How to hide the gas column with the locker in the kitchen
When buying a locker to hide the gas column, it is recommended to call the home controller or make all the measurements yourself, but to provide the manufacturer with the necessary measurements you need as accurately as possible.
This solution to the problem of hiding the gas column has many advantages. For example, a large number of design options for creating a locker style. But there are also disadvantages, such as large financial costs. You can avoid this problem if you make such a cabinet and install it yourself.
How to make a locker to hide a gas column?
We will need:
- drill;
- screwdriver;
- electric jigsaw;
- milk;
- self-tapping screws;
- dowel-nails.
Having prepared all the necessary tools, you can start assembling the cabinet.
- First of all, all necessary parts must be drilled in such a way that the result is a box for the column.
- Now it is necessary to cut out the holes that are necessary for the gas column, so that it can fit there easily.
- The cabinet needs to be fixed through an external wall or it can be attached to other cabinets.
- After that, you can install the door on the cabinet, as a rule, it is chosen similarly to the facades of kitchen furniture.
To save money, the door can be attached only to the adjacent walls of the cabinet, if planning allows.
After watching the video on this topic, you can more fully imagine how the boiler is masked.
How to hide the gas column using PVC panels
Thanks to the use of plastic materials, you can hide the gas column. They are used in finishing works for premises. Quality panels do not emit any harmful substances, they are also very practical, so they can last a long time. And a wide variety of colors and their shades in the construction market will allow to mask the gas column, without departing from the general style of decorating the room.
The most important task in this work is the selection of PVC for the design of the room. At first glance, the task seems simple, but it is not so, as the kitchens are very rarely lined with such material.
Well, the disadvantage can be attributed to the fact that when hiding behind the PVC panel of the gas column to it there will be no permanent access.
How to hide the boiler with decorative elements
The easiest and cheapest way to hide the boiler is to mask it with various decorative elements or cover a film that will be safe for such work.
The film can be chosen suitable for the color scheme of the room or paste it with any image.
Also the column can be decorated with magnets, it will look rather original.
If the gas boiler is located near the window, it can easily be hidden under a curtain made of dense fabric, or behind a curtain. To do this, you need to install a small wooden cornice over the column, attach rings to it, and hang curtains on the rings.
How to hide a gas pipe in the kitchen
There are many ways to disguise the gas pipe in the kitchen, consider the most common ones.
- The first way is to mask the gas pipes in the box. It can be made of a variety of materials, but most often use either wooden or plastic boxes. This design can be pasted wallpaper. It should be remembered that access to the pipes is mandatory, so the box should be made so that it opens.
- As a method of masking gas pipes, gypsum plaster structures can be considered. This option is suitable for a room of a sufficiently large size, which will allow the construction of a false wall. This design can be pasted with wallpaper or put ceramic tiles. The downside of the plasterboard wall is that there is practically no access to the pipes, except for hatches, which provide it only to small individual sections.
- As an option of camouflage, the pipes should simply be painted in the same color as the wall along which they pass.
