How to decorate or hide a gas boiler in the kitchen?

What safety rules are important to follow?

The first thing to remember - gas equipment - source of increased danger... Installation and operation of equipment must be carried out in strict observance of safety precautions.

• Installation of a gas boiler, its further shutdown, connection can only be carried out by employees of special services. It is forbidden for the owners to disconnect the equipment from the line on their own.!
• Do not disassemble the unit, remove the housing or its parts.
• If you intend to hide the gas boiler in the kitchen in a cupboard, make sure there are gaps on the sides, and there are no upper and lower partitions. It is important to provide free access to all elements, air circulation.
• There should be no foreign objects on the boiler lid - they can simply fall from vibration.
• According to safety requirements, any method of masking the boiler should not interfere with its operation, it should be removable for inspection or repair.

How to fit the boiler into the interior?

The safest option to fit the boiler into the kitchen interior is to choose the right one. For example, an open white column in the background white kitchen set will be almost invisible, you will not have to put it in the kitchen cabinet. If a wall cabinets are absent by designin order for the gas boiler to fit into the interior of the kitchen, choose a model to match the walls.

Of course, the big question remains over stylistic relevance. Availability of equipment in loft style kitchen will not raise questions - a column with suitable pipes will look organic in an industrial interior.

In the high-tech style, there is also no need to hide the gas boiler, the main thing is that the design should outwardly correspond to the design of the kitchen.

FROM classic interiors or rustic styles (country, provence) is more complicated - bulky heating equipment looks too modern, does not fit into the design concept, destroys it. But the gas boiler can be decorated!

Methods for masking the boiler:

• Painting... Because boxes have a limited standard palette; it will not be easy to match it exactly to the color of the kitchen. But you can always just repaint the gas water heater by tint the paint in the desired shade so that it looks harmonious when surrounded by kitchen cabinets. Tinting is carried out to match the walls, furniture, appliances.
• Painting... For decoration, you will need artistic talents, or the help of an artist. In some cases, you can get by with a stencil. You can draw anything - from flowers or ornaments to very specific things. For example, if shelves are placed to the right and left of the gas boiler, on the column itself you can draw their continuation, the objects standing on them.

• Decoupage... Artistic skills will not come in handy, because this technique involves transferring finished drawings to the surface using a varnish with a brush. Images can be cut from napkins, special decoupage sheets or printed.At the end, be sure to protect the coating with varnish.
• Sticker... The fastest, cleanest way to decorate the cauldron. On sale you can find ready-made options or order in the printing house individual printing on self-adhesive film according to your plot, size.

If none of the decoration options fit, you want to make the gas boiler invisible, go to the next section.

How do I hide the cauldron?

If visual design is the safest way to disguise a boiler in the kitchen, then a camouflage cabinet is the most inconspicuous. From the outside, a built-in single-circuit or double-circuit unit in a furniture set looks like an ordinary wardrobe, remaining completely invisible.

the main task - choose the right furniture for the kitchen with a gas boiler.

1. Firstly, it should be 7-10 cm larger than the gas boiler on each side wall, in front.
2. Secondly, to ensure the necessary ventilation, the top and bottom walls are dismantled. The facades remain blank, as on other cabinets.

But if the kitchen design allows, give preference to lattice doors - the air will circulate freely, will not be able to affect the operation of the boiler.

The most convenient way to plan placement of equipment, choose a layout furniture before the start of the renovation - so you can decide where to leave a place for the gas boiler (it is best not to put it in a corner, but leave it in the middle), call the wizard to connect it after installing the headset.

The machine is already installed, you don't want to call the wizard to transfer it? We'll have to build a kitchen around him. To do this, the first thing on the plan is the location of the gas boiler and the rest of the furniture is built around it.

For example, when the boiler is located in the corner by the window, it can be removed either in the corner cabinet (if the set goes along the window opening), or in the floor case. The second allows you to close the unit itself and the communications leading to it, the counter.

Pencil cases are also great for floor standing boilers. Columns take up a lot of space, which is unacceptable on small kitchen... But if the area allows, you will get 100% hidden installation.

In order to camouflage gas equipment, it is not necessary to order the manufacture of a box - sometimes it is enough to leave a niche. For example, in the corner above the sink. The main thing when hanging cabinets is to leave enough distance for air circulation, for auditing.

A completely different question - transfer of the gas boiler from the kitchen to any other room... In a private house, for example, it may be a boiler room. The apartment has a corridor and a storage room. The first thing to understand before starting the procedure is it is difficult to approve the transfer, and it is prohibited to do so without the appropriate permission - violators face serious fines.

First of all, check the planned future place of residence for compliance with the requirements:

• The presence of an exhaust ventilation duct (chimney) with a pipe of at least 150 mm.
• Availability of an inlet from the street or another room of at least 0.02 sq.m.
• The presence of a window from 0.8 square meters, a doorway from 80 cm wide.
• Dimensions not less than 7.5 sq. M., Ceiling height above 2 m.
• The room should not be residential (it is forbidden to put in studios, living rooms, bedrooms), there should not be devices with an open water supply next to the column (baths, bathrooms are also prohibited).

Site preparation for gas household appliances you can do it yourself, but disconnection from the old pipe, connection to the new one must be carried out by gas service specialists.

What should be done:

1. Bring a water and gas pipeline. If gas is let through flexible corrugated pipes, it is forbidden to cross window or door openings.
2. Connect the socket to which the boiler will be powered.
3. Hang a metal shield on the wall or put it on the floor (depending on the chosen model - wall or floor).

What to do with communications?

To achieve 100% invisibility of equipment, the boiler box in the kitchen may not be enough - in addition, you need to hide communications.You can hide them, like a column, in two ways: decor or box.

In the first case pipes are painted in the color of the background (walls, apron, cabinet) or make it deliberately stand out. For example, the original coloring for bamboo, twine wrapping looks beautiful.

A great option for a kitchen with pipes and a boiler is the loft style. In it, both parts of the equipment look not only appropriate, but decorative. Black communications on a white background or copper on brick wall.

If the decision is made to put it into the box, a special design will be required, because access to the pipes may be needed at any time. That is, it will not work tightly to sew it into drywall, trim must be removable or collapsible... For this purpose, you can purchase a special ready-made cable channel or make it yourself from any available material.

Important! When making a collapsible in case of an accident, but not a removable structure, be sure to leave the inspection hatch - through it there should be direct access to the valve, meter.

Whichever way you choose to hide the boiler with pipes, remember the main thing: safety is always more important than beauty! Before starting work, all the nuances should be taken into account - heating, air circulation, urgent repairs.