My amazing usband is in the Air force, and so we get to live on base. The house we live in isnt that bad realy there are a few problems here and there but most of them arnt anything I cant live with or work around. However I need a few ideas with a ltitle problem. When they built our house the put the heat vent in the wrong place. Our living space is just a bit on the small. I would love to put our love seat there but the heat vent in right in the middle and there is no room on eather side of it to make the furni fit. SO my qustion is...is there ant thought or products out there that will help here. So I can put the sofa where I want and still keep the room warm, or is this jsut somthing I have to live this?
Have the same problem and I use this same item under a sofa now.
http://www.improvementscatalog.com/product/heat-register-...
Good luck!
I've gotten plastic cover thingies that redirect the heat from a place called www.improvementscatalog.com. I think it was the "heat register deflector". It redirects the heat to pass under your couch and vent into the room. Or do a google search on "redirect heat" or something like that. I'm sure there is a solution to your problem that doesn't involve construction...good luck!!
we always just shut the vent, and bought a separate heater for the living room when our place was set up like that. They really aren't that expensive...
Is it the ONLY vent? If not you can close it off and it would just increase what comes from the other non covered vents. I've put heavy duty foil over mine and duct tape to hold it down. If it is the only vent I dont know of anything that would re-route the air flow. Your husband might be able to get creative and make something.... but it depends on how much room you have under the love seat. In my imagination a can picture some type of hose (like the aluminum hose at the back of dryers), close the vent off with foil and duct tape and have the hose there and sealed real well and route the air out where ever you want to place the other end of the hose. Not sure if that makes sense to you but I can picture it... ha.
There should be something to put on the vent that redirects the air sideways instead of having it blow on the furniture.
here is some technical advice on how to possibly do it:
http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/hvac/msg021146202159...
The problem is though, is there another heat vent for air to escape in the room? If its the only vent, the pressure can build up inside the capped off section and can possibly cause an explosion.
Shutting a vent is one thing to redirect air, but putting a couch on top of a covered vent it is different, I don't know how safe it would be. I would talk to an expert before you tried this.
They make directional vents that will solve your problem, and they don't cost that much. There is one that is made for the couch so that you put it on the heating vent and it will bend along the bottom of your couch and the air will come out underneath at the front of your couch. You can get these type of vent covers at a local building store like Home Depot and Lowes.
If your heat vent is in the floor, you could by a plastic thing to redirect the heat under your couch. My SIL did this a long time ago. If it is on the wall, have the couch at least 3 unches away from the wall and the heat will flow into the room. If you think the couch will move around, you can buy rubber "feet" for underneath the couch legs. I have an inflow vent partially behind my couch and this works well.
There are these things called "extend a vent" and they cover a floor register and redirect the heat out from under furniture.
I have a vend extender. I've had it forever so I hope they still make them. It's a piece of plastic that snaps on over the vent and ridirects the air forward it extends to accommodate verry large furnature. I use it under a hope chest so I've never had to extend it. The plastic seemed flimsy when I got it, but it's under a piece of furnature so it's held up several years. Just looked on line and if you type in vent extender they pop up.
