Cable Duct or Voice tube

[bernardgreen]

A 40 yard duct from kitchen to garden shed not only carried the SWA cable for the power but it also acted a voice tube and allowed sounds from the shed to be heard ( albeit with ear close to duct ) in the kitchen.

No harm to relationships between parent and teenagers was caused by over heard sounds but it opens up ideas for other uses for the humble cable duct

Could one waft the aroma of a bacon and egg breafast along the duct to entice people back to the house ?

 

[AndyPRK]

good early warning that dinner is ready
or being cooked

 

[John D v2.0]

Could one waft the aroma of a bacon and egg breafast along the duct to entice people back to the house ?

That's a nice invention! Although probably not compliant with the latest airtightness regulations. You could hook up the mhrv exhaust to the duct perhaps and get the same effect without heat loss.

 

[flameport]

Such a thing would also act as an excellent method of rapidly distributing flames and smoke in the event of a fire at either end.

 

[bernardgreen]

rapidly distributing flames and smoke

Stick the hose pipe into it and you have remote fire fighting

 

[ban-all-sheds]

No harm to relationships between parent and teenagers was caused by over heard sounds but it opens up ideas for other uses for the humble cable duct

Gotta involve whistles at the ends of the tubes as per old ship engine room comms.

As for relations, I take it you got no herbal tobacco aromas wafting to you?

Could one waft the aroma of a bacon and egg breafast along the duct to entice people back to the house ?

It seems to me that them not coming back into the house would be their loss.

You could put in a pneumatic tube as used (still) by some shops (was much more widely used when you were a boy), and use it to send food to the remote location.

 

[Jackrae]

You could put in a pneumatic tube as used (still) by some shops (was much more widely used when you were a boy), and use it to send food to the remote location.

One of our shops had a spring operated overhead wire system with small containers whizzing to a central cash desk - oh dear, am I even older than my kids think I am !!

 

[Sureitsoff?]

Gotta involve whistles at the ends of the tubes as per old ship engine room comms.

As for relations, I take it you got no herbal tobacco aromas wafting to you?



It seems to me that them not coming back into the house would be their loss.

You could put in a pneumatic tube as used (still) by some shops (was much more widely used when you were a boy), and use it to send food to the remote location.

Sausages presumably..........

 

[bernardgreen]

Sausages presumably..........

and potatoes..... they are tubers

 

[eveares]

I don't know, perhaps you could stick a low power 24/7 fan on one end to aid natural ventilation OR you could juts fill the duct with mouse bait.

 

[OwainDIYer]

Such a thing would also act as an excellent method of rapidly distributing flames and smoke in the event of a fire at either end.

That interlinks the smoke alarms

 

[AndyPRK]

Ants would love it.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Sausages presumably..........

Soup, if it is downhill.

Arancini or meatballs likewise.