Small Furnace Repair Question

[Scouzer]

I was at my dad's today while he is out of town and I noticed the hose between the furnace and the humidifier has broken. He doesn't use the humidifier anyway, but it's making the furnace pretty inefficient as you can imagine.

My question is: Since the humidifier isn't used anyway, would it be best to simply barricade the hose holes, or to replace the hose?

Pictures: http://imgur.com/a/7aPLC

 

[FoBoT]

if you don't want to fix the humidifier, just put a plastic garbage bag over the holes and tape/tie them down to minimize leakages

 

[bignateyk]

Just duct tape the shit out of it

 

[Braznor]

Whatever works best to burn the victim's corpses more efficiently I guess.

 

[Red Squirrel]

If it's not used, just remove it completely, and patch the ductwork. You can use foil paper (noisy) or find some duct metal and just use self taping screws. Cover the seams with duct tape (aluninium tape, not actual "duck tape").

 

[spidey07]

Just duct tape the shit out of it

For once, duct tape is the true intended purpose of duct tape here. If you want to get fancy you could get some flat duct material and duct tape that to cover up the hole.

 

[Red Squirrel]

For once, duct tape is the true intended purpose of duct tape here. If you want to get fancy you could get some flat duct material and duct tape that to cover up the hole.

Make sure it's aluminium duct tape (or whatever material that would typically be used but pretty sure it's aluminium). As crazy as it sounds, standard duct tape is not actually for ducts.

Bad
(it will just fall off over time from the heat)

Good.

 

[spidey07]

Yeah, that aluminum tape is the shit. I like your idea of some screws for more security, probably keep the vibration/noise down as well.

 

[edro]

Most hardware stores have small pieces of sheet metal.
I would cover the holes with sheet metal and screws, then cover the seams with aluminum duct tape.
It looks like you have 2 large holes to cover (the metal duct to the right of the humidifier and the duct connected to the humidifier).

Oh yeah, and remove the humidifier completely.