{"id":43111,"date":"2025-12-08T23:43:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T04:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=43111"},"modified":"2025-12-09T00:31:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T05:31:22","slug":"mom-needs-a-deflector-for-air-register-so-drapes-dont-wiggle-and-get-stuck-in-ugly-positions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=43111","title":{"rendered":"mom needs a deflector for air register so drapes don’t wiggle and get stuck in ugly positions…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

the air output register in Mom’s new apartment blows across the top of the vertical blinds, causing them to jostle and get stuck on the bottom and become misaligned.<\/p>\n\n\n

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this would drive me nuts (all those vertical lines not quite parallel, and the gaps!) and look at the disapproval from SugarRoo!):<\/p>\n\n\n

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was thinking to fab up a simple cardboard deflector, or maybe nicer (foam board? plastic?). but…
here’s one that should work. might need to add extra magnets, but i have that covered. we use one of these for the register above our seat in the downstairs tv room… without it cold air drops right on my head.
99% sure the rigister on her wall is the 6″x10″ (only seems to be 2 sizes avail, and it’s the larger one); the 6″ is the size of the hole, so there’s likely ~1\/2″ flanges on each side; collapsed down to 7″ min should put the magnets right on those flanges.<\/p>\n\n\n

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so, buy the ~$15 item on the left<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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