Internal air brick removal

[Neil Carroll]

Any idea how I can remove this air brick ?, it's internal and appears to be made of plaster , it's not letting a lot of air in and im going to remove it and clean it , is it just glued on to the face of the wall ? , Id ideally like to keep it and reattach it as can't afford a nice looking one and don't want to buy a plastic one , however as I say it seems to be made of plaster and quite soft and i've already snapped a corner off , also the brick outside is single brick size and this is obviously bigger , is this normal , thanks in advance

 

[opps]

Could you not simply spray a can of compressed air into it?

 

[Neil Carroll]

I thought about it but then I'm assuming that all the crud in there would then just sit between the internal and external brick and work it's was back into mesh ,

 

[Neil Carroll]

Apologies there seems to be an existing post on this , just looks like it's a case of getting a flat blade behind it and lifting it out , trying not to break it.

Wall vent removal

Hi there, Does anyone know how these wall vents are fixed to the wall? I think it's original from when house was build 60's. Can't see any sign of fixings. Was thinking to take a utility knife to the edge of it to see if it would lever off. Aiming to not damage the plaster work, cut and fit a...

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Thanks.

 

[foxhole]

I thought about it but then I'm assuming that all the crud in there would then just sit between the internal and external brick and work it's was back into mesh ,

You assume incorrectly , you could vacuum or blow out the crud.

 

[Neil Carroll]

I've just taken it off , turns out the actual hole is the size of half a brick so over 50% of the vent literally just covered the wall!

 

[foxhole]

I've just taken it off , turns out the actual hole is the size of half a brick so over 50% of the vent literally just covered the wall!

Not unusual.