The trend of retro furniture has swept the furniture market, and many businesses have launched imitation wood to make old furniture to meet the needs of consumers. However, many consumers have such a misunderstanding of purchasing, thinking that wooden furniture is green furniture. For this reason, Life Home specially visited relevant experts and told consumers in detail how to choose a satisfactory wooden furniture!
Wooden furniture does not mean green home Four attention to the purchase of solid wood furniture
Four Attentions When Purchasing Imitation Wood Furniture
It is understood that in the current furniture market, wooden furniture has become a major product in the furniture category because of its novel styles, bright colors, and clear wood grains. Coupled with the relatively moderate price of the product, it is more and more favored by consumers. Experts suggest that when consumers purchase wooden furniture, understanding and mastering the technical requirements of wooden furniture and distinguishing its advantages and disadvantages is an effective way to correctly purchase wooden furniture.
focus on surface quality
Wood-based panel furniture in wood furniture is based on particleboard, medium-density fiberboard and other wood-based panels, and the surface is decorated with melamine, PVC, wood veneer and paper wood grain. The imitation wood grain pattern is clear and natural, smooth and flat , has a good visual effect and feel. When purchasing furniture, it mainly depends on whether the surface of the furniture material has scratches, indentations, bubbling, degumming, peeling and glue marks and other defects.
focus on production quality
In the production of wooden furniture, the formed boards are cut and sawed, decorated and edged, and the components are assembled. The production quality of wood-based panel furniture mainly depends on the quality of its cutting and sawing, the quality of edge and surface decoration and the quality of panel ports. There are quality requirements for the straightness, verticality, and angle of the plate parts in the sawing of the plate. Generally speaking, the sawing technology of the plate can meet the accuracy requirements within 0.01 mm per meter. Well, after the furniture is made, there will be no plate tilting. The side and surface decoration mainly depends on whether the glue on the decorative parts is uniform, whether the bonding is firm, whether the trimming is smooth and smooth, whether the end faces of the visible parts such as side panels, door panels, drawer panels, etc. There is no trace of bonding on the edge of the fine board. The assembly and combination mainly depends on whether the grooves at the drilling holes are exquisite and neat, whether the connecting parts are firm after installation, whether there is any gap in the T-shaped seam after the plane and the end face are connected, and whether there is any looseness when pushing by hand. Whether the gap between doors and drawers is too large, the general requirements are between 1.5mm and 2.0mm, whether the opening and sliding of doors and drawers are flexible, etc.
Pay attention to the quality of metal parts and plastic parts
Metal parts and plastic parts are often used as fastening joints in wooden furniture, so the quality of metal parts also determines the inherent quality of wooden furniture. Metal parts require dexterity, smoothness, good surface plating treatment, no rust, burrs, etc., and high precision of matching parts. Plastic parts should be beautiful in shape and bright in color, and the parts of the force in use should have strength and elasticity, and should not be too thin. The open connection requires flexible rotation, and the spring installed inside should be properly tightened, so that the furniture will be stable, easy, and free of friction when it is opened and used.
Focus on major dimensions
Wooden furniture is currently on the market mainly as complete sets of bedroom furniture and office furniture. In addition, there are multi-functional film and television electrical cabinets and other products. The main dimensions (that is, functional dimensions) of its furniture are stipulated in national standards. For example, the depth of the space in the hanging wardrobe stipulated by the large wardrobe should be greater than or equal to 530mm, the distance between the upper edge of the clothes hanging rod for hanging long clothes and the upper surface of the bottom plate should be greater than or equal to 1400mm, the height of the table furniture is 680mm to 760mm, and the middle drawer of the writing desk The middle clearance height from the lower edge to the ground level should be greater than or equal to 580mm, and the clearance height between bookcase layers should be greater than or equal to 230mm to 310mm. The main dimensions mentioned above mainly refer to the attention to be paid when purchasing furniture, because if the furniture is smaller than the specified size, it will bring a lot of inconvenience during use and affect the use of furniture. If the space depth of the large wardrobe is too small, it will affect the hanging of clothes, resulting in the phenomenon that the door cannot be closed.
Smell the real wood
For the majority of consumers, it is impossible to recognize all solid wood, so the following points should be kept in mind:
Look at the wooden stubble to see if there are looped lines or whether the arc-shaped pinholes (pipe holes) are regular, and to see if there are straight lines or curves between the wood. If there are these lines, it can be judged that it is a wood-based panel. (Wood veneer), because the real solid wood has no beautiful texture except rosewood and camphor wood.
Smell pure wood has its own special taste, even after long-term storage or painting, it still has a smell, and many woods will retain a light taste, such as pine wood has a smell of turpentine, cypress has a light fragrance, cedar has a spicy taste, and fir wood has a pungent smell. Unique smell, camphor wood will have obvious camphor smell, basswood will have a slight oily smell, mahogany will have a strong spicy aroma at the incision, walnut will have a slight pungent nose, many domestic woods have no smell, and artificial The board will have a strong smell of chemical materials, such as formaldehyde, Sanlu hydrogen ammonia, etc., which will be easy to identify.
Knocking the solid wooden parts with your hands will make a crisper sound, while the wood-based panels will have a low sound, and the wooden parts of the box will make a drumming sound.
According to the weight of wood, it is divided into three grades. The light-weight ones include dried paulownia wood, the middle-weight ones include pine wood, basswood, autumn wood, etc. In northern my country, the medium-density woods are called soft miscellaneous woods (except pine wood), and the heavyweight ones except mahogany, In addition to hardwoods such as rosewood and rosewood, oak, ash, birch and imported lauan wood are all called hardwoods. In summary, the wood furniture mentioned above is lighter than particleboard and medium-density fiberboard furniture.
