Protective and decorative grille for heating radiator

2024 Author: Erin Ralphs | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-19 11:42

To maintain a single style in the interior, protective screens for heating devices are used, suitable for the material of manufacture. These decorative elements perfectly mask the devices of the heating system, giving the interior decoration of the room a finished look. In residential premises, decorative grilles on heating radiators are usually installed for aesthetic purposes. In he alth, sports, educational and other public institutions, radiators are closed to ensure the safety of adults and children.

Varieties

According to the design features, decorative grilles for heating radiators are divided into several main types:

• Grates made in the form of an attached box, used when the radiator installation site is completely concealed.
• Hingers equipped with a cover, used when cast ironheaters protrude from under the windowsill.
• Hinged devices without a cover, allowing you to close the cast-iron radiators, which are located under the windowsill.
• Flat screens, most often they are used to protect heaters located in niches.

Material of production

According to the material of manufacture, protective grilles for heating radiators can be divided into the following types:

• wooden;
• metal;
• MDF gratings;
• plastic;
• glass.

Wooden Screens

For the production of decorative gratings, wood is very often used, since this material gives these structures an attractive appearance. In most cases, wooden gratings are made by hand, since their production does not require specialized equipment. For greater attractiveness, the finished structure is impregnated with stain, and then painted or varnished.

Wooden grates are the most expensive, but the most aesthetic. The handiwork of master cabinetmakers is highly valued, for this reason these products are considered an expensive pleasure. Wicker decorative designs look great, which bend perfectly, they can be used to create curvilinear shapes.

Metal products

This design option is in most cases made of a thin metal box, painted in light colors. Grilles for radiatorsmetal heating systems are simple and primitive in design, which explains their low cost. At the same time, these devices fully fulfill their functional purpose.

The metal grating is installed by hanging, no special skills are required to install it. More beautiful and expensive metal grilles for heating radiators (photo below) are made of stainless steel. Through perforation, the product is given an elegant look. The ornate pattern will decorate any office space or room. But not every interior can organically fit these protective structural elements. Metal gratings are easy to install on radiators, they are simply hung on radiators.

MDF gratings

These designs, in comparison with screens made of natural wood, are resistant to temperature changes and evaporation. In this regard, these accessories will serve for many years without the need for refurbishment.

With the help of programmable machines, absolutely any sketch of a drawing can be reproduced with maximum accuracy. To order, according to the client's sketch, it is possible to produce an exclusive decorative grille for a heater from MDF board.

Plastic devices

The plastic grate for a heating radiator is a budget solution, which has not found much demand among domestic consumers. However, despite this, the cost of such products is relatively low. Plastic structures exposed to high temperatures are subject to deformation.

Heat-resistant glass grids

Glass grilles for heating radiators (photo below) are extremely rare on sale and are practically not popular. In this case, the domestic buyer is frightened off by a prejudiced opinion about the strength of glass structures, as well as the high cost of these products.

At the same time, decorative grilles made of tempered heat-resistant frosted glass not only look great, but, in addition, are durable and strong.

Destination

The heating radiator is an exclusively functional, “technical” item. As a rule, manufacturers do not even think about its aesthetics. In this regard, in an interior with an exquisite, non-standard design, open heating devices do not look the best. In this case, the radiator grill is the ideal solution. With its help, you will get several tasks at the same time:

• emphasize your exquisite taste;
• close the radiators, designing them in the style of the interior;
• ensure the safe use of the heater - the protective grill on the heating radiator will make it impossible to directly access the heater. This is especially important if there are kids in the house - if the radiators are closed, it will be impossible to get burned on them.

How to choose?

The instructions for choosing decorative grilles for a radiator are quite simple - you need to make sure that this design matches the parameters of your heaters and from an aesthetic point of view you are completely satisfied.

When choosing grilles for heating radiators, dimensions must be taken into account first of all, otherwise installation problems may arise. The fact is that in such structural elements there are special holes for pipelines, which must match the configuration of the heater.

Make recommendations

It is very easy to make a decorative protective device for a heater yourself. To do this, you need to decide how you imagine the finished product, decide on the overall dimensions and choose the best material.

It is advisable if the grate on the heating radiator will be made of materials that are easy to process. For example, three-layer plywood, it can be used to build a beautiful screen for decorating heating appliances.

To do this, you need to saw off a sheet of plywood of a suitable size, then draw patterns on it and make appropriate cuts along the contour. After that, the plywood blank is impregnated with stain and covered with paint or varnish.