How To Relocate A Floor Vent Across Floor Joists

The vent stack is not the problem as a toilet can be farther away from a vent stack than a shower or tub and you can easily add another vent especially on a top floor.

How to relocate a floor vent across floor joists.

Often these vents can be blocked restricting the amount of ventilation being achieved. House flipping brothers dave and rich show you how to move and install ductwork. Check to ensure that the new vent location does not cross a floor joist. Still commonly used is the panned floor joist.

The edge of the vent also sits under one of the dishwasher feet see attached pictures. Measure the width and length of the bottom of the vent with a measuring tape to determine the size of the hole you need to cut in the floor for the new vent location. Figure 1 floor ventilation overview. They can be blocked in a number of ways including.

I need to move a 4x10 floor air vent over to the next joist bay. Working on the lake house they want to put a new window between the two win. It is very inconvenient and i would like to install a vent that has a little bit of a 90 degree facing away from the cabinets as well as get out from under the foot of the dishwasher. Remove the existing floor vent from the floor.

Using floor joists as return ducts by panning can cause leakage because negative pressure in the cavity will draw air from the outside into the cavity through the construction joints of the rim area at the end of the joist cavity. The only way i can figure is to cut the joist and header it off to allow a 90 deg turn into the next bay and then cap it and cut the vent into the top. Does that sound ok or is there another way. The problem is the large waste pipe that is too big to drill holes in the joists or walls.