Painting Floor Registers

How to paint floor registers.

Painting floor registers. First things first gather your materials. How to repaint a floor furnace vent. Coat the primed heat register with a high temperature spray paint. I went outside and used newspaper to catch the extra paint.

We replaced our main floor vents with wrought iron covers but did some spraying on a bunch of mismatched vents when the basement suite was renovated. You also need a safe place to use spray paint. You don t need much for this project. These products serve as both primer and topcoat in one.

Either way because. Floor furnace vents are metal grilles that either distribute the heated furnace air to the room or are part of the return air duct system. Pretty much any paint will work with this kind of heating system water and oil based paints work equally well over oil based clean metal primer. Spray paint in your color choice.

New products on the market today offer a direct to metal one step painting process for baseboard heaters. There are a lot of good acrylic latex primers and one step paints on the market. I went with a benjamin moore interior latex paint that matches my trim. Direct to metal dtm paint.

When requesting a dtm paint ask for an acrylic based selection. Electric baseboard radiators on the other hand can theoretically reach temperatures as high as 150 200 ºf 65 95 ºc. Registers these typically slatted covers are found in the floor wall or ceiling and their defining feature is a lever that allows you to open or close the air vent to adjust airflow into the space. Here s what you ll need to spray paint rusty metal floor vents aka heat registers.

You can find floor registers in a variety of materials styles and finishes so you can incorporate them as a decorative element that also blends. Hold the can 8 inches from the register as you apply it.