You need to allow for room for air to flow through and in the cover.
Ways to cover baseboard heaters.
When it comes to ways to cover baseboard heaters there are just two ways to go.
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.
Turn off the baseboard heater and allow it to completely cool.
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.
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This neat heat baseboard cover is the best for the second option that is also the easiest one to apply.
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3 pull the adjustable damper from the hangers and discard.
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Remove the old cover from the front of the heater.
4 prop up heating element then use slotted screwdriver to pry the back plate from the hangers.
Depending on the style of heater the ends of the cover fit into.
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.
2 use reciprocating saw to cut nails or screws holding back plate to wall.