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Column casings are essential in providing protection to your radiators and are available for both internal and external use. It is available in various materials and colours so that you can choose one to complement the interior decoration of your home or office.
Column casings are usually bought to enhance the heating and cooling ability of your radiator. This is because these casings are sold with insulation, with which heat is reflected more externally and not internally back into the radiator.
Get better cooling with column casings
This way, you don’t have to spend that much of electricity to heat and maintain the heat of the radiator as you otherwise would without any column casings.
Similarly, with column casings, the cooling effect of radiator is enhanced by the same functions as in the case of the heating effects of the radiator. It is obvious that the radiator gets hot when heating your home which leads to a possibility of your accidentally getting burnt when you inadvertently touch the radiator.
Use casings to prevent burns
To prevent these burns from occurring to you, your pets and children, you should have column casings surrounding the radiator. In addition, these casings provide protection to the radiator from the bugs that hound it and from your pets that may scratch the radiator.
In addition to all the practical implications of column casings, they also help enhance the interior decoration of your home. This is because it helps cover the unsightly look of your radiator. There are many types of casings for you to choose from.
They are available in various shapes, sizes and finishes, and are found in various colours. You can choose from performed plywood column casings, glass reinforced gypsum casings, aluminum casings, and glass reinforced polymer casings amongst others.
Different column casings come with different features
Each of these different types of casings has different features and advantages when compared to each other. For example, the performed plywood ones are lightweight when compared to the other materials, but are very strong.
Then there are glass reinforced gypsum casings are lightweight, versatile and strong and great for use in internal locations. As it does not burn, it is great for places where you require fire rated column casings.
GRP casings are great for both internal and external applications and in places where other materials don’t work. These casings are long life, need minimal maintenance and great for use in hostile environments.
Column casings are easily and quickly installed
If you choose column casings that come with a hard wearing surface like Formica laminates, you are ensured of protection for your radiator for a long time, with minimum maintenance.
In addition to all this, as casings are provided to you in the complete and pre-finished state, they eliminate wet trades and can be quickly and easily installed by joiners.
They are also available in various shapes to suit the shape of your radiator; so you need not worry about the feasibility of finding column casings to cover any form of radiator you may have.