Walt Kowalski and I got back to House #1 to finish some ductwork. The furnace is working just fine, but all of the supply lines and returns haven't been finished. In other words, the basement was nice and warm and the registers were open to the first floor so the heat could rise up through but the heat wasn't in a hurry to get there. Completing the ductwork will create pressure and force the air up the register (aka forced air). In other words, that lovely rush of hot air feeling when the heat kicks on.
Ahhhhhhh.
"Don't take my picture!" Walt Kowalski said inside the ductwork. "You are supposed to be closing the tailgate, not taking photos."
{Insert elephant noises echoing from inside the ductwork.}
"I have to take these photos so everybody believes me when I tell them how silly you are!"
The circle cutter for ductwork is one of my favorite tools. It has a drill bit on one side, to fit in any drill, and a center post in the middle. First, a pilot hole is drilled in the ductwork. Then the center post of the tool is inserted in the pilot hole and the drill bit is used to started another hole in the duct. Finally, the center post is held in the pilot hole while the drill bit is used as a cutting device to go around in a circle and cut a hole with the drill.
A little encouragement and guidance is required and a perfect circle hole is produced. Now the circle take off vent can be attached.
This is a completed one we did earlier.
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