Painted and polished finishes developed especially for cast iron.

Our finishes are grouped into three price brackets starting with the Signature Collection which brings together our core range of popular whites, greys, and blacks. Alternatively, you can choose any colour from the huge palettes available from our favourite brands Farrow & Ball, Little Greene, or Benjamin Moore. At the top of the range, our Bare Metal finishes are produced by hand with layers of lacquer on polished cast iron.

Order Sample Sets

Get to know the look and feel of our finishes by ordering samples on real cast iron pieces delivered to your home in sets of six or individually.

Steel radiator colour samples also available

These samples correspond to cast iron radiator finishes only. If you are ordering Florence steel radiators and would like to see colour samples, please call us on 0161 439 9350 or email info@castrads.com.

Our core range of popular neutrals and monochrome finishes, developed especially for cast iron.

We have refined our painting process over the years ensuring the finish is hard-wearing and stays looking great.

Each radiator is dip primed and cured with infra-red, then dipped and cured again. After priming, radiators get two coats of hard-wearing two-pack paint, again with infra-red curing in between.

Black Iron is a new addition to the Signature collection. Here we use an acid-etch primer and three coats of two-pack lacquer to produce a smoky black whilst preserving the natural texture of the cast iron surface beneath.

Black Iron is a translucent lacquered finish that allows minor imperfections in the cast iron surface to show through. If you’re looking for a similar finish with a more uniform appearance see Astral Grey Dark.

Brilliant, lustrous finishes produced by hand using lacquers and specialist polishing techniques.

For the lacquered finishes we begin by tumbling the cast iron sections for 10 hours in a giant drum filled with ceramic pebbles. The sections are then tumbled for a further 8 hours with small porcelain beads and water. Powdered porcelain from the beads makes a paste with the water which gives a high shine to the surface of the iron. We then use layers of primer and tinted lacquers to create deep colours that allow the lustre of the metal to show through.

For the polished finishes as well as Natural Brass and Aged Gold, the process is entirely manual. Each section is carefully polished against a spinning wheel through 12 grades of increasingly fine abrasive to achieve the various effects. They are then lacquered to complete the finish.