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I made a hole!
Well, technically the hole was already there and I just uncovered it. Now I have to work out what to do with a big hole in the floor of my wardrobe. It's the old return air duct from long dead ducted heating, and it was a pain to pull out - it started off well with just undoing some screws, but one side was nailed down, then had the strip for the carpet nailed on top as well.
I'm thinking probably a piece of MDF and a carpet mat on top, and maybe something like corflute or thin plastic taped over the hole in the back wall, given it is not very visible (and the wall is masonite, not plaster). For now it just has the ugly space-stealing chipboard box cover back over the top of it to make sure Mr Woof does not use it as an excape route, but it would be nice to have that bit of space useable.
May as well do it properly - pull the grill and marine ply / masonite on the back section, put some cross braces from the underside and plonk a cut piece in the hole - you don't want anything floating over a void, that's how people fall in things.
As it is in a wardrobe no one should be falling into it, although it could potentially form the basis of a pit trap for the boogeyman.
Trying to brace and finish everything properly seems way more effort that it is worth, given both the lack of visibility and the generally poor state of the finish in the house in general. If I can find enough effort to do that sort of work I'll start with filling the cracks in the walls from when the place was re-stumped a few years ago.
eh, two bits of wood fitting in the hole screwed in, hole mostly filled. Actually found this dude who's kinda doing what I recommend until the wheels come off with the water putty yeah don't' do that bit. do about 1:53 - 3:07 ish. and it doesn't have to be round. Also means you won't have a step from the MDF on the floor.