How to hide a heating battery - battery masking (+ photos)

Communication systems, plumbing, heating and ventilation, while remaining visible, in rare cases can fit into the overall interior of a dwelling. Therefore, during repairs, it is often necessary to find out how to make pipes, batteries, taps less visible, and that they perform their functions.

What you need to know

There are many options for hiding a radiator. You can, of course, purchase designer radiators, custom-made and suitable for a particular style. But the main disadvantage of such a heater is a very high price.

It is inconvenient to sew up batteries with drywall, for example, because in case of an accident or a routine inspection you will have to perform a complex disassembly.

Making a drywall screen

In this article, several options have been suggested for helping inexpensively and beautifully arrange a heating radiator in any room.

However, while decorating, you should not forget about the direct purpose of the heating system, which first of all should warm up the dwelling, and not only attract attention with its original and stylish design. Therefore, when considering how to hide a battery in a room, there are several important aspects to consider:

1. Convection currents should not have obstacles in their path. This will ensure uniform heating of the room and will not allow windows to sweat.
2. Threaded connections and radiators must be in the access zone; for this, when making a decorative construction, a window or removable elements should be provided (for example, a small door with hinges).
3. The thermal head, valve and other adjustment parts of the system must be available for repair work.

The battery must be accessible

The hinged screen

Most A popular way to decorate batteries is a hinged screen or grille. Such constructions are usually made of metal and have several advantages:

• Easy to install: the hinged screen is hung on the radiator.
• The heat exchange is not disturbed.
• Grilles often have rounded corners, making them safe.

Hinged screen

When choosing a hinged structure, you should know that they There are two types: for one-sided and two-sided pipe liner. Mounted screens can be made independently.

Glass screens

Glass screen

Modern interior styles require more original solutions when masking the heating system. For example, you can try to install glass screens made of thick refractory glass. They are often decorated with photo printing, stained glass patterns and images. Screens from glass in design workshops are on sale and cost expensive. Elegant designs are very easy to install. They are mounted on special screw holders, equipped with elastic pads that protect the glass surface. To fix the screen, you need to drill a few holes in the wall.

The variety of screens is very large. The advantage of the design is their originality, ease of installation and ease of operation. They choose screens in accordance with the size of radiators, and their appearance depends only on the owner’s imagination and his financial capabilities.

Framework of wooden bars

Such a screen can be made independently

Wooden frames With which, for example, the battery under the window is closed, it looks great in any interior. Especially harmoniously they look in the room, furnished with wooden furniture. The advantages of wooden decorations are that they can be used as racks for household utensils or souvenirs, as stands, tables, low structures are used as benches. An additional use of the frame depends on its height and the area of ​​the horizontal surface. The appearance of such a decoration is completely dependent on the owner's imagination and the level of his skill.

The work algorithm consists in performing the following actions:

• It is necessary to take measurements carefully.
• Then you need to cut the bars in size.
• Assemble the thin-timber frame (remember that the frame must be strong).
• Then you need to tangle the base with cotton tape or slats.
• The finished construction is varnished.

Original ideas

For those who do not like to follow the standards, experts offer a number of original solutions. For example, you can close the battery frame from the picture or install blinds. You can build a kind of fireplace from the drywall or screen. Consider several options.

Screen-fireplace

1. The picture frame is covered with fabric or wallpaper to match the walls .Mounted homemade design as a normal screen.
2. To hang the blinds, you need to make a metal frame over the batteries, on which suitable blinds are mounted.
3. Fireplaces decorate the rooms made in any style. To make the fireplace you need to prepare:

• mesh screen;
• several picture frames;
• fasteners: screws, screws (several pieces).

A few highlights

The screen can be harmoniously combined with the interior

First you need choose the most effective way of plating, hiding as much as possible all the pipes and taps, suitable for the style of the interior of the room and having a neat appearance. In order for the construction to last for a long time, the following points should be taken into account:

• reliability, durability and durability of the heating system (if at this point any doubts arise, it is better to construct a collapsible casing);
• a counter, tap, automatic and other heat or pressure regulators should be freely available;
• architecture and geometry of the system will affect the shape of the masking panels and screens, you may need to design the box.

The plating of pipes and batteries

The scheme of the plasterboard screen

All work is carried out according to the sketch, and best of all, the exact scheme of the future structure: frame, box or screen.

1. First of all, you should prepare the necessary tools and materials, as well as fasteners. To work with metal racks and profiles will require a drill, screwdriver, screws, screws or bolts. Lightweight materials are assembled and fastened with dowels, screws, a hacksaw and a drill. In any case, a screwdriver is useful.
2. Next, you should measure the surface of the wall for the manufacture of the frame, which is desirable to do a little more than the resulting measurements. This will ensure normal air circulation.
3. For liquid nails, a guide is attached to the floor along the wall. Parallel to her on the wall, a little above the pipes that need to be disguised, the same strap is attached.
4. Profile pieces are inserted into the lower guide and secured with screws. The distance between them is about 35 cm. For them, for the strength of the frame, another guide is mounted.
5. The same actions are performed for the guide on the wall. The ends of the upper profiles are attached to the lower profiles. The basis is made.
6. Next, all that remains is to sheathe the skeleton with the prepared material, observing the basic rules of access to the heat and pressure regulators.

We advise you to familiarize yourself with:

• how to get the air out of the batteries correctly;
• do-it-yourself bathroom acrylic restoration.

Video

See how the finished screen for the battery is assembled:

A cozy sofa above the battery

Frosted glass screens

Homemade fabric screen

The screen grid

Looks great wooden screens

Convection holes must be provided

Metal screens on radiators

From straw

From rattan

Frosted glass

Screen as an element of decor

White open screen