Heating both private homes and apartments implies the presence of devices that radiate heat, ie radiators. They are filled with hot water, which is fed through pipes centrally or warmed in the boiler in a private housing. Many disputes cause such a device as a screen for a heating duct.
Screen - it's construction, which is completely or partially conceals the radiator from the eyes of those who are in the room, but it does not prevent the warming air in the room from the battery. The basic meaning of the screen installation - aesthetic.
Many people do not see the point of the screen, because it does not contribute to a better heating of, and may even hinder it. But if so everyone thought that the houses did not spread to concealed installation of water pipes, skirting boards with cable channel and other devices designed to conceal the communication.
radiators for the most part are very similar to each other. Even new models - like twins. Put the designer copper battery can afford not for everyone. And then it can fetch a screen that will remove the radiator with a visual emphasis.
How to choose a screen for radiator
On the Internet you can find information that properly selected, the screen may not worsen warming up premises and to improve it. The explanation appears concentration of heat in the front and rear sections as well as an infrared heating room. For an explanation of the thermal processes involved almost quantum mechanics.
In fact, the screen that has no active heating element can not be further heat the room. Therefore, we must take care only about one thing: it does not interfere batteries give off heat into the room. To this end, it must meet several criteria:
- Do not be continuous. If there is no screen openings, the air can not circulate along the radiator and heated from it. Violated the main principle of battery life - convection. The screen should be mesh or lattice, the total surface area should be less than the total area of the slits and holes.
- It should not be of insulating material. The screen is made of plastic - a bad option. Best - of metal, e.g., aluminum. Wood paneling is also poor conductors of heat, but well handled and attractive look.
- It should take into account the convection currents. Bottom blocking access to the battery can not - hence the cold air rises. From above you can not block the hot air, which then rushes through the room, heating it. Therefore, if the battery on a continuous sill or decorative screen panel, the heating will be worse. Organize openings in the upper panel and improve convection.
The best option would be to screen tenants of apartments with central heating, which is traditionally a well stoked. If drowning is unimportant, and you want to put the screen - make it tracery. This will reduce heat loss, which will hold the screen. To hide while the radiator, make all the niche where it is installed, inconspicuous.
For example, if the kitchen in bright colors, the niche Vykraste in the dark, and cooler, too, and the screen will let light in color. So masked radiator on a dark background and does not distract the attention on himself.
How to set the screen own hands - step by step guide
Whichever display you choose - a metal with a fine mesh or wooden plates from horizontal, at its choice and installation will need to:
Step 1. Measure yourself heating radiator in order to determine the size of the screen. In the field of sales it is easy to make the size you want, the more so that the height of the standard sections, differs only in the number of them.
Step 2. Fixture screen panels made of two self-tapping screws, where the screen is hung and fixed. For holes need to punch or hammer drill.
Step 3. Attaching the screen needs to be done from the top down, to fastening elements went into the grooves without imbalance. After installation, the radiator is completely hidden from view.
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