In many apartments, old pig-iron radiators of heating have remained, they look not really esthetically and new paint will not help here. The screen on the battery can and be bought, but to make it independently quickly and easily for the person who has got used to hand tool. Material for framework are wooden rails which can be bought in any shop of finishing materials, and here of what material to make grid, to solve to you.
It is required to you
- - wooden rails;
- - hacksaw;
- - small nails and brackets;
- - furniture edge;
- - iron.
Instruction
1. Make at first framework for the screen, using the heating radiator sizes. Think in advance whether you need to make this decorative part big to use it also as support under various objects. If the battery is not in niche, it is possible to make the screen long, using all free space of wall. Separate it into sections that to use the offices which are not occupied with radiator as lockers.
2. Connect the rails sawn by the sizes furniture coupling screws, previously having drilled openings in the right places. Beautifully the screen with legs looks. They can be bought in shop of furniture fittings and just to fasten to the lower rail.
3. Now it is already possible to attach grid to ready framework. Make it of furniture edge. Color gamma of such products rather wide that it was possible to pick up shade under furniture or finishing of interior. Plastic edge, thin, strong and heatresistant. It is very simple to weave grid for the radiator screen out of it.
4. Try to make identical rhombuses of edge strips. Cut identical pieces of material and beat them not up to the end small carnations to the top rail of framework. The distance between strips has to be identical. The interval is less – the grid will turn out more dense, it is more – the product will leave openwork. Weave strips through one diversely. Fix on opposite and sides by carnations or furniture brackets.
5. To stiffen grid, warm up it slightly the iron from face side. Glue on inner side will be softened, and edges will reliably stick together among themselves, having formed rigid construction.
6. Instead of furniture edge it is possible to use strips of linen or other material, rope or tape. For the room of the girl take lace, and for "metalworker" - chain.
7. The grid can be made also of the threads moistened with PVA glue. Severe strings of natural color will perfectly fit into what style. On the sheet of the plastic oiled vegetable note the size of product, extend threads through bottle with glue and form grid of form necessary to you. Paste the dried part to framework or attach furniture brackets.