A quick shot of the top outer vent in, and the marking and second hole for the lower cage. Note how important the "indexing" hole I drilled from the inside is for laying out and measuring the cut areas on the backside. It's as simple as noting which way is up, and then laying the vent over the "indexing" hole and then tracing the outer perimeter.

The vents are installed both on the outside and the inside of each cage. The original plan was to just do the outside, but this left a gaping hole you could see from the inside. Then I thought about just doing the inside, but this left the gaping hole on the outside, not a big deal, but I chose to clean it up with a vent to cover it.

All the vents are installed so that the louvers are pointing upwards to aid in letting out any excess heat buildup. I potentially will have a little extra heat from the built in flouresent lights in each cage, so the extra large vents should take care of it for me. If I determine that it's too much vent, I can always tape it off to make the opening smaller.

Note that the vents also have the built in screens, to keep critters out of your house, or in this case in their cages.



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• Cage building updates - colubrid-aphilia, Sat Jan 14 20:08:13 2006
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• Vents anyone.................. - colubrid-aphilia, Sat Jan 14 20:18:54 2006
• And yet more vents............ - colubrid-aphilia, Sat Jan 14 20:25:53 2006
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