DIY Boxing In Ductwork | Covering Up UGLY Ducts In My House (EASY)

hey guys so I'm just sitting in my attic right now I have really been wanting to get more into home Runners and more DIY and kind of just doing it myself I've been learning from my uncle and I've learned from my dad yesterday I was just practicing boxing in some pipes because we're renovating part of the basement but I'm gonna try and box this duct in the Attic the lighting in here is upstairs there's actually four of these ducts in the Attic but I'm going to start with this one because it's the smallest and like the easiest to tackle I didn't do a really good job of explaining while I was doing it because I'm still learning myself but I figured the easiest thing to do because this one was laying on the floor and it was against the wall we only needed to two sides of a frame so I started with the front piece that would be the easiest the floor and wall were a little bit uneven in some parts so I thought the most accurate thing for me to do would be to perfectly measure the front piece build that out start with the long pieces and then attach my Crossway pieces make sure that fits perfectly and then I would build one to go across kind of like a tabletop so I started with the front piece and I used for this two by threes and then just smaller pieces of cut two by threes for the Crossways and I think two by twos would have been great with two by threes were cheaper so that's just what I bought so one side of the framing is done and I wrestled with it a bit but hopefully it'll work and I'll finish it tomorrow so it's day two yesterday I got half the frame done one side done so obviously I didn't put it in place yet because I want to build the other side first but probably gonna put it 16 inches away from the wall so I'm just going to measure that out again um yeah before I do the other side I just want to re-measure everything so I don't mess up because that will suck if I build out the whole piece and then they don't fit I have cut my pieces for the top part of this I'm basically going to put it so it's under the plug I just have to shimmy it in there but it's gonna be a perfect fit to do it like an inch less than this one for some reason so it's good that I measured again and didn't make them the same size because then I would have made the whole like frame piece and it wouldn't have fit I was told to use the stud finder to see and so far I'm not really a big fan of it because I don't know if it's accurate but the places that I went over yesterday and today it seems like there's a stud there I have marked so just so I don't put these pieces in the same spot because then I have a problem then I can't drill it into the wall at all so I'm gonna try and avoid those so I'm gonna measure them on my main piece here it has been screwed to the floor it has been screwed together which I did first and now it's the Moment of Truth screwing it into the wall um I keep tracking that it's level just in case like anything slipped it out of place one side I'm going to need to put shims on near the plug here there's a bit of a gap so I'm just gonna like test with shims because I need to put one here according to the stud finders perfectly snug so I'm gonna put the thickest most supported part if I'm wrong that's gonna suck yes so when I initially film myself doing my frame and stuff it was my first time really doing it on my own and I was kind of figuring it out as I went so I didn't do a great job explaining the only reason I didn't box it in full yet is because my dad said he has some wood for me so I think I'm gonna wait for that then I'm gonna put the trim back on the corners that I pulled off then I'll probably put some shelves or a shelf over it and then maybe put some like books or something just make it like cute as possible because there's not much you can do with such a low space in terms of the frame my plan worked it's all secure there I built that front piece first got it into the floor and then I did the top piece and now it's all secure and ready to be covered up