Radiator covers
Radiator covers are in great demand these days. Most modern cheap white radiators are
anything but beautiful, which is why so many 
people wish to cover them up. But most people cover them with mass-produced radiator cabinets that we believe to be equally ugly. If you accept a reduction in your radiator's efficiency* for the sake of looks,
shouldn't you at least do it with style? Our philosophy is that radiator covers should be gorgeous, after all, it's
their only reason for being. That's why we will use stained
glass and brass or copper inlays although the cover itself is largely made of MDF. We also encourage customers to choose real oak
veneers with solid oak trims. The result is so convincingly like solid timber that other cabinet-makers are sometimes taken in. Oak is particularly suitable for matching the colour of old yellow pine. And most of Glasgow's hundred year old houses had their doors and skirting boards made from American yellow (sometimes called Virginia) pine. In most instances, we also roughly match the skirtings on our cover to those of the room.
We try to make our covers as efficient as possible,
which means leaving them as open as possible. Your radiator thus
remains partially visible. So we try to disguise them. When
fitting the covers we paint the radiators the same colour as the
covers themselves. This is a skill in itself when it comes to
wood graining!
Costs, inclusive of measuring, building, painting, fitting, are
around £250 to £400 per cover.
* Covering a radiator cuts down their heat output. We make
radically different radiator covers. We pay little attention to
the conventional designs of our competitors and try to make our
covers look like art while allowing them to do their job. To
start with, we leave your radiator as open to the room as
possible. The average commercial cabinet grille is no more than
30% open and 70% screened, whereas ours are about 70% open and
30% screened. Other manufacturers make the ludicrous claim that
by building up heat behind behind the screen the heat is
convected through the top slit and shoots out into the room
instead of rising to the ceiling, making the radiator work more
efficiently. Rubbish. The heated air circulates much the same way
with or without a cover, but the cover itself will absorb heat
(and waste energy you are paying for). 
If manufacturers were
really interested in preventing heat loss, they would coat the
inside of their cabinets with a heat reflecting material. The mad
DIY enthusiast might wish to stick baking foil on the reverse
side of the shelf (which absorbs by far the most
heat).