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Take it off and spray paint it with white or your favorite enamel color and it will look fine. Is that for the return air? If so that is why it is a little larger than what you might be seeing otherwise.
The only time I see a grill/diffuser like that is in old homes that originally had a gravity furnace (no blower & no a/c) and the grills are usually positioned on interior walls. The idea was that gravity would have the heated air rise into the room, the cold glass would make the perimeter air sink to the floor and the difference between the two would draw the air thru the entire room slowly but effectively.
If you have a forced air system you'll want the grills position beneath a room's window or high on an interior wall pointing at the window. the blower changes how the air moves thru the room and can leave the perimeter glass areas cold if the proper modifications aren't made. Anything with forced air really needs the commonly seen louvered grill for proper distribution...the antique looking grills are terrible for proper distribution.
Take it off and spray paint it with white or your favorite enamel color and it will look fine. Is that for the return air? If so that is why it is a little larger than what you might be seeing otherwise.
These vents are actually the air supply vents pushing air into the room.
The only time I see a grill/diffuser like that is in old homes that originally had a gravity furnace (no blower & no a/c) and the grills are usually positioned on interior walls. The idea was that gravity would have the heated air rise into the room, the cold glass would make the perimeter air sink to the floor and the difference between the two would draw the air thru the entire room slowly but effectively.
If you have a forced air system you'll want the grills position beneath a room's window or high on an interior wall pointing at the window. the blower changes how the air moves thru the room and can leave the perimeter glass areas cold if the proper modifications aren't made. Anything with forced air really needs the commonly seen louvered grill for proper distribution...the antique looking grills are terrible for proper distribution.
We do have a forced air system. Would it be an expensive task to have location of the registers moved?
That is a traditional register. It's so traditional, it's most likely original.
Expensive is only the beginning.
Leave them alone. Mind the cardinal rule of home ownership: If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Lol I'll likely leave them there! I don't mind the way they look, I just wasn't sure how efficiently they would diffuse the air coming out.
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