Laminated facades for kitchens: chipboard panel

Kitchen laminated chipboard deemed budget embodiment, as the material for their manufacture prepared from recyclable materials. Wood chips is much cheaper than the array, and then pressed with various resins slightly inferior to whole board. To make the chipboard aesthetic appearance of paste over laminating film - so get the most popular material for the manufacture of furniture facades and buildings.

Advantages of laminated boards

With chipboard advantages for the production of kitchen furniture is difficult to argue:

• low cost;
• tidy appearance;
• good workability of the power tool;
• a variety of colors, textures and patterns.

Unlike conventional resin-bonded laminated products not only look attractive, they are also much safer. The dense impermeable film on their surface does not pass the composite fumes outwardly. It also protects the structure of the material from swelling under the influence of moisture, which the kitchen furniture is exposed to on a daily basis. Foil that performs all of these functions may have a thickness of 0.2-0.4 mm, though there are variations thicker coatings (up to 2 mm). In any case, the sun is almost does not fade, so that the furniture from chipboard, even several years after standing near the window sill, retain the original color.

The protective film also serves as a decorative purposes: with the help of chipboard panels can be given a desired color and texture. Matte surface or glossy shine with such a rich palette allow to pick up inexpensive furniture for the kitchen in any style.

Disadvantages of laminate kitchen

The care economy furniture quite capricious, because the coating on it is very thin. Its easy to scratch abrasive cleaners or rough handling with metal utensils. Also during the cleaning fluid can not be used, containing acid - they lead to a gradual darkening of the laminated surface.

Melamine coating is sensitive to high temperatures, so such furniture to be positioned at least 60 cm from the hot zones (plates, oven, gas column). If for some reason this is not possible, it is necessary to order the modules of chipboard with aluminum trim. They will protect the facades from thermal deformation, although slightly increase the cost.

The disadvantage of chipboard panels also considered the very basis of the loose structure. Because of this, the facades eventually sag on the fasteners as mounting holes collapse under the weight of the door - pressed shavings bad holding point loads. Especially often such problems arise when large thickness chipboard. But for horizontal elements (windowsills, countertops, Shelves), this negative is not so significant.

Kitchen facades of chipboard

Laminated pane thickness of 2-4 cm is used for the manufacture of shells. In the process of pressing it is possible to give a sufficiently high density, which has a positive effect on the strength characteristics of the furniture. But for doors and facades of kitchen drawers considered optimal panel thickness of 16 mm. This is an ideal size for mounting fixtures and fittings decorative plate with sufficient resistance to mechanical loads.

laminating technology has a significant impact on the durability of kitchen fronts. The weakest link in the articles of chipboard - this edge. It should cover damage to them, and live the kind of furniture will be a year or two. So there are different ways of handling and protecting the ends of pressed panels:

1. Acrylic or PVC furniture edge - the most short-lived for the kitchen option. However, it is possible to regularly update their own hands. Sales to find the desired width of the strip is not difficult, but they are glued using a conventional iron.
2. Postforming - a relatively new technology, which involves wrapping the facade solid sheet of plastic, without seams and joints. Thus the main problem is solved pressed board in the kitchen - moisture permeability by the edges. A similar technique is used in the manufacture of particle board-board for window-sills.
3. Aluminum profile - under such chipboard plates can be sealed with the thinnest film and unreliable. Metal frame provide complete safety to her and headset original appearance and long life.

The front part of chipboard also decorated differently. Ideally, film should literally be sintered under high pressure together with the molded plate. But today you can often find very very low cost options with so-called lamination - easy pasting multilayer paper impregnated with a polymer resin.

horizontal surfaces

In the kitchen of the laminate panels can be made not only furniture modules and facades. From 32-40 mm thick chipboard obtained good worktops, window sills and the console. These parameters provide high rigidity extruded plates, so you can load them fearlessly.

A big plus laminated panels that can be cut are the elements of any shape (of course, without fine detail). This allows you to, for example, multi-sill countertop, which will save a lot of space in the kitchen. Good will look laminated countertop work area. However, at the ends of the panel would have to close the aluminum corner by the sink and the cooker. Without them, protective edge DSP quickly will become worthless, and pressing will rapidly deteriorate.

For horizontal structures such as window sills, countertops, slabs is better to take the highest quality, for example, products of European manufacturers, and Egger Werzalit. Their main difference - the plastic film that can withstand moisture, high temperatures and even aggressive household chemicals.

And bars of this chipboard quietly carry constant contact with the heat source tables to +90 ° C and short - with tableware heated to +180 ° C. Sills of the same qualities do not lose their original color in the sun and perfectly maintained even subzero temperatures.