Can You Paint Electric Heat Registers

Honestly the hardest part of this whole project is the waiting.

Can you paint electric heat registers.

Yes you can use regular paint and no it won t smell when you crank the heat though it may the first time after you ve painted. We painted all electric bases in a house at the homeowners request and the next year i got a call that all of the paint was peeling. Unscrew the screws on the register and remove it from the wall ceiling or floor. Before painting you ll need to sand off that rust.

Apply a coat of rust inhibiting metal paint to the heater cover and to the paintable section of the heater element using a clean foam paintbrush. It has a heat tolerance of up to 250 degrees. Rustoleum s clean metal primer is safe to use here since it s heat resistant up to 200 ºf 95 ºc. The challenge is that the heater covers unlike other paintable surfaces in your room are made of metal.

Apply paint to the end caps. Turn off the heater and allow the register to cool for four to six hours. King kp portable 5 ft. You do not want drips of paint so do a total of 4 5 light coats to be sure you cover all parts of the metal register.

Rinse the register with wet rags. I first lightly rubbed it down with some steel wool and gave it a good wipe down. Allow the paint to dry. The gentelmen there said the ultra spec 500 would be just fine to paint baseboard heat.

Clean the register with a water based degreaser. Baseboard heaters can be painted along with the rest of a room or with an accent color to give some character to the border where your walls and floor meet. Electric baseboard radiators on the other hand can theoretically reach temperatures as high as 150 200 ºf 65 95 ºc which exceeds the heat resistance of most paint. I got it mixed in simple white which is my go to white and got to work.

120 volt 750 watt 1500 watt 2 stage eco baseboard heater in white. They are also subjected to great fluctuations in temperature as they operate. If they are electric you need hiigh heat paint.