Sofas & Sofa Beds Chairs & Footstools Tables Storage & Home Throws Rugs Dining Chairs Dining Table Sets Cooking & Dining In terms of durability, you can expect this paint to last years due to its tough finish which requires minimal maintenance. As radiators get older they become less efficient at outputting heat and you may find that over time your radiator has more and more ‘cold spots’. Primer paint is also widely available in aerosol format. If that’s your tool of choice, you’ll want to pop on a mask and spray in upwards and downwards strokes at a distance of around 8in. Once fully coated, wait for the primer to dry completely.

Hammerite Radiator Enamel Gloss is a heat resistant high gloss finish for water-filled radiators and hot water pipes. Easy to use.

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With that in mind, you should use either a one or two inch synthetic paint brush to paint your radiators along with a round tip brush to get into any awkward areas. If satin is your finish of choice, than this specially formulated Hammerite Radiator Paint Satin is ideal for you. It provides a heat resistant brilliant white finish on water-filled household radiators and hot water pipes. Hammerite Red Oxide Primer is specially formulated for use on both bare and rusty iron and steel. This high performance primer provides a smooth protective base for overcoating with minimal sanding. For interior and exterior use. For aluminium, galvanised and all other non-ferrous metals, use Hammerite Special Metals Primer. Farrow & Ball Dulux Homebase Crown Heritage Crafted by Crown Ronseal Craig & Rose Sandtex Elle Decoration Rust-Oleum Annie Sloan Zinsser Cuprinol Laura Ashley

Compared to other paints, Ronseal’s radiator paint has relatively low odour although it’s advised that you keep the room in which you’re painting well ventilated before, during and after application. Do your metal objects suffer from small areas of rust, stone chips and scratches? The Hammerite Kurust Stone Chip Pencil is ideal for that. It transforms rust to a sound surface in only 15 minutes. Application can be done simply with a 1 or 2 inch brush and with very decent covering capability (I believe it goes further than any other paint in this article) painting is a breeze. On top of that, the paint becomes touch dry in around 30 minutes so if you do end up needing two coats, you won’t need to wait too long before you apply the second. Fed up with white radiators and fancy a cool contemporary colour instead? Then this Anthracite Grey enamel satin paint is a good choice to give your radiator a modern twist.If you are going to paint a radiator you really need to be using a specialist radiator paint to get the best finish. But you are very much limited by what colour you can choose when dealing with specialist radiator paints. They typically come in white in satin or gloss finishes that mimic the factory finish you get on most modern radiators. There are other colours available but there is a good chance you won’t get the exact colour you want to complement your walls.

The best radiator paints offer a durable, heat-resistant finish that can make painting a radiator a great option for your home renovation If you’re looking for the best spray paint for radiators, we’d highly recommend Rust Oleum’s Radiator Enamel. This spray paint has been specifically formulated for use on radiators and is washable as well as moisture resistant. It is a pure brilliant white that is non-yellowing unlike a lot of oil-based paints, but this does mean it's no good for touch-ups on old discoloured radiators.One or two coats of Rust-Oleum will be ample to get your heat-throwers looking like new, and there’s no need to apply primer first as this paint has primer mixed in. This means you skip an entire stage of the painting process, but the trade-off is that it will take longer to dry. Depending on how much paint you use, the average job will be touch-dry in one to two hours and fully dry in eight. But if a second coat is required, you’ll need to wait a whole 16 hours before it’s ready. In total, then, Rust-Oleum recommends waiting seven days for true dryness. But, if you can wait, why not?