You need to allow for room for air to flow through and in the cover.
Ways to cover baseboard heaters.
Turn off the baseboard heater and allow it to completely cool.
1 slide wood shims behind the back plate of the baseboard heater.
Use the old cover as a guide to mark the new cover at the correct.
I usually remove the existing metal cover so that the new cover need not be too big.
4 prop up heating element then use slotted screwdriver to pry the back plate from the hangers.
Neat heat baseboard cover.
You can buy custom baseboard heater covers to match perfectly your decoration or just find one that can blend seamlessly onto the wall.
I built the cover about 5 inches tall and 5 inches out from the wall.
The basic way the system works is that air is drawn in at the bottom of the cover heated by the hot water in the pipe under the cover and exits through the top of the cover.
The metal fins of the heater can be concealed behind a panel under a window seat or inside an nicely designed cover that is decorated with little panels or faced with the same baseboard moulding as the rest of the room.
3 pull the adjustable damper from the hangers and discard.
This neat heat baseboard cover is the best for the second option that is also the easiest one to apply.
When it comes to ways to cover baseboard heaters there are just two ways to go.
Depending on the style of heater the ends of the cover fit into.
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2 use reciprocating saw to cut nails or screws holding back plate to wall.