Cold air returns can spice up a room! check them out right here:
Olympia style louvered wood
opera grilles
Bell Foundry
Sunset Boulevard
cold
air returns, eggcrate style wood
rickenbacker style with built-in filter tray
geometric style
geometric style with built-in filter
Olde Foundry collection
solid cast bronze and nickel
turn of the century collection
Pickford style grilles
our telephones: 509-535-5098, 509-535-1237
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Cold air returns provide the means for air that has dissipated it's thermal energy to continue back to your furnace to be warmed anew. After being heated again the air is pumped to your heat registers (often called supplies), thus warming your room. Because they are so prominent, why not have grilles with superior styling? Because they are such a large noticeable portion of your decor it is a good idea to pay some attention to their appearance. Cold air returns are typically made from cheap and unattractive steel lightly coated with some industrial looking drab paint. In contrast, our metal registers are made from solid brass, copper, or stainless steel. Our metal return air filter grilles are available in some great designs that you won't be finding at your local big box hardware store. Plus, we make these registers to any size you need...and we've seen some oddball sizes before! Not everyone can boast that they have custom made units such as these! The existing motifs shown on our site include the popular mission style, which looks great in a wide variety of houses, but especially craftsman or contemporary structures. There is also the classic basket weave design, as well as the ever popular honeycomb pattern, not to mention teardrop, and the popular slatted type mission design.
If you are looking for a unit with an integrated filter we can help you out. This is a useful option for those without a filtration device at their furnace. Sometimes the furnace is in an inaccessible location and so it is just much easier to to have a filter installed elsewhere.
If you have a vintage charmer house you may have existing eggcrate style registers. Often over the last one hundred years the wooden slats may have been broken. It is rare to find one in good condition. Our eggcrate style returns are made in a much higher quality manner than those from many years ago. It is difficult not to appreciate the classy look of the eggcrate style. Eggcrate style units are by far the best choice for using in a floor application. The geometric and metal registers are best suited for wall or ceiling applications, truth be told.
If this site is running slowly you might want to check out return air grilles. If you are looking for wooden returns or registers and want to find something with an unusual and classy appearance then you might try taking a peek at our geometric registers. The highly unusual motifs are precision cut with a laser out of high grade plywoods which can be had in a variety of facing woods including cherry, oak, maple, and paint grade. Not only are the geometric type grilles available in a wide variety of standard sizes, but we can also make them for in any oddball size you might need. In fact, we recently made one that was twenty six feet long! Of course, that was made in segments. You may want to complement return air grilles with heat registers.
Before contacting us to discuss your needs it is a good idea to measure your existing duct openings accurately. If you have more than one you will want to measure each one individually. Often, it is tempting to assume that all openings are the same dimensions, but they may actually be slightly different. Also, you will want to give some thought as to which way you want the patterns to run if you are ordering the metal units. For example, do you want the slats in the mission style return to be running the long ways or the short ways? Also, you will want to give some consideration to which type of wood you think would be appropriate. There are many different woods to choose from in the eggcrate style. If you have an existing oak floor and you want to match it then most likely you will want red oak, which is the type of oak that is most commonly used for these sorts of units.