Daily Home Renovation Tips

So, what are duct kits? Well, if you want to have your SaniDry unit take in moist air directly from another room and to return it to that other room you need a way of having the dehumidifier pull that air from the adjacent room. A duct kit contains an 8 inch by 16 inch vent cover, sheet metal boot, flexible duct line and the duct hood which sits on top of the SaniDry dehumidifier itself.

Here is a picture of the duct hood, already in place on top of the dehumidifier. As you can see, the duct hood has two openings, but all that is needed except in extreme situations is one of the opening through which the moist air is drawn into the SaniDry unit. Above you can see one end of the flexible duct line already in place and being secured with metallic duct tape.

OK, so first while Kevin proceeded to assemble the duct hood on top of the unit Noel measured and cut the hole in the drywall on the inside of the furnace room and then on the drywall in the rec room area for the upper vent opening. Rob? Well, Rob ‘supervised‘ (OK, OK, Rob, I’m kidding! ). The SaniDry unit will draw the moist air from on top and return the dehumidified air along the lower part of the room.

Noel’s measurements were, as they say, spot on. In the above picture you can see Kevin and Rob hold up the sheet metal boot into the hole made by Noel in the drywall on the inside of the furnace room, the location for our SaniDry unit.

Once the rectangular openings in both drywall boards were completed the duct boot was put in place and Noel proceeded to use the metal duct tape to seal the openings, per the above picture.

Then the vent cover was put in place with two small screws drilled into the existing 2 X 4 vertical studs as shown above.

But, why do we see light through the vent cover? Easy; it’s because Rob and Kevin have not yet attached the flexible duct line to the vent boot.

That is where we will pick things up tomorrow.

To continue to the next article in this series, simply select this link to Part 5.