Painting/covering copper pipes?

SnowWhiterThanWhite

Hi,

Have just had a lovely new chrome heated towel rad installed, but the copper pipes feeding into the bottom of the rad look odd, I just wondered if it would be OK to paint these silver? Can anyone recommend either a paint to do this, or whether there is a covering I could use?

The pipes aren't straight, they sort of bend inwards & upwards into the rad, approx 12" long

Thanks

keystone

Chrome radsnaps.

If I'd been doing it I'd have used chrome plated pipe.:D

Cheers

loracan1

You can buy a silver coloured pipe cover designed for this purpose in diy stores, it's only a thin plastic so easy to cut and fit round.

warpedchippie

SnowWhiterThanWhite wrote: »

Hi,

Can anyone recommend either a paint to do this, or whether there is a covering I could use?


Thanks

Hammerite paint springs to mind, sold in many colours, can be bought in any diy store.

Not too sure about it's heat resistance?

Steve

SnowWhiterThanWhite

warpedchippie wrote: »

Hammerite paint springs to mind, sold in many colours, can be bought in any diy store.

Not too sure about it's heat resistance?

Steve

I was thinking the same thing, just not sure if it would start to peel off with the heat.

SnowWhiterThanWhite

loracan1 wrote: »

You can buy a silver coloured pipe cover designed for this purpose in diy stores, it's only a thin plastic so easy to cut and fit round.

Sounds perfect - i'm off to B&Q later today so will have a look Thanks

keystone

SnowWhiterThanWhite wrote: »

Sounds perfect - i'm off to B&Q later today so will have a look Thanks

You'll need to be asking for "radsnaps".

Cheers

hazybubbles

if they are bendy radsnaps do not work. The pipe needs to be straight for these to actually look decent

roger196

If your worried about heat, get some high temperature paint from car specialist shops or motorcycle shops for spraying exhaust pipes...these get much much hoter than central heating pipes.

27col

I fitted some rad snaps to a towel rail that I installed recently. The plastic "chrome" was so thin that it was just like foil. The slightest touch of a finger nail or a cutting tool tended to dislodge it. You need to be extremely careful while fitting it.

SnowWhiterThanWhite

hazybubbles wrote: »

if they are bendy radsnaps do not work. The pipe needs to be straight for these to actually look decent

Yeah, i did look at these in wilkinsons, but, won't fit as the pipes I am looking to cover aren't straight.

Will look at the car paint idea above

Thanks all