As you may remember from Jupin's December 30 article, the first-time Daddy is currently working on little Connor's bedroom. The room was previously a sun-porch, which had little insulation and no heating source. Directly underneath the room is the downstairs half-bathroom, which is very well heated. Of course you can't let a baby sleep in a poorly-heated room, so Jupin had to come up with some way of keeping the room warm without breaking the bank. His solution: to build a vent in between the bathroom and the bedroom that will allow heat (and hopefully not too much odor!) into the nursery.
He started by installing a vent grate into a ceiling panel in the downstairs bathroom. A small mistake was made in purchasing a rectangular grate to couple with the round vent, but as you'll soon see, such problems are easily solved with the handy-man's greatest tool: duct tape.
Next he used said duct tape to attach the duct (as phallically displayed here by Jupin) to the underside of the panel and grate, which would then be fed up through the bathroom and into the bedroom.The next step was to insulate the vent. This was probably the most difficult step, as the insulation sheets had to wrap around the vent, and there wasn't that much room between the floor and the ceiling with which to work. This video might give you an idea of just how tough it was. As Jupin said "It's a lot different from Home Again with Bob Vila."
Finally, the fan was attached to the duct in the interest of sucking heat up from the warm bathroom downstairs. The fan is electrically powered (obviously) and can be turned on and off via the power switch which was left exposed after the second grate (pictured behind the opened vent), allowing for simple control over the heat in the room. All-in-all, this is a simple solution for heating a room on a budget, but as Jupin says it's probably not the best way. But if duct tape is good enough for NASCAR, it's good enough for him.
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