RAB Specialist Engineers: AIr intake screens

How to measure your opening for an air intake screen?

It is not a difficult task. Anyone with a tape measure and a pencil can provide sufficient details for an air intake screen to be quoted within 24 hours. .

There are no complex templates because the basic principle is always the same.

You have an air intake opening that you want to fit an air intake screen to. It might be square, rectangular, trapezoidal or any other shape that you can think of.

For this example we will measure a trapezoidal opening. It looks complicated but with a manufacturing base that says "If you can draw it we can make it" the dimensions are simple to take:

Measure the following
A to B
A to D
B to C
D to C.
Finally measure the distance between line AB and line DC

This will give you the internal dimensions of the opening which should have a framework around it. Measure the width of the framework and you have all of the dimensions you need.

A quick hand drawn sketch of the shape and a picture finish off the survey.

If you have a vee coil, take a picture and then measure the external dimension of the framework plus the internal dimension of the coil itself. This will give us sufficient information to submit a quotation for your new air intake screen.

The picture below shows a Kanya Framed air intake screen mounted on galvanised folded steel runners.

Louvres, cooling towers, condensers, dry air coolers etc. can be easily quoted with some outline dimensions and, once you like the price, one of the team will attend site to double check the measurements before we manufacture your new air intake screen.