Painting Wall Heater Covers

Cleaning and surface preparation.

Painting wall heater covers.

You can use a cardboard box as a painting box. Head outside to your driveway or garage door open and pop the vent covers in a cardboard box to contain the over spray. How to paint a rusty baseboard heater. If you care about perfection which i don t use a sanding block for metal to remove the rust.

Take the pieces outside to be painted. When you think the cover and whatever else is dry let it cure another day. Be sure to turn the gas off first. Demonstration on techniques used to restore rusty radiator heater covers.

Surface preparation is the most. Those of us with forced hot water systems don t have to worry about using heat resistant paint since these systems don t get very hot water usually leaves the boiler at 180 ºf 80 ºc but by the time it reaches the radiator the temperature will have dropped up to 50 ºf 20 ºc and the radiator covers. Rusty vent covers will cause the spray paint to adhere unevenly. A rusty old baseboard heater can be a real eyesore but you can give it a face lift faster and easier than you may think.

When the heater is safely disconnected from power and or gas remove the heater cover and take it outdoors or to a well ventilated room to prepare it for painting. Use a vacuum cleaner but no chemicals.