I don’t have an ac in one of the small rooms in the house. It was blocked up using wood previously. Seemed to work, but now I have started to smell what is coming out of a vent from a nearby restaurant.
Is there a better way?
I need a non permanent solution.
in our house the landlord put red bricks and covered them with plaster, its non permanent, in the sense you can break it with a heavy hammer if needed. but its more permanent than a piece of wood.
Yep. I just edited it. I need something less permanent.
he didnt use concrete, but some sort of plaster / gypsum that can break easily.
who are you calling an achole?
That is what the ac guys put around the other air conditioners in the house. I’m just worried if smelling the restaurant means I’m getting slowly polluted to death.
Wood should work just as well as the plastic sheets (and better sound insulation) but you need to fill any gaps with something to block smells. I once used that expanding foam from a spray can, which blocked the pigeon smell and sound well enough. Use duct tape around all the seams to prevent the foam expanding inwards.
edit: it’s actually not that temporary, and it’s a bitch to get off later, so be warned. But it works really well at both sound and smell insulation.
I think I drank some achole in New Mexico once.
I’ve seen it done with blocks of styrofoam. Gives you good insulation as well. Is it hard to get styrofoam these days though?
They make plastic caps for them. I don’t know where you buy them though. Styrofoam and caulk sounds easy too.
I assumed they would, but couldn’t find anything online
We had a “change glass” man do up a window we had in Taichung years ago. Ask your security guy if he knows of a similar guy. Came up, measured and cut the glass and set it in. Non-permanent as it can be easily removed.
If you just silicone plastic sheets alone, a typhoon can rip that right out. Buy some cinder blocks and metal tie wire. Use wire with silicone connected to blocks. Fast and cheap installation/removal.
Edit. Most people also dont store important things around such openings. The relity of earthquakes, winds and rain leakage are the usual logic. Good place for an unimportant cloaet or similar. I wouldnt keep breakables, beds, chemicals etc anywhere near said openings.
Perhaps just seal the edges with liquid silicone (or whatever you call the kind that comes in the squirty tubes)? It scrapes off pretty easily and cleanly if necessary.
An ac
I thought about that but it wouldn’t stop the smell and it is just a storeroom.
Concrete blocks are cheaper than even broken acs from recycle yards.
