It looks like a soffit for something. I'm not sure what, maybe some MEP ducts or something? But this is single home construction. They probably just whatever the heck they wanted. I'd be surprised if it was related to the chimney, though to honest, I can't tell where the second photo was taken in relation to the first. I also don't have your house's floorplans (which I'm not sure you have, either). The surest way to know what it's covering is to uncover whatever's underneath! But I'm sure you're already thinking that!
Yeah, now that I look at it more closely, it looks like it is HVAC related. The weirdness seems to come from the fact that they had to go around the chimney structure. I guess it has to stay...which is going to make it interesting to move the door to the room.Weird soffits have a tendency to cover HVAC or plumbing that was added later, or was too hard to move when finishing a previously unfinished space.
Couple of the neighbors have the medium sized one. One guy has the Yukon. The large Yukon will fit normal cut firewood but it chews through wood super fast. The upside is you don’t get a bunch of smoke in the face. Downside is they aren’t cheap.
Not necessarily. They are trunk lines running to different parts of the house. I built two such soffits when I finished my basement, and I only have a vent in one of them.Wouldn’t hvac ducting like that have some grates into the room?
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