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We live in a pre-war building and our radiators are old but functional and not too noisy. They are, however, covered in dirty old paint.

We’d like to repaint them, and wonder if there’s a right or wrong way to do it. The paint guy at the hardware store said that you can just use regular latex paint, as long as the radiator wasn’t on and that there was time for it to cure.

Is this true? We’d rather have radiators that at least blended in with the room and weren’t that sprayed on silver color that they seem to come in.

Thanks!