What is this vent for?

[shakers4u]

Has anyone seen one of these before? See images below.

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• shakers4u
• 5 May 2013
• 1

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• shakers4u
• 5 May 2013
• 1

I've recently bought this ground floor flat, ex-council, early 70's. The vent is about 800mm long, on an internal wall, nothing on the other side of the wall. There is a normal vent to the outside world in the other corner of the room. I think it may have had underfloor heating at some point.
Behind the vent are some bricks, maybe they have been used to fill in a hole, there is no draft apparent.

Looks like I could take it out and adjust the skirting board that currently runs above the vent.

 

[JohnD]

ground floor? concrete floor? Is (was) there a fire or gas-fire in the room?

faint chance it might once have been for warm-air heating, the older residents will know.

 

[longdogs]

ground floor? concrete floor? Is (was) there a fire or gas-fire in the room?

faint chance it might once have been for warm-air heating, the older residents will know.

Ha ha Thanks for that johnD

Does look like the vents we used to have in our council flat for warm air heating. There were main vents in the corner of each room high up by the ceiling and also slim vents at floor level under the gas boiler. Is there a cupboard above the vent which may have housed a boiler at some time?

 

[shakers4u]

It's ground floor, concrete. There is no sign of previous cupboards or boilers and no mains gas in the building.

Warm-air heating sounds like a possibility. Have got storage rads and electric fire now. Will have to get friendly with some of the other residents, see what they've got!