Foundation Vent Covers – Important Things To Know

Outline of Foundation Vent Covers Important Things To Know:

1.  Southern Location Foundation Vent Cover Installation – Southern Locations where it seldom freezes just need a foundation vent cover with a fiber glass mesh screen on the back to keep insects and varmints out.

Before  and After – Southern Locations do not need a blocking plate in the winter months to seal off the foundation vent cover completely as they do in the northern states.  This installation only needed the fiber glass screen mesh and our Craftsman Style Arts and Crafts Decorative Foundation Vent Cover Grille #RR-209 08×08 which has a total frame size of 10″ x 10″.  Love the transformation.

In the past, foundation vents have been an after thought, usually left up to the mason building the foundation with no regard to the overall appearance of the house.   In this case, leftover wire from the foundation stucco was used.  Twenty years later, the current homeowner removed it and installed our Craftsman style grille with fiber glass mesh on the back.  The mesh on the back actually helps to block the view into the crawl space.  Now their patio looks great.  Details matter.

French Style Louis XIV Style Foundation Vent Cover  #RR-203 06×14   Total Frame size 8″ x 16″.  Shown in Rubbed Bronze Finish.  Foundation Vent Cover Grilles come in 10 beautiful finishes which are tempered to withstand exterior conditions.

2. Northern or Mountainous locations with sub-freezing temperatures should close off the air flow during the cold winter months.  

Beaux-Arts Classic Products Foundation Vent Covers are the best made in the USA.  This is the ONLY high end foundation vent cover in the marketplace.  They are Functional Works of Art.  They look great and offer a beautifully designed blocking plate along with a handsome 3-dimensional design in our 3 Styles; Arts and Crafts, Louis XIV Style and Empire Style.  They are designed to be installed from outside the foundation so you don’t have to go inside the crawl space.  The decorative grille can also be removed each fall and the blocking plate inserted and the grille put back over top all in a matter of minutes from the outside.

Arts and Crafts Style Foundation Vent Cover

French Style Louis XIV Foundation Vent Cover

Empire Style Foundation Vent Cover

Made to order, our Foundation Vent Cover Kit consists of two separate parts: the frame, which is attached to the foundation, and the grille, which is removable. Both are cast from an exterior grade urethane resin that won’t rot, rust, corrode or grow mold.

Foundation Vent Cover Accessories – Our full foundation vent cover assembly kit includes a frame, blocking plate, mesh screen, mounting hardware and the decorative foundation vent cover.

3.  Foundations that have been encapsulated need to cover the unused foundation ports.

If you have your crawl space encapsulated,  this is the blacking plate or something similarly unattractive, is what you will get.

Alternative Blocking Plate.

Beaux-Arts Classic Products Foundations Vent Covers are made exclusively for foundations and crawl spaces. It fits in the standard 16” X 8” concrete block crawl space vent opening you’ll see on the foundation of many homes.  In the case of foundations which have been encapsulated the ports still need to be covered.  This is an installation with full encapsulation.

French Style Louis XIV Foundation Vent Cover Kit