As a new homeowner, you will find it unpleasant seeing endless radiator pipes running from one end of your house to the other. As a matter of fact, it could portray a negative image of you and your house to other people. Definitely, you don’t want that to happen to you when there are uncountable ways to conceal radiator pipes around your house. Let’s learn a few tricks that you can use to hide radiator pipes within your premises.
As a new homeowner, you will find it unpleasant seeing endless radiator pipes running from one end of your house to the other. As a matter of fact, it could portray a negative image of you and your house to other people. Definitely, you don’t want that to happen to you when there are uncountable ways to conceal radiator pipes around your house. Let’s learn a few tricks that you can use to hide radiator pipes within your premises.
You can box in the pipes
Boxing in is the most popular way of concealing radiator pipes. You can achieve this feat by constructing a box around the pipework starting from the wood to the plasterboard covering all pipes along the line. It could be in a kitchen, a bathroom or even a living room. Boxing in pipes will work perfectly well and maintain a completely admirable outlook of the entire room.
Once boxing is done, you can make the whole structure blend with the surrounding by piping and boxing in, in the same color with the rest of the skirting board. By so doing, you will be minimizing the visual impact of the whole setup in order to have a completely uniform and coherent design scheme. Alternatively, boxing is advantageous in making sure that you don’t experience a more pronounced cluttered feel in the interior of your house.
Despite being affordable as well as easy to do, boxing in can be a great way to make your house look a little bit smaller than it is in the real sense. This illusionary effect could be desirable in one way but in some instances, it might not be an answer to concealing central heating pipes.
You can skirt boards using a pipe rebate
Skirting board is a small channel that you can cut into the back side of the board with which you will use to house the radiator pipes. However, you may need pipe rebates that measure up to 40mm in height with varying depth depending on the entire thickness of the skirting board. The depth (of the pipe rebate in this case) is the overall width of the board which is mainly minus six for the durability aspect of the skirting board.
What about skirting board covers?
Skirting board covers are more practical in terms of size and placement heights for the radiator pipes. To achieve the best results, you need to reach out for radiator pipe covers that accommodate pre-existing skirting board with pipes that you want to hide from the view. This is possible when making an order for the skirting board where you will need to give measurements for the pipes you wish to hide. The skirting covers come with some extra allowance in measurements in relation to the skirting so that it fits well and comfortably.
You can just simply paint the radiator pipes
Sometimes you can opt for painting the pipes with something suitable like Hammerite Enamel to blend with the surrounding more effectively as a counter-intuitive measure. For instance, you can use colors that match your brightly colored towels in the washroom to create uniformity. Therefore, by painting the radiator pipes in the same color as the surrounding, you will not only be saving on other radiator pipe covers but creating the design fluidity in your house. Besides, this is another way of enhancing color in your interior design while at the same time, hiding pipes slightly.
For better and trans-formative effects, you need to wipe down the pipes to remove dirt prior to painting. This is a precautionary step to have a well-done job of hiding radiator pipes by painting them. All in all, you need to look for trusted and recommended radiator paints that can withstand heat and moisture on the radiator pipes.
You can simply cover them
There are various sizes of plastic and metallic covers for radiator pipes that you can purchase from nearby hardware shops. These materials always look neat and are readily affordable with one positive aspect of being removable for maintenance. In fact, you can scrape off the paint that has already been applied onto the pipe and repaints them to match the surrounding. This type of radiator covers is easy to use and do not require much time and labor to fix.
To wrap up, there are many ways you can conceal the radiator pipes in your house but those mentioned above are quite practical and DIY to save money and your precious time.
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