Ds dear son is making me crazy.
Baby keeps pulling floor vents.
If your primary concern is that your child can lift the registers the best way to prevent this is to secure the vents in place.
The first option is to screw or nail your registers into the floor.
Yes you are probably going to have to get some screws or nails a power tool roll up your sleeves and do some diy.
You need to secure the vents somehow.
Two ways to easily cat proof your air vents 1.
The first method is to nail or screw the registers into the floor.
Secure your vents and registers.
This sounds obvious and it is but when i hear someone tell me their cat is lifting or getting into an air vent in their home i always scratch my head and wonder why it s not securely fixed in place.
He actually takes them out of the floor which leaves a good sized.
It may be a pain to move furniture but it is a free way to childproof your floor vents until your child loses interest and moves on to another entertaining activity.
If your child never notices the heating and cooling vents on your floor consider yourself lucky.
Secure the registers.
Our cats go down the vents i need to prevent this.
I had my husband screw them into the flooring as i have one that was doing.
Why it s important to childproof floor vents.
Here s what we are doing to stay ahead of covid 19.
If they are metal you will need to purchase screw in vents.
Right now his latest is pulling up the floor vents from the heat.
There are several ways this can be done.
I have cats that pull up the floor vent covers whats the best way to keep them from pulling them up.
I had never even thought about these vents before she got into them.
If you have wood registers just use a hammer or drill to keep them in place.
If you ve been pulling your hair out over this here are some tips on how to childproof your hvac s floor vents.
If your registers are wooden simply use a drill or hammer to put them into place.
It can be hard though to get kids to leave them alone.
Jul 27 2012 so my 1 year old decided to start playing with the air vents recently.
Use plastic while this may not solve the issue of objects going down the floor vent you can easily avoid cuts and sharp edges by switching out metal registers for plastic ones.
