Vent Covers &
Cold Air Returns

Flush Framed Vent Cover

Give your home an elevated feel with custom matched vent covers. All vent covers are cut from provided flooring on a CNC router then sanded, filled, and touched up with a custom, in-house stain match.

Optional: Add sliding dampers to your vents to allow for air flow adjustments.

Material that is 7” or wider will allow for a one-piece vent frame. Material that is less than 7” wide will require a jointed vent frame.

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Hardwood Framed Vent Cover Installation Instructions

Ordering Considerations

Duct sizes can vary from room to room in any house; we recommend checking and measuring ALL of your subfloor duct hole sizes before ordering!

Hardwood Flush Vent Covers:
Some hardwood flooring must be reinforced by gluing additional plywood to the bottom and this is included in the price. In rare cases, some hardwood flooring has nails and/or metal embedded in the core. This material is subject to a minimum surcharge plus the cost of each additional router bit that is consumed while manufacturing the order.

Material Requirements

Hardwood Flush Vent Covers:
For material 7” wide or greater:
Minimum one 32” piece of clean, knot-free, consistently coloured & grained plank per one vent.

For material under 7” wide:
Minimum three 32” pieces of clean, knot-free, consistently coloured & grained plank per two vents.

Flush Vent Cover – Frameless

Give your home an elevated feel with custom matched vent covers. All vent covers are cut from provided flooring on a CNC router then sanded, filled, and touched up with a custom, in-house stain match.

Optional: Add sliding dampers to your vents to allow for air flow adjustments.

Material that is 6” or wider will allow for a one-piece vent. Material that is less than 6” wide will require a jointed vent.

Available for:

Available sizes:

Flush Vent Cover – Frameless Installation Instructions

Ordering Considerations

Duct sizes can vary from room to room in any house; we recommend checking and measuring ALL of your subfloor duct hole sizes before ordering!

Hardwood Flush Vent Covers:
Some hardwood flooring must be reinforced by gluing additional plywood to the bottom and this is included in the price. In rare cases, some hardwood flooring has nails and/or metal embedded in the core. This material is subject to a minimum surcharge plus the cost of each additional router bit that is consumed while manufacturing the order.

Material Requirements

Hardwood Flush Frameless Vent Covers:
For material 6” wide or greater:
Minimum one 16” piece of clean, knot-free, consistently coloured & grained plank per one vent.

For material under 6” wide:
Minimum two 16” pieces of clean, knot-free, consistently coloured & grained plank per onevents.

Drop-In Vent Covers

Give your home an elevated feel with custom matched vent covers. All vent covers are cut from provided flooring on a CNC router then sanded, filled, and touched up with a custom, in-house stain match.

Optional: Add sliding dampers to your vents to allow for air flow adjustments.

Material that is 7” or wider will allow for a one-piece vent frame. Material that is less than 7” wide will require a jointed vent frame.

Available for:

Available sizes:

Drop-In Vent Cover Installation Instructions

Ordering Considerations

Duct sizes can vary from room to room in any house; we recommend checking and measuring ALL of your subfloor duct hole sizes before ordering!

Vinyl & Laminate Drop-In Vent Covers:
Drop-in style vent covers simply drop-in and “self-rim” around the outside of the HVAC floor duct (no professional installation is required for drop-in vent covers). Drop-in vent covers can be manufactured from almost any type of hardwood, vinyl and laminate plank flooring, including vinyl as thin as 2mm or 2.5mm glue-down PVC products. All drop-in vents are manufactured with the vinyl or laminate plank flooring reinforced with high-strength plywood on the underside.

Material Requirements

Vinyl & Laminate Drop-In Vent Covers:
For material 5” wide or greater:
Minimum one 32” piece of clean, consistently coloured & grained plank per two drop-in vents.

For material under 5” wide:
Minimum two 32” pieces of clean, knot-free, consistently coloured & grained plank per two vents.

Custom Cold Air Returns

Give your home an elevated feel with custom cold air return. Made custom out of MDF, left sanded to be painted on site. Alternatively, we can make it out of your flooring too!

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Ordering Considerations

Duct sizes can vary from room to room in any house; we recommend checking and measuring ALL of your subfloor duct hole sizes before ordering!

Custom Cold Air Returns:
These are custom ordered and made to fit your application. Note that louvers will be drilled with an angled louver by default. We can make from either our MDF material, or your prefinished flooring.

Material Requirements

Custom Cold Air Returns:
MDF:
ACM will provide all material.

Prefinished Flooring:
Minimum amount of flooring to take up the area of the cold air return with a waste factor of 50%. I.E. if the cold air return was 10″x16″ and you had 7″ wide planks. We would ask you to provide 3 planks 24″ long.

Primed White Cold Air Returns

Give your home an elevated feel with our standard-sized MDF Cold Air Returns. These provide a seamless integration into your baseboard for a minimalist look.

Produced by Legacy Wood Vents, they are sanded and with a layer of primer to be paint-ready for your new installation or renovation.

 

Custom sizes are available upon request. See Custom Cold Air Returns

Ordering Considerations

Primed White Cold Air Returns:
Duct sizes can vary from room to room in any house; we recommend checking and measuring ALL of your duct hole sizes before ordering!

When determining which size of Cold Air return to order, always round up from your measured duct hole size.

The overall size of the vent should cover the opening in the drywall.

Raw – Unfinished Vents

Give your home an elevated feel with our raw – unfinished vents. Perfect upgrade with your next sand and finish project, or an existing installation.

Produced by Legacy Wood Vents, they are sanded to be stained to “match” or a complementary colour on site

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Ordering Considerations

Duct sizes can vary from room to room in any house; we recommend checking and measuring ALL of your subfloor duct hole sizes before ordering!

Our raw – unfinished vents are convertible, they can be installed as a flush vent or a drop-in vent. This will uniquely allow you to adapt them for your installation.

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