How to hide or decorate the battery with your own hands [decoupage, painting, grilles and screens on the radiator]

Not always the battery fits into a new design room. Hide the radiator panels or, on the contrary, turn them into a stylish interior element in several ways.

Painting

Visually hide the batteries or, on the contrary, make them an emphasis of the interior will help painting.

High quality painting can be achieved by observing a certain sequence of work:

1. Primary treatment . Before applying a new layer of paint, the surface of the battery needs to be carefully cleaned. For this, the radiator is treated with a special tool dissolving paint, scrape the old coating with a knife and carefully cleaned with sandpaper. Then, with the help of brushes, they are applied to the metal degreaser and primer.

Attention: the more carefully the battery is cleaned, the better the new layer of paint will be held.

1. Coloring . The quality of the final result of painting depends on several points. Firstly, only anti-corrosion paints are selected for staining, withstanding the temperature mode to + 80c. Most often for painting, quick-drying water-free paints, acrylic and alkyd enamels with a note "for radiators" are used. Only cold batteries are painted, since the paint can be changed on a hot metal. The paint is applied from top to bottom, not passing the inner surface of the radiator. For a better staining in particularly difficult places use special curved brushes on long handles.

ATTENTION: Before painting, do not forget to cover the surface of the floor under the battery and the walls around it with cellophane or old newspapers. This will help avoid additional trouble to eliminate paint spots. It is also important to remember that work on staining is carried out only in well-ventilated rooms.

Decoupage

The selection and sticking drawings on the restored surface helps not just update the battery, but make it a stylish element of the room interior.

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When complying with certain rules, the renewal of the battery in the decoupage technique will not be much difficulty:

1. We select materials . Multilayer napkins with drawings, a wide brush, glue, transparent varnish will be needed for work.
2. Prepare the surface . The battery is necessarily washed with a detergent, remove the unstable elements of the paint, cleaned with sandpaper. You can start the decor with napkins only after complete battery drying.
3. Apply decor. From the selected napkins, we carefully cut out the drawing, we remove the lower layers of the napkin and, flushing the fragment with glue, press it to the surface of the battery. Clean dry brush remove air bubbles from under the glued napkin.
4. The final stage . Protect the battery decor will help with a special varnish for batteries.

Lattices and screens

Flat, mounted, in the form of a box, metal, wooden, plastic screens will help to quickly reorganize batteries. Screens and lattices protect radiators from dust and prevent possible accidents when falling near the battery.

IMPORTANT: Save the natural heat exchange in the room can be sense with a sufficient number of holes on the surface of the decorative screen.

Consider the easiest way to decorate the battery is the use of a lattice shield.

Algorithm of actions:

1. We prepare materials:

• DSP plates (in color Harmonizing with the interior);
• metal grid;
• fasteners (dowels, brackets, screws, corners);
• hacksaw wood and metal;
• glue, sandpaper.

  

1. Remove the measurements. We measure the height and width of the radiator. Indicators increase by 5 and 10 cm, respectively. The battery depth rate increases by 2.5 cm.
2. I cut the details of the shield . By standards width and height cut a piece of metal mesh. The elements of the future frame framing the mesh are cut from the MDF plates. Four layers for the facade and four for the lid. All staks are cut at an angle of 45 ° C and alternate sandpaper.
3. We collect shield . Four facade straps connect with each other, we wash with glue and fix the self-drawing. We also collect a frame of the lid. The finished parts connect with each other with the help of the corners, on the inside, fix the cut-cut grid.
4. Mount the shield . The easiest is the finished shield to lock on the wall with hooks dowels. To do this, the shield is attached to the wall and mark the place where it will hang. At these points, holes are made and dubed dowels with hooks, which will hang in the box.

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The variety of battery masking methods allows you to choose the easiest and most affordable in the execution that is suitable for an existing interior.

How to hide or decorate the battery with your own hands: decoupage, painting, grilles and screens on the radiator (1 video)

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