I'm thinking of having a go at knocking up some MDF covers for my radiators as they looks shit all bare

But I need inspiration - so show me what you got

 

No? Okay then

 

took me 10mins to find it but heres one

http://www.avforums.com/forums/showt...Radiator+cover

 

Thanks, but that is a GASH looking rad cover (IMO)

 

its the only one ive ever seen

mines covered with errr white paint

 

googled radiator covers and found this

 

they will kill the heat, don't do it!

 

Red16 - thats the sort of thing (I too googled it, but wanted to see actual ones in actual peeps homes kinda thing) but my rad is half that size.....

brs - well I thought that, but I have two rads in my living room - one I want to put a cover on (it's on the exposed wall beneath the window and just looks a bit gash lol) and the other is behind the sofa's so you want really see it, so I think I'd still get good enough heat (I hope anyway )

 

They look WORSE than the rads FACT!

 

Here's the rad I wanna cover - looks a bit poo don't it

 

Thrush
ok i'll let you off

 

looks ok........ but then agen i am a plummer

 

i would not do it not the most efficent way of heat distribution imo.

 

Rad covers are the biggest waste of time in the winter.

Radiators do not actually radiate very much heat at all, they are actualy convectors and by covering the top of them with anything you are practically defeating the purpose of them.

Anyone that had rads covers..........take them off and see how much hotter the house gets..

 

I was thinking of instead of solid wood at the top, cutting out the centre and putting a grille there, so hot air can still rise out the top. Gaps at the bottom to let air in (circulation) and grilles on the front (let the heat escape)

It's just it looks fucking rubbish like it does in my pic

 

Painted same colour as wall would look better in my opinion

 

It pretty much is (even tho the pic shows it as somewhat lighter)

 

I can't see the problem, nice Tv/Audio set up though!

 

Thanks

It's just when you walk into that room, thats the opposite wall so thats the first thing you see, even from the front door straight through you see that radiator, and I personally think it looks gash...

A nice subtle radiator cover, preferrably in beech or similar finish to match the speakers, av unit etc, I think would "tone it down" somewhat, and help it blend in, other than it just looking like, well, a radiator hanging off a wall.....

 

You can get all sorts of radiators to blend in if you've got some money to put into it. Or paint a pattern/motif of some sort to take the focus off it being a radiator.

 

Certianly don't want to be spending money on radiators..... Just wanted to spend Ł20-Ł30 on buying or building a rad cover really....

 

I would have considered underfloor heating before I fitted my laminate, but didnt think @ the time

 

I didn't lay mine, and am I gonna rip it all up and install under floor heating? Am I fuck

 

now after seeing, wouldn't say it looks wrong, out of place etc

 

Meh.... Just think it could do with hiding is all.... Looks to me like a radiator hung on a wall, which has been painted to blend in but doesn't

 

Thats 1500 x 900 and was the biggest I could find at the time. I dont think it would be high enough for you though. And it was Ł50.

Edit to add: It still wasnt big enough and i thought it looked crap so i went for a brushed stainless rad in its place

 

Take it down to your local bodyshop and have it sprayed, ST orange maybe?

 

You'd do it cheap wouldn't ya Coltrane!

 

Move the pot plant about a foot to the right

 

I expect i could sort something.

Ive been meaning to paint the heater cover in my room for ages, I did the workshop fridge door the other month, that looks pretty cool.

 

christ almighty its a radiator in a house...hardly out of the ordinary eh!!

stupid idea to cover it with a large box then pay more on bills as the room gets colder.

if you have to do something then why not paint it the same colour as the wall?
or buy camouflage paint

 

or just remove it

 

Ok a few folk have mentioned this now, and I wasn;t gonna say anything, but are u all serious? My room definitely wasn't colder. The heat is still there. Do you really think the heat disappears just because you have a cover over it?

 

my folks house has shelves above all the radiators.......that would explain why the place is so cold all the time

 

the heat could be retained within the wood or whatever boxes it off. i doubt that its just as hot as before!!

 

It is as hot as before. I had room thermometers to check because I had loads of folk telling me it would be colder. The only thing might be that it uses more gas to keep the heat the same. They are more vent than they are wood and if you stand in front of it you can feel the heat coming out.
If anything the heat is better distributed round the room as it comes out the front instead of the top

 

We used to knock them out when it was quiet in the workshop. I fucking hate the things. Just look so shit and pointless.

 

Move the telly into the corner and all your gubbins will cover it up!!

OR buy some long curtains for the small window.

 

1) It IS the same colour as the wall, just don't look it in the pic (I did already say that, but peeps don't read

2) I ain't removing it as I quite like not shivvering

3) I ain't changing it either. Stainless/chrome/designer rad would look stupid in there as I haven't got any other stainless/chrome/designer stuff...

4) I ain't moving the TV, it took me ages to get everythingin a position so I could get the best possible soundstage for music and surround sound film playback, I certainly ain't putting the TV in the corner Not to mention the bench it sits on is 1.5m wide - think it might stickout into the room a bit?

5) Don't want curtains for the window, hence why there is a blind there. Covering the window and rad with curtains is not only a stupid idea (material draped over a hot radiator ) but all I will see then is curtains across the whole wall

Might aswell just leave it as is I guess.....

 

6) move