves to "garden" nah she likes flowers we be out there digging and shit like bruh this your project not mine.
@@soul-ringgames8835 My mom wanted a pond...me, my half brother, and dad, fucking out their sweatin' diggin holes n shit n she watchin
@anthonyconner3099 Yep sounds about motherly XD.
man thats your mom
@@anthonyconner3099
@@anthonyconner3099this is out of context and i'm not mocking you or anything else but what is half-brother? Is it like step brother?
That drywall job was clean 🔥
Not really...
@@error.418 in 13 days 843 ppl agree with chris on the other half 0 ppl agree with you in 15 hours and if people agree d with you I believe you should have around 40 likes by now
If I didn’t 🤭 the math up
@@error.418how
@@error.418I like it there is only one thing on the top right corner
Not when the sun comes in
Upper middle class people just always find a way to make a simple thing less effective and more complicated for the sake of aesthetics.
those are actually super cool
Lol it really wasn't ugly, but its very nice that you went out of your way to change it out just to bring her joy
he did it for the video, the fuck you talking about "her joy" smh
(He didn't. It's a commercial.)
1st world problems in real time
Yea, they are not very Pretty !
1) It’s a standard return air grill - called a stamped Return air grill. Noisy & ugly !
2) Better option - a Bar type return. More visually appealing & quieter.
3) Best option = Return Air Filter Grill which keeps the duct work clean filtering the Air BEFORE it Gets into the duct. Also changing the Units Air filter is Very Easy now.
More appealing , quieter , easy to change air filter.
U mean content to youtube lol
The old vent probably works best and in my opinion actually looked nicer.
It 100% works better
these TH-cam shorts just anger people. the asssholes who post these really think people wanna see this shit
How would you know? Have you used the new vents? You are used to the old ones...doesnt not mean they wont work better.
@@sherlockholmes60how would you know? 😂😂😂😂 You think they updated vents so they wouldnt work? Y'all are so dumb.
Impossible to clean
that new vent looks like something i'd see in prison
That's why I procrastinate
ok but you did an AMAZING job damn. so many people wouldn't properly cover and blend the edges!!
I don't know.. there must be curvature there now, nah? He should dip them in 2 mm.
@@Reloecc No drywall is flat. You can see that the vent is designed to be screwed in (and blended) exactly like you would any vinyl corner bead.
They wouldn't but they would in their own home
yeah I disagree... should have dipped and if you paint you gotta do the entire wall, or you're gonna get a surprise when the sun sets
So many people wouldn't be that fussy about an "ugly" vent.
The old vent looked fine and looked like it would work.
i was gonna say that they replaced a perfectly fine vent with an arguably uglier one
@@themanhimselfsunny can you imagine the difference in time and labor between the two? All that work for so little...return...ha ha!
yeah but interior designer is interested in what looks good, not what is practical or functional. (without consulting HVAC engineer).
@@andrewmurray1550 and it still looks like shcoop
Man - Butt hits couch
Woman - There is a disturbance in the force
Cracked that water like it was a beer 😂
I have a feeling she loves you cause you're a professional contractor.
The Hilti drill screams pro contractor.
its an ad.. there was no duct for the vent
@@bareSnare Hilti has a very generous program for contractors that use their equipment. Your Drill/driver breaks, the Hilti Truck will come out to the contractors site and do a one for one swap. You generally are not going to get Millwaukee, Dewalt, et al to do that.
@@ericb6048 Good eye.
His drywall skills are pro level
Replacing a working, perfectly serviceable vent, with one that requires hours of work and ruins the wall when it has to be changed. Great idea.
I never thought of that! Yeah, someone is gonna have to hack it off the wall if it ever needs to be replaced or temporarily removed !
☕🤡
Good thing vents can really fail right.
The designer could have designed it to just be a quick 4 screws design like the original if they didn’t like the screws there also plugs and things to hide them so it doesn’t take anything away from the designer
That’s why I don’t understand why they started selling led lights that have to be thrown away entirely and fully removed each time they go out instead of replacing the bulbs or strips
I get that they can save u little more but literally led bulbs already use so little power
@@danionescu988but the man installed it…
bro... that was clean AF
Theres a reason those old vent have these big open slots on them.
Nothing wrong with the old vent
I even liked it more..
Women just spend money on the dumbest things.
Literally nothing wrong
Nothing wrong with wanting a change, but when they change prioritizes aesthetics over functionality to such an extreme that functionality becomes extremely limited, then it's a problem. A lot of rearranging, organizing, decorating, etc can often be a toxic habit
It obviously had too much airflow and wouldn't allow the coil to freeze up. Specs say this 10x10 vent has 29.8 in. sq. of open free area compared to the 100 in. sq. of the old vent.
Lol the begining got me, I was like "it is just a vent replacement, it takes like 2 min tops", then dude breaks out the mud and I understood the pain
as a designer, I can confirm that living with a designer is stressful
As a contractor. Please keep installing these. Youre helping me pay for my kids college. And thank you for keeping me in business ❤️
I was thinking the same thing and I don't even work in your line of business. 😃😄👏👍
They are literally not better at all. People are just entitled fucks.
Designer? Lol
@@BenSamaChanno, he has to go to that dudes house and put the regular return grille cuz that stupid shit isn’t gonna work
Y'know that's a good business marketing. Have those wannabe self proclaim hobbyist do their thing. When all go south it's either two way: one they leave it alone or two they call expert and kaching money. Bad thing is, when they try to fix it become more difficult to restore
There goes his $25,000 air conditioning system
25k? I'll bet the entire system costs less than 7k
@@nsantnope hvac is expensive
I’d love to meet a sucker like you and sell a 25k unit 😂
@@lookItsJayden a new 80 i think percent furnace cost me 3k back in 2020
Is his house 6,000 sq ft?
That designer sofa looks real comfortable…..
That new vent is pretty cool
Nice! I never knew these existed! Also, you blended this in really nicely.
Yeah I wouldn’t recommend you installing them unless you want your HVAC system to fail due to loss of static pressure
He blended it into a freshly painted wall. If your wall is older, the colors would not match and you need to paint the whole wall...
And in case you have a structure on your wall and it's not really as flat as your try, well, then plaster the whole wall and paint it...
And the air needs to flow as freely as possible or you cannot get your desired room temperature, the pressure argument is very valid.
Waste of time
I’m surprised how good that came out, I hope the functionality doesn’t fail
It's a f*cking vent. As long as it's letting air through it can't fail lol.
@@riotpb10false
@@riotpb10Ah yes, tge amout of air going through it does not matter at all
@riotpb10 it actually can, if the air flow and pressure isn't right, it can fry uour whole system because it'll be constantly trying to regulate.
@@tylerhansen99870 Yea, well you can open and close the vents on those ones just as easily as you can on the other style to adjust how much air goes through. It's not rocket science.
I thought the new one was even uglier until the job was done lol had to trust the process here
I hate the new vent so much more, gosh. But good job on you for installing this abomination so skillfully!
This is like fixing what ain’t broke. It was a vent. Looked fine to me.
this is what we call women
Well than why buy another pair of shoes when you got 1 ryt??..Just because something ain't broken doesn't mean you don't need to change it
@@azoladusubana9488 bad analogy difference shoes for different activities not going hiking in stilettos
I believe I would have said no. There's a reason those original ones were designed the way they are: air flow and ensuring the static pressure is adequate.
Switching that vent won’t disrupt the static pressure🤦🏽♂️. It’s really just a different diffuser design that does the same thing, trims out a hole. If it was a problem just go open the damper to that trunk a little more. But really, both of those diffusers are doing the same thing.
@@religionOFFENDSmeessentially meaning it was initially fine
@@Tai-Dye It was initially fine, changing them are about looks not functionality. Neither one restricts air at all.
Yes if that's the case then there's no reason to change them at all. How about the wife starts learning to do some of these things for herself and be a bit more independent than leaving everything to his husband to do? I mean it's quite obvious she's a stay at home wife what's she doing all day that she can't take the time to learn to do this herself? You really think he wants to do this shit after a long day at work? @@religionOFFENDSme
@@michealpersicko9531 🤦🏽♂️
The original was more inconspicuous than the new one
Hes going so fast that the hour glass is not even going down
Imagine choosing aesthetics over security and even practicality 🤦🏻♀️😵💫
Welcome to America and it's ignorant, wasteful, selfish people 🤷♀️ and I'm an American too before anyone wants to get all racist and a whole ass white one if you want to go there. I'm so ashamed of what we've become as a country and a society. 🤦♀️
i think the "ugly" vent cover looks fine to me XD
Security?
Yes security, in a rural or new urban setting the new vent is less secure structure wise and would allow rodents and snakes to enter.
Well, that's most women's clothing in a nutshell.
Does it allow for enough air flow? The patch work looks great to me.
Who the fuck cares about airflow? Designers breathe farts of their imaginary unicorns.
Anyone else think that drywall mud is just adult playdough?😅
They do look really good
That grill cannot have the same free area as the flat grill
There’s no duct there, just a hole in sheet rock, see the stud?
@@TylerSmith-qx6uzwall pockets are often used for the return air ducts in cheaply built houses.
@@TylerSmith-qx6uz That's most likely a return grill so the wall cavity is the duct work. That's the way it is in my house.
@@Puffalupagus360 The house I used to live in was a 100+-year-old plank house with plaster and lathe walls on a 14" stone foundation. The only way we could put in the cold air returns was on the floor using the floor and floor joists as 3 walls of the return with plywood on the bottom of the joists as the 4th wall.
That's a lot of work for a new vent
not according to women. they think everything is as quick as changing a light bulb.
And when that new vent breaks, good luck replacing it
A lot of work just to damage the system
That's what I thought too. Why fix it if it ain't broke. He did do a flawless job installing it though.
It's the kind of thing a designer would pick out and the contractor ends up fantasizing about strangling them the whole time they're installing it.
The new vent looked really cool before you put the cover on
love how he said "apparently it's ugly"
"if it ain't broke don't fix it"
Exactly, some supposedly upgraded look even uglier. This looks : ahhh 😂.
I swear they’ve mastered the art of painfully uncomfortable timing
white ppl love "reinventing" the wheel
It’s funny how much I hate when I have to do these jobs for myself but I’ll watch a short of seeing it done
Spending money replacing perfectly good functional things.
As a plaster/painter by trade, your work was on point 👌
Except for the whole wall needs painted not just the vent area
@@scotts3574looked like just primer and a coat of "for sale white" so assume the whole wall will be painted later.
@@scotts3574I do drywall and paint as well and was thinking the same thing
@@ulogy you can’t assume anything if they didn’t show it. He sat down like the job was done
@@brandon10301991 I mean, I can assume, and I did, so...?
My moms an architect she always hated them interior designers because they would mess her project up to put in nonsense 😂😂
Thanks for calling that shit "nonsense"
Its not her project, its the client's. And the different disciplines always complain about each other instead of working together and figuring it out. God forbid you have to do your job and deal with interior designers. Your poor mum right?
Designers are like the engineer's or building homes. they add a bunch of useless nonsense to the project that only makes the lives of others worse. suddenly you're paying the HVAC guy to come back out and redo your HVAC to prevent damage to the system cause you fucked with the positive pressure of the system.@@CoronaTheVirus
It’s would always mess up during a blower door inspection the pressure of the air indoors and how much would escape from different areas doing these type of nonsense makes us have to go back and fix what they supposedly improved around the home for the next person to buy because they did all these useless thing than don’t keep the house it’s useless nonsense @CoronaTheVirus
@@CoronaTheVirus it's like engineers despise architects, one is there to make stuff work, the other is there to think of stuff that looks cool, obviously the person having to make it work is going to be unhappy if constantly flooded with unreasonably complicated requests.
Okay. Ngl. You made me understand drywall
I love how the hour glass works
You know how incredibly different that new airflow return vent is from your old vent? Probably less than 50% intake. I’d LOVE an update on your central air system and how it’s working currently.
what math did you use to arrive at that conclusion? How many sq inches of air flow area does that metal vent have vs the new vent?
How about thr fact that there's not a fking air duct behind the vent either😂 entire thing screams staged for views/to sell a product.
@@noahjones4237 cold air returns often use the wall cavity as it's duct. It's not uncommon at all. In fact, it's pretty typical.
@@michaelcouey1383 If you know what Half looks like, than you can estimate it. We saw both vents, and its clear to me that the new vent doesnt have near the amount of ventilation than the old one. Easily deduced by simply paying attention during the video.
@@killjoy1056 except you don't know how many sq inches of open area the new vent has (I do, I looked it up) or how that compares to the old vent. Nor do you know how many vents are in that room, what the draw requirement is of their hvac system, yet you assume that the vent cover they had was at perfect design spec for the application with neither too much nor too little air flow, rather than just a random vent that was pulled off the shelf when finalizing the install
“Can you do these ones aswell?” Automatic response should be “Head”
I bet the animatronics will be angry when they see this 💀
I personally think older one looks better.
That’s why you’re not a designer
This needs to have 100K more likes.
The weird square is way more noticeable and distracting than the old traditional vent
@@astralsheepu7379 If being a designer means installing dumb shit that blocks correct air flow, I’m more than ok not being a designer
I came here to day this.. lol
*blower motor has left the chat*
There isn’t even a duct there, it’s just a hole in a wall.
Blower motor has upped the Amp draw 25%😅
@TylerSmith-qx6uz It is the return vent for the hvac system. It is imperative that the return is not restricted for maximum efficiency.
The evaporator is going to need a good cleaning every few months as well.
Actually blower motors will spin easier if the airflow is blocked, because they can then just fling the same air around. That's a fun fact for you.
That’s an awesome vent!
He just opened a can of sparkling water
Let them know you did this when you call the AC guy because your system is freezing.
Oh they'll know, if they are worthwhile theyll tell them to call a different company to replace it because its not worth the headache.
@@M-uj2tr That's just not true. Depending on how old your paintjob is and if you have the paint originally used it totally can work.
What's the cfm of that 650 series Hart and Cooley grill vs. the new one? Please let us know what face velocity you used to calculate the cfm and how that affects total static.
The first thing designers learn is "Form follows function".
But somehow all of them go with "fuk the function"