Metal "thingy" that covers vacant Air Conditioner slot

March 16, 2006 7:15 PM

Where can I buy a replacement cover for the air conditioner slot?

Typical apartment in Brooklyn has typical "Fedders" type air conditioner slot below the window. I used to have a unit in there until I replaced it with a window unit. Regrettably I mistook the metal sheet that covers the vacant slot for scrap metal and recycled it. Without going to Super or Landlord, how can I get a replacement cover? I've been freezing like an idiot for three years.

posted by sswiller to home & garden (3 comments total)

Can you build a simple wooden replacement? You could even cover the outside of the slot as well as the inside and put some insulation between the two.
posted by Pollomacho at 8:11 AM on March 17, 2006

I wish I could but I haven't the tools to do it. Right now I've duct taped some cardboard to it and piled blankets in front of it, but I really want a replacement cover and I can't seem to find one.
posted by sswiller at 5:06 PM on March 17, 2006

Does it have to be a flat sheet or will this inside AC cover do ya? A flat metal sheet for a through-the-wall air-conditioner opening sounds like it might be a custom manufacture for the building(s) A machine shop could make you a replacement sheet given the right measurements, although it doesn't seem like a metal plate should block the cold too well anyway.
posted by mdevore at 1:03 AM on March 20, 2006