DIY heating battery screen. Battery design in the bathroom

With your own hands: how to make a screen on a heating battery

Before choosing a screen on the heating battery, you need to decide where to install it. If it is intended for the nursery, then you can purchase a screen, the surface of which is covered with drawings, letters, etc. D. In this case, you can beautifully decorate the interior of the room. For such rooms, glass screens are not suitable at all, since there is a chance of their breakdown or receiving cuts by children on fragments.

However, if the rooms are not warm enough, and it is not clear why batteries do not warm well in the apartment, then you should definitely not purchase lattices that have small, rare holes, since in this case the warm air will be strongly lingered inside the screen.

Such screens are suitable for batteries only if the devices are heated very much

At the same time, it is important that the material of their manufacture would not serve wood or plastic, since they will either deform or make a specific smell

The location of the batteries should also be taken into account. If they are in a niche, then you can purchase a regular panel. If their location on the wall, then it is better to buy a grill that will close all its sides. At the same time, it is worth immediately providing how to clean the surface of the radiator or pull the air from it.

You also need to consider how beautiful and correctly the screen will fit into the interior of the room. If the room where it is installed is small, preference should be given to a light product. If you purchase a massive screen, then in the subsequent of it it will be possible to make an additional shelf or stand.

DIY battery screen

If you buy a screen on the battery is not possible, then it can be done with your own hand, while the difficulties should not arise. To make the screen on the battery, it will require drywall, since it is an excellent material for these purposes.

You will also need a metal profile for assembling the frame (niches). Of the tools for such work, you will need: corner grinder, electric screwdriver, hacksaw on drywall and a peorator with boors. If the pedorator is not at hand, then it can easily replace the shock drill.

As it already became clear, exclusively the side walls of the niche are collected from drywall and profile. But as the most decorative screen on the battery, it is better to use thin wooden strips or a furniture edge, which is screwed with screws to the assembled frame made of metal profile and drywall.

Be sure to install the latter before installing the latter (GCL) its surface is impregnated with a polymer emulsion or other suitable mastic. Well, about the rest of the ways to hide the battery, you can read in the next article.

A little about heat engineering and bars on batteries

Even if you need gratings for radiators to decorate, do not forget that the batteries should heat the room. Any screen reduces heat transfer, even the most openwork and thin. Another question is that one will lower the amount of heat transferred by 10-15%, and the other by all 60% or even more. It is unlikely that you will want to sit in a beautiful, but cold room, so when choosing a decorative lattice, you need to take into account how warm.

The principle of heat transfer from a heating radiator without a lattice is shown in the figure. The main idea is that the air should flow from below, pass along the battery, heat up, go up. So our heating works. When choosing a lattice or screen, we must remember this. For normal air circulation, it is necessary that there is a gap below, and at the top. there is no cover. In extreme cases, the lid should have a large area.

A good option. large holes allow you to freely move air

But if you look at many of the decorative grilles, you can immediately say that the room will be cold. Especially this suffers from gratings on heating radiators in the form of a box that have walls from all sides. If they are very openwork, as in the photo above, there is no particular trouble, but if they are made of an array of wood (as in the photo below), almost without penetration or with minimal holes, be prepared for inefficiency of heating.

On top of the battery is closed by a solid layer of wood without holes

Tree, of course aesthetic material, but has a high heat capacity. Until the wood is warming up, it will be cold indoors. And since the array is above the radiator and there are no holes for circulation, the radiator under such a grate will be hot, but the room will be cold.

Preparation of materials and tools

Since making a screen on a battery made of woody stove is easiest, it is worth choosing this particular option. Using step.by.step instructions, you can easily and quickly make a decorative panel with your own hands.

Before starting work, you need to stock up on the following materials:

• sheet of wood.fiber plate;
• foil or metal sheet (it is fixed on the wall behind the battery so that heat is reflected);
• finely or medium-based mesh;
• screws 4 cm;
• screws;
• nails;
• Construction brackets;
• metal corners;
• the edge for the finish of the cuts on an adhesive basis;
• The paper is sandpaper.
• hacksaw for wood;
• hacksaw for cutting metal;
• drill with drills of different diameters;
• Construction Stapler;
• Disk saw;
• countersink.

How to do it?

Frame made of wood.fiber slab with a metal lattice filling

The product is a simple design in the form of a tripartite box with a lid. As the basis of the front and lateral panels, a metal mesh enclosed in a frame made of wood-beam plate is used. Such a decorative screen looks aesthetically pleasing, but does not reduce the heat transfer of the radiator.

The creation process consists in preliminary marking of the canvas, cutting parts, subsequent assembly and fixing of elements. If necessary, the finished product can be decorated in accordance with the design of the room in which the screen will be installed.

Before the installation of the box, you need to install on the wall, to which the battery is attached, a metal or foil sheet to reduce heat loss.

Boxes, lattices and screens for heating radiators

The box completely blocks all streams and heating is ineffective. The exception is the option of manufacturing in accordance with the requirements:

• The box does not have a lower bar and hangs at a distance from the floor;
• In the upper part there are holes for air output;
• The area of ​​the openings on the front panel is larger than the remaining body of the material.

Such a box is easy to make with your own hands with the ability to work with metal. You can make a drywall design, taking fireproof sheets and treating them with a primer. Details are made in size of a cast.iron radiator:

Facial screens are sold in the store. They are made of metal and slightly reduce heating. The heating radiator is closed and has an aesthetic appearance.

When the battery is located in the niche, it is convenient to make gratings with your own hands with your own hands. The easiest option is narrow wooden rails. They are installed at a great distance from each other. The area of ​​infrared radiation decreases slightly. The convection flow circulates freely. The room is warm and the radiator is beautifully disguised.

The screen made of matte glass with a beautiful pattern looks stylish. He can simulate a fireplace and just decorate the room with his pattern. The infrared radiation area is completely closed and half the heat flow is lost.

Attention! Do not use plastic for creating a box and screen. When heated, it emits harmful substances and is quickly destroyed

Day 3

And the last third final day. Today we finally decorate (old) battery.

We take a regular sponge for washing dishes, dip in paint, and as if we wipe the battery

We especially pay attention to curls, we are impregnated most of the paint. Turn on fantasy, someone will want more gold, someone less

After the finish, we wait until everything dries, this is what we did. I think it’s great, write your Комментарии и мнения владельцев.

So, if there are 350 (for the purchase of paint, brushes, napkins and gloves), you can creatively decorate it. aging a battery. Very beautiful, in the classic style. You can instead of golden paint, buy silver, or bronze, but this is what anyone needs.

That’s all, read our construction site.

Step-by-step instruction

Photo 3 scheme of the screen details on the battery

Let’s start with the preparation of tools and materials.

The wood-cutting plate is easily painted and due to the structure it “holds” the paint perfectly. You can either paint the entire sheet in advance, or apply paint to the already finished product.

• leaf grid, which will be installed on the front and side panels;
• reflecting sheet. metal or foil sheets are most often used;
• connecting elements. brackets, screws and nails.
• The carpentry glue.

Screen mounting scheme

In general, a radiator grille is a tripartite box with the upper lid and fasteners below. For cutting and assembling all parts, the scheme is used, the legs are attached at the very end and the screen is mounted on the radiator.

Marking

To make the front of the screen, measure both sides of the radiator, after which add 50 mm to the height, to the width, respectively, 100. First, cut out the front panel from a metal sheet, which after decorating a wood.fiber slab.

Next, measure the depth of the radiator, taking into account the distance to the wall and add another 25 mm. This parameter corresponds to the width of the sidewalls, and the height is determined by the pancake of the radiator itself, taking into account the assignment.

The screen cover corresponds to the depth of the radiator plus 35 mm.

Cutting the details

After all the measurements are applied to the diagram, you start cutting each part. The front and lateral panels cut out a wood-mounted slab from the sheet. In order to cut the front profile, use a sheet of a wood.fiber slab, from which rectangles should be cut with a width of 110 mm. Care off the angle 450 in the place where the elements will be connected.

On one rectangle, cut the corners of different directions. So you can connect all the details by means of cloves and/or carpentry glue.

Use the grid for the facade window. Due to the soft structure of the material, it is easy to cut it with an ordinary hacksaw. The dimensions of the grid should match the size of the front panel of the screen.

Self.assembly of the screen

Make a screen of the screen from a wooden bar in size. Such a frame will reliably fix all the details and will not allow the screen to “swim” from side to side. In the frame itself, cut a hole for the pipe (pipe), the center of which should be at a distance of 75 mm from the side planks.

Photo 5 Assembly of the facade of the screen for the battery

Initially, install a metal sheet on the back of the screen on the size of the screen on the radiator. Thus, you will reduce heat loss and direct the movement of warm air into the room.

After the screen is assembled and planted on the frame, decorate the edges of the wood.fiber plate profile. On the same principle, all other details of the screen are collected.

If you opted for a wooden frame from the bar, additional mounting to the wall is not required. If there is no frame, use anchor tsangi to attach a box.

The easiest option would be to put the screen on the legs. This is not to say that the decor will be monolithic, since in general the design is quite fragile, but this will reduce the costs and time for its manufacture.

The optimal strength will be a wooden frame. Due to the fact that it does not affect the movement and circulation of air, this option we recommend for installation.

Mounting

dowel nail

Before installing the screen on the battery, a metal sheet or foil is attached to the wall. From the selected material, a part of the size of the front panel is cut in size by 1 cm on each side, glued to the wall. After that they move on to the installation of the box.

To do this, you can use several ways:

• Installation of the screen on the battery for clogging anchors. Having determined the optimal location of the screen and noting the corresponding points on the wall, the holes are drilled in them. With the help of a hammer, they clog an anchor into the holes, and a bolt is already twisted into it. The box is attached to these bolts.
• Installation for hooks. Having attached the screen to the wall, they outline points for the openings for dowels on both sides. Drill, drive dowels. Fasten hooks are mounted in them. They hang a box on them.
• Installation on the legs. The easiest way to solve the problem for which you will need furniture (preferably adjustable) legs. They are attached to the lower part of the structure using metal corners. After set the desired height of each legs and put on the battery.

Installation of the screen on the heating radiator with your own hands

Installation will worsen the heating properties of the radiator. So that this does not happen, before installing the screen, secure the reflector behind the radiator. The simplest reflector is foil. In this case, thermal rays will be redirected to the room, which will increase the level of heat transfer.

Attention! If the inner surface of the product is painted black, then the design will heat up more from the radiator and give heat to the room itself. The design of the screen on the radiator is selected depending on the type of battery and the method of its installation

Before making a decorative element, think about how to dismantle it in an accident, repair, replacement or simple cleaning

The design of the screen on the radiator is selected depending on the type of battery and the method of its installation. Before making a decorative element, think about how to dismantle it in an accident, repair, replacement or simple cleaning.

Lattice

The screen of the options for such products is the simplest. Is a flat panel consisting of a frame with wooden rails. Reiki have horizontally, vertically, diagonally, in the form of cells. The last option looks most attractive.

Start manufacturing with the installation of the frame in size of the battery. Use only the dried material so that during operation it does not deform and do not break out.

A method of reliable fastening of openwork cells of the lattice to the wooden frame is demonstrated.

Then the required number of slats is attached to the frame in the chosen way. The details before installation are thoroughly polished and strengthened with special compositions. Reiki on the frame is fixed with glue or screws. The finished product is covered with varnish or paint.

Box

For the manufacture of the clock screen, the dimensions are removed from the radiator. The dimensions of the product will be 10 cm in width more than 3-5 cm in height. First of all, the facade part is made. It is made in the form of a panel-solution or on a solid plate cut the necessary holes.

Important! You can not close the radiator with a screen by more than 50%. Then the upper and side parts are made in accordance with the size

They can be bars or be continuous. Parts are interconnected by metal corners. For stability of the screen, the legs are attached below

Then the upper and side parts are made in accordance with the size. They can be bars or be continuous. Parts are interconnected by metal corners. For stability of the screen, the legs are attached below.

How to do it

Рама экрана для батареи

• First you should determine the design of the screen for the battery: it can be made hinged or relying on the floor in the room.
• The next step is to draw a drawing (by hand on paper) of the future screen for the battery, measuring the width and height of the battery, as well as the distance from the wall to the place of fixing the screen panel. Add to the obtained values:

• 3-4 centimeters on each side-to the width of the screen (this will allow air to circulate more efficiently),
• 2-3 centimeters-to the distance from the wall to the screen panel.

Покрашенная рама экрана

Короб экрана батареи

Чертеж установки экрана

• Attach to the box the front panel of the screen using small cloves. To improve the appearance around the perimeter of the panel, small rails can be fixed by creating the visibility of its framing in the frame.
• Pour the side sides of the screen with self.adhesive wallpaper, if this is necessary. Reiki around the front panel can be covered with special wood compounds giving a suitable shade.

Экран батареи, опирающийся о пол

• Then you should fix the screen for the battery on the wall (if the screen is simply installed on the floor in the room, this stage of work is not relevant for you). The difficulty is that the screen should be removable, otherwise you simply cannot then wash the battery or get to the valves that regulate the temperature of its heating. Therefore, to the box for the battery from the back side at the top, you need to attach two suspensions from the back. Next, put the finished screen to the battery and with a pencil mark the holes for drilling. Remove the screen, drill holes, forget plastic dowels in them and screw the screws. It remains only to hang the screen for the battery, on its permanent place.

Теплоотражающий экран из фольги

• If you want to make a heat.cutting screen behind the battery, then in strict accordance with the internal size of the screen of the screen, cut out a rectangle from a foil substrate. Then cut the holes for the hooks leaving the wall (the battery holds on them) and glue the resulting heat.refracting screen to the wall (foil out).

Hang the screen in place and make sure that the foil from under it does not peek out anywhere.

Alternative option

Декор батареи

If you have no opportunity to purchase or make a screen, you can use an alternative option. apply an oil paints on the battery.

Обратите внимание! Для лучшего эффекта рисунок наносится не только на батарею, но и на часть стены возле нее таким образом, чтобы создавался эффект отсутствия объема (то есть лицевая часть батареи и поверхность стены условно являются одной плоскостью).

Wooden screens

The simplest to manufacture the screen is a panel in the form of a grate of wooden racks fixed on a wooden frame. The position of the rack can be any. vertical, horizontal, diagonal.

If desired, you can make a cellular grille, placing the rails at an angle to each other, and using two opposite directions of the layout. over, the angle between them does not have to be straight. But to make the lattice flat, you have to make grooves at the connection points, and, given the thickness of the rails and the manual method of manufacture, it will definitely not be easy to do.

Another type is a tale screen. Such a screen resembles classic wooden shutters on the windows. In order for the rails in the frame to be at the same angle to the plane, the same parallel cuts are made on the side racks with the help. Since the thickness of the canvas of the hacksaw on the tree is less than the thickness of the rail, then two sawdusts are needed for each of them, and the excess should be removed with a narrow chisel.

Both the beam for the framework and the rails should be dry. Given the proximity of the screen to the battery, it is necessary that their own humidity is not higher than 12% (these are general requirements for wood intended for carpentry). There is a simple home method of checking. if you try to tie a thin chip into a knot, then it should break.

In the manufacture of both types of screen, each rack before fastening to the frame must be thoroughly sanded. After they are fixed in place, the grate is primed, covered in two layers with varnish, paint or enamel.

As a decorative finish, you can fix around the perimeter of the frame of wood parsners or wood.fiber slab. If these are wooden platbands, then they must be processed as well as the grille, but they do not have to be the finish coating. the perimeter can be of a different shade.

When the battery stands in a niche, the screen can either completely overlap it, or hang on hooks, leaving small gaps from above, below and on the sides.

When fastening the screen on the box, the side surfaces are sheathed with laminated wood-fiber plate or wood-bruise. The ends of the sheathing can not be finished with a decorative edge if the scorers of the screen will close them.

Another common type of wooden screen is to use plywood as a panel. With the ability to work with a jigsaw, you can cut out an openwork lattice with any pattern transferred to the surface of plywood along the stencil. The finish processing of such a panel does not differ from the lattice: grinding, primer and painting.

Important! When choosing a wood-cutting stove or plywood for the screen, you need to pay attention to their class. For plywood, it must be E1, for the wood-based plate-e0.

We try to make a screen for the radiator yourself

Scarlet screen

A simple screen to execute the radiator consists of a panel with wooden grilles in the frame. Reiki are located in any direction: horizontally, vertically, diagonally. You can conceive a cellular lattice for which the opposite laying of the racks is performed. The angle under which the rails are located can not only be straight.

The diagonal location of the rails on the screen for the heating battery.

As an option, the screen is performed in the form of blinds. It will resemble traditional wooden shutters. Reiki in the frame are located at an angle to the base. This is performed using parallel cuts. Given the sizes of the rail, they perform two sawdrows with a hacksaw, and the excess tree between them is removed with a narrow chisel. Make such excavations at the right angle and in the number of cooked racks.

First mount the frame in size of the radiator. After that, the slats are attached to him. It is only necessary to use dry material, so that during operation it does not break out and does not warp. All parts are thoroughly polished, strengthened with glue or self.tapping screws, primed and covered with chosen varnish or paint.

Screen-clock

It is easy to make the screen with your own hands on the heating radiator from the material of the wood.fiber slab. To do this, knock down the box under the available battery and sheathed it with a decorative panel. You can purchase various options for the color and shape of the holes. Or order the performance of the drawing according to your sketch on a special machine. You can also make simple holes yourself.

For work, the following tools may be required: drill with drills and circular saw, hacksaw, furniture stapler, screwdrivers.

As for the materials: select the stove wood-and-fiber slab, metal mesh, screws and screws for fastening, glue, two furniture legs.

Work is performed to create a screen on the radiator in the following sequence:

• Remove the dimensions from the battery. Add 7-10 cm to the available width, to height-3-5 cm. We measure the necessary values ​​on the prepared plate and cut out on the resulting lines with a circular saw. We get the outer side of the screen.
• For depth to the upper part of the box, add 3-4 cm, we know the width. We cut out according to the same principle. Now we know the sizes and lateral parts of the future product. We cut out these details.
• In the front part we cut out the necessary holes, having previously drawn them with a pencil on the stove. Patterns can be of any shape and depend on the imagination and skill of the performer.
• On the wrong side, we fix the thin metal mesh covering all the holes. This can be done using self.tapping screws or using liquid nails.
• We connect all the blanks using metal corners, placing them inside the box and using the same screws or screws for fastening.

It is important! If simple materials are used, you can wrap the side surfaces of the box with wallpaper with an adhesive layer to the color of the front panel. Wooden details are better to cover with a stain. Experts do not advise using varnishes and oil paints.

For stability to the lower part of the screen, the legs are attached.

Installation of screens on heating radiators.

Of course, this instruction is quite schematical and explains not all the moments. But the main area of ​​work can be understood. The rest depends on the courage and desire of the home master.

How not it is necessary and how can you do

Very bad screen for a heating radiator

Based on the above, we will analyze first of all the characteristic errors in the manufacture of heating radiators. The figure on the left shows an extremely unsuccessful design.

Firstly, scanty ventilation holes practically exclude normal convection. Secondly, in the “sinus” above them, a pillow of heated air forms at the top, which even more prevents normal convection heat transfer. Such a radiator actually works only due to radiation. The casing, apparently, is metallic, but even if it is in a special way is shaken from the inside, you can still safely say that the owners are at least 25% of the cost of heating are lowered into the return. Knowing tariffs, you can figure out for money yourself.

Acceptable screen for a heating radiator

In addition, the additional functionality of such a screen is zero: the box sticks out of the wall, and that’s it. And the designer attempts completely reduce the ugly pipe in its own way: an attempt to cover the battery only emphasizes its ugliness.

In the figure on the right. the design is acceptable, but still imperfect. The design with functionality is all right: the tree looks good, and it turned out a rather elegant shelf, decorated, I must say, with taste.

But the crate is too frequent: the width of its planks is more intervals between them. With any additional measures to improve heat transfer, at least 5-7% of the costs of heat also goes into the return, which in monetary terms for the winter will be a lot.

Therefore, then we will consider how to sew the heating radiator correctly.

DIY optimal screen

Material

Before getting down to business, let’s think carefully: how to close the battery? Both speed and simplicity of work and the thermal efficiency of the radiator in the screen depend on this.

• Plastic. is not suitable for definitely. Roads, poorly conducts heat, give it an aesthetic look, oddly enough at first glance, it is more difficult at home than metal. And most importantly. from uneven heating the plastic will be crumpled over time, or even go stains.
• Metal is inexpensive, excellent heat conductor. But to make a beautiful metal product at home, you need solid working skills and a fairly extensive set of tools.
• Tree. aesthetically, environmentally friendly, easy to work. But it does not conduct heat poorly, and it is impossible to significantly improve its thermal conductivity. However, correctly made (see. further) a wooden screen for the radiator is quite effective.
• Drywall. at first glance does not fit, and not so much in thermal conductivity. From uneven heating, the drywall dry out and begins to peel off, dust, cracks. But having spent a little work, drywall can be improved in all respects and make an excellent screen out of it.

Preparation of drywall

To sew the battery with drywall, it should be prepared. First of all, a special needle roller for drywall (see. rice) roll the wrong side of the cut blanks. The roller is not necessary to buy, you can rent. The key is small, the tool is rarely broken, it is weak, so the rent is small, and the work is for half an hour or an hour. Then the blanks twice on each side are impregnated with a water emulsion PVA. It is inexpensive, and it will take 2-3 liters.

• Polymer emulsion impregnation improves thermal conductivity.
• The holes from the punch create thermal bridges from the inside out.
• Drywall soaked in polymer emulsion does not dry out.
• The paint is well fallen on the impregnated drywall, giving an even layer.
• The cut of drywall processed in this way with an electric or manual jigsaw is clean; After additional processing with a skin and painting, a product that came out of skillful hands looks no worse than a plastic factory.

Now you can start making the screen.

Design

Screen for heating radiator with increased heat transfer

The screen cut with a heating radiator that provides not inferior to the initial heat transfer is shown in the figure. In addition to the described above, the design has two highlights: an aerodynamic visor and an injector of warm air. They are made from tin, galvanizing, or even from cardboard. In the latter case, the inside of the visor must be pasted over with aluminum foil (a baking sleeve is suitable).

The visor is necessary not only for the old “cast iron”. For aluminum radiators, it is even more necessary. Without it in the corner under the windowsill, or the upper shelf of the clock, the warm air cushion described above is formed, which can completely block convection. The aluminized surface of the visor addressed to the radiator reinstalls a certain share of the IR. For money, the score goes on a penny, but for the heating season of these cents these are a lot of these.

The injector sucks warm air from the front side of the radiator. Please note that its output is made with some narrowing. On “Small Gaza”, the injector practically does not work, but with increased heating the thrust is intensified and the warm air on top of “falls in clubs”. Literally, if you check with smoke.

In general, with a strong heating, the total heat flow from such a design is more estimated in free space. Where a radiator in a regular screen copes worse and worse, the radiator in the screen with a visor and an injector “Kochegarit” more and more stronger and stronger.

Note: The option of an injector for a cast-iron harmonic battery is shown. For a modern radiator, the injector should be lowered to the lower edge of the upper snot sniff.

Injector and visor are non.critical to size, it is enough to do it approximately as shown in the figure. If necessary, you can bend or bend.

Fixing the screen to the wall. any. It is best, of course, threaded studs in anchor tsangs, but they are worth a lot, so any wooden churbachki are also suitable. But an important condition for the effective operation of the design: the total area of ​​elements of the front surface should be less than such intervals between them. With the regular structure of the crate, wooden rails or strips of drywall should already be intervals. In this case, with old cast.iron batteries, the elements of the crate are preferable to dispose vertically.

So, now you know how to make a heating radiator by decoration of the interior without losing warmth and comfort. A good winter in a warm apartment!