Keeping Vents Clean During Demo

When it comes time to tear out those walls, it’s easy to get too excited and start into it without taking a couple minutes to prep.  Keeping Vents Clean During Demo takes a couple minutes.  Cleaning your vents out after demo takes forever.  Keeping Vents Clean During Demo

Keeping Vents Clean During Demo

Although I forgot and got half my Closet Wall torn out before I looked down and saw all the crap falling into my vent.  Nice!  Here’s my no brainer to keep all that crap out of the vents…provided I remember to do it.

1.  Remove vent cover.

How to Keep Vents Clean During Demolition

2.  Place old T-Shirt (or kitchen towel or sheet or scrap of fabric…) over the hole and replace vent cover.

Keep drywall dust out of vents

3.  When done with your demo, clean surrounding floor, then fold the sides of the T-Shirt up over the vent and pull the whole thing out- crap and all.

Construction mess out of vents

4.  Dispose of crap and replace clean vent cover.

Keep Vents Clean While Remodeling

It’s true what they say about “an ounce of prevention”.  It’s just so HARD to remember to take it!

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12 Comments

  1. angie @ seriouslyahomemaker says:

    this whole discussion reminds of the dog poop bags that my neighbors carry past my house all day long. thanks for the image 🙂

  2. I usually remember late…but late is better than never, I hear. 😀

  3. Ha. I hate demo. Really hate it. Can’t wait for the Tah-dah moment to happen (because that will mean I’m done with the demo). 😀

  4. The cursed dust! (And Crap!) LOL

  5. I’m glad you get my sense of humor. LOL

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