Hello all, I hope I'm posting this in the right forum, but I have a strange heating element in my bathroom. I have baseboard heating through my home. However, in my bathroom, my heating element goes along the ceiling. As you can see in the picture, it's very aesthetically unpleasing. I am sprucing up the bathroom, so I was wondering if there were any options I have with this. Can it be boxed out? Is there a better heating vent cover out there that would be more aesthetically pleasing? I don't know what buzz words or phrases to even use to try to google possible solutions. Some feedback from you veterans would be most appreciated. Thank you!
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Heating vent cover question
Hello all, I hope I'm posting this in the right forum, but I have a strange heating element in my bathroom. I have baseboard heating through my home. However, in my bathroom, my heating element goes along the ceiling. As you can see in the picture, it's very aesthetically unpleasing. I am sprucing up the bathroom, so I was wondering if there were any options I have with this. Can it be boxed out? Is there a better heating vent cover out there that would be more aesthetically pleasing? I don't know what buzz words or phrases to even use to try to google possible solutions. Some feedback from you veterans would be most appreciated. Thank you!
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First off, wtf? Is that radiant boiler heat? Um, what design theme are you going for? That could stir up some ideas. Look up decorative floor radiator covers. Then go to pics. There’s allot of options. Then integrate it into your design and make it look deliberate. Post an update of the choice.
If it's hot water baseboard I would just make a wood box to fit around it (maybe 1"-2" clearance away from the metal), paint to match walls or stain it a matching wood-tone. Just need a "slot" on the bottom (pointing at floor) and the face (pointing into the room) and it'll look good and work fine.
I'm slowly doing all the baseboards in my house in wood, mine are all on the floor where they belong though 😄
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I'm slowly doing all the baseboards in my house in wood, mine are all on the floor where they belong though 😄
mmm I'd put a 1x1 along the bottom to rest the box on then another 1x1 along the front, then screws along the top edge of the box to hold it up. Unscrew those and it'll pop right off. Can do something like These or these and make it part of the decor theme of the room, the first ones you just have to use real metal screws and those will magnet to them to stay in place, the second ones would be a little more difficult to remove, but not much more. There's lots of other ones on Amazon, try searching mirror screw caps and see if anything catches your fancy.
Oh and you could do decorative bolts if you can match up some wood lock washers for the back side (the 1x1 across the front) - Drill holes all the way through the 1x1 to fit the bolts, the wood lock washers get hammered into the 1x1's back side, and the decorative head bolts would screw into the lock washer things. Ah here I had the name wrong, T-nuts or threaded inserts.
Oh and you could do decorative bolts if you can match up some wood lock washers for the back side (the 1x1 across the front) - Drill holes all the way through the 1x1 to fit the bolts, the wood lock washers get hammered into the 1x1's back side, and the decorative head bolts would screw into the lock washer things. Ah here I had the name wrong, T-nuts or threaded inserts.
Just realized I didn't type that very well, was making bacon and putting together my new bakers rack. 1x1's on each side wall below the register, like shelf supports. 😄
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