Screen for heating radiator with their own hands

Today, many, making repairs, leave old cast iron heating radiators that are well held heat, but do not always fit into the modern interior. In this case, the screens for radiators will help to correct the situation.

Variations on this topic There are a great set. You can, having studied the range of building stores, buy a radiator screen. And you can make it with your own hands, showing fantasy, and thereby save money.

Basic requirements that must match the heating radiator screen

1. The screen should serve as an element of the decor and combine with the surrounding.
2. The screen material must have certain heat-conducting properties, i.e. must pass heat from the battery to the room.

What are the decorative screens for radiators

1. Metal.
2. Wooden.
3. Fabric.
4. Others.

Metal screens for heating radiators

The solid metal surface of the screen is heated from the battery, and then part of the heat is transported into the living room. However, part of the heat is lost. The best option is the screen with a carved or mesh metal surface. But, such decorative elements are better to acquire ready.

Wooden decorative screens for heating radiators

Wood has excellent heat-conducting qualities. From it you can make a screen in the form of a decorative box, a shield or even the couch with the doors. But here it will be better if the front side is not solid. Perforation in a solid piece of wood or a grill of wooden planks is a more acceptable solution that provides free access of heat flows from the register to the room.

Fabric decorative screens for radiators

This is an alternative version of the decorative screen, which is easy to build and personally. Moreover, this case is an unlimited space for the flight of fantasy. The canvas can be decorated with embroidery, appliqué, painting, etc. The main thing is to choose the right fabric. It should be durable, but not too dense, so as not to prevent the outflow of warm air. Such a tissue screen is easy to pull onto a wooden frame, which then hangs on pre-cooked hooks. And you can simply pull the canvas from the window sill to the floor, fixing the edge by the construction stapler, small carnations, etc. From the fabric you can also sew the original case in the form of funny animals, which is just enough to wear on the battery. Pictures Look at the Internet. And, again, choose the right fabric for such products, otherwise the battery will warm the case, not the air in your room.

Other screens for heating radiators

Actually, to create decorative screens, you can use a wide variety of and most unexpected materials. The basic principle is: from wooden planks (or any other), a frame is made, which can be subsequently suspended on the cooked pre-fastening in the wall above the radiator. And the front side of the screen is made from the lured material and attached to the frame. The easiest way to make a lattice from some slats, ribbons, PVC bands, chipboard and other materials. Here you can use remnants from repair work. If the material is aesthetic in itself, then such a grid can be left without finishing. If the planks are not very beautiful, they can be painted in tone to the surrounding subjects or make multi-colored (this is a matter of taste and your preferences).

Production of the screen for heating radiator with your own hands (one of the options)

Materials and tools required for manufacture

1. List of chipboard (or trimming required size).
2. Furniture finishing edge with thermal adhesive layer on the back. The length of the edge necessary to create a lattice (L) is calculated by the formula L \u003d (A * B * 1.3) / C, where A is the length of the screen, B - the screen width, C - the edge width.
3. Metal corners and tie screws (or other mounts).
4. Furniture Stapler with brackets (or small cloves with a hammer).
5. Iron.
6. A sharp knife.
7. Sandpaper.

Manufacturing technology

1. Make the necessary measurements and markup of the location of the screen on the wall. Mark the places of future fasteners to place the screen.
2. Make a schematic drawing of the future product. There is no need to be a great drawer. It is enough to make a drawing, understandable to you personally with the application of all the necessary sizes.
3. Make out of the chipboard of the frame wall. This operation, by the way, can be entrusted with specialists in the joinery workshop. Alternatively, you can buy in such workshops or in building stores already ready-made details of suitable sizes.
4. Connect them between themselves using metal corners and tightening screws (the connection method may be different).
5. Make a grid of the edge, fixing it on the frame with a furniture stapler or small carnations. So that the lattice holes are the same sizes, make pre-markup on the frame or cut the blank-template from chipboard or cardboard.
6. Upon completion of the lattice weaving process, warm it with iron at a temperature of 150-200 ° C with the front side. At the same time, heated glue connects the lattice bar in the crossing places, attaching more stiffness.
7. The same edge is separated by the end parts of the frame. To do this, attaching the edge to the end, mark it with an iron.
8. Cut the protruding edge edges with a knife.
9. Sharp edges Stick up with sandpaper.
10. If the screen is designed to locate closely between the windowsill and the floor, then insert it, and you can read the task made. If, initially implied a suspension screen, then several more actions should be made.
11. Make in the frame of the excavation in places where it should dock with heating pipes. In the consequence, the screen "dresses" on pipes with such peculiar grooves.
12. In places above the radiator, where the position of fasteners is placed, screw the metal corners on both sides.
13. Generate the edges of the corners by 10 mm upwards, thus building peculiar hooks to which the screen will be suspended.

Everything! Your decorative screen is ready. You can admire!