Chipboard: sheet size, thickness, and material costs, manufacturers

In recent years, significantly increased the demand for chipboard, which are used not only in the manufacture of furniture, but and in the construction and repair work - from roughing to finishing the walls of decorative floor mounting coverage. The market offers a huge selection of chipboard: leaf size, colors, textures and styles are represented in a wide range. How to determine the best value for money, and what are the main characteristics you should pay attention - this article will tell.

Advantages and disadvantages of chipboard

Chipboard - a type well known to particle board (chipboard). This material has long enjoyed high demand from domestic and foreign builders and furniture manufacturers.

Among the main advantages of chipboard - its low cost. Thanks to that used for the manufacture of chipboard production wastes (shavings and sawdust), and then simply crushed trunks substandard, the price for it at times less than MDF or natural wood.

In other undoubted advantages of this composite material are considered to be its strength, ease of processing, stability mechanical damage, as well as a wide variety of species, most significantly increases the scope of its application.

Among the disadvantages of chipboard - the lack of moisture. Under the influence of water, plates swell and deform. The same occurs at high temperatures. Also, their constituent resin, evaporating, can cause considerable harm to human health. This composite material is also characterized by high flexibility and can crumble when you try to install a second fixture.

Types of chipboard and their scope

Depending on the level of environmental safety release 2 class DSP - E1 and E2 classes. Chipboard class E1 is considered the most secure, because its composition contains less formaldehyde resins. The content of harmful substances in the class E2 plates does not allow to use them in the manufacture of children's furniture. Moreover, in recent years in the EU there has been a gradual reduction in its production. In Europe, allocate another class particleboard panels - Super E. Materials of this class are absolutely safe, but differ excessively high cost.

Useful advice! Experts emphasize that it is better to buy sheets of chipboard, manufactured by European standards, known for its rigor in safety issues for the environment and health person. Contents formaldehyde resins are at times less than that of the slabs manufactured in accordance with national or even American standards.

In appearance DSP is divided into 3 grades. Plates first grade made only of high quality raw materials, they have no defects and at the final stage of production of the special coated decorative foil or veneer. This variety is used in the manufacture of furniture.

Coating is not required for the second grade plates, allowed small scratches or chipped edges. Particleboard third kind are often made of raw materials containing foreign matter or from bark chips, they have visible defects - chips, cracks, roughness. The last two varieties are mainly used in construction - as a rough finishing, flooring, leveling walls and ceilings, shuttering manufacturing.

In addition, particle board are:

• untreated (they are used for rough decoration);
• polished (used in the manufacture of furniture, but only hidden from the eyes of the elements);
• laminated (applied as a coating specially treated paper);
• veneered (on both sides of a sheet coated with a thin layer of wood, which gives them decorative appearance, and allows you to use them for faces of furniture and decoration premises);
• laminated (sheet particleboard coated polymeric film).

Especially slabs of chipboard

Chipboard is made exclusively from high-polished chipboard in accordance with GOST 10632-2007. They are deprived of the disadvantages of other chipboards: strong, not afraid couple mold and moisture, chemical and mechanical effects, and the special melamine foil edges and edge finishing significantly reduce the level of harmful vapors and increase the wear resistance material.

Due to such characteristics, chipboard plates can be used for furniture and decoration, including including for kitchens, hallways and bathrooms, closets, office and children's furniture, as a floor coverage.

Chipboard on the market a huge number of colors and textures allows you to simulate any material up to the stone, marble, metal or fabric, and fit into any color scheme or style of the interior at a very modest cost money.

Chipboard do not require further processing or dyeing. For the manufacture of furniture panels and worktops enough to cut chipboard sheet purchased in accordance with the prescribed size and edge okromtsevat.

Important! Process edge is necessary not only to increase the durability and appearance of the material, to protect it from moisture and steam, but also in order to prevent evaporation of harmful substances.

However, this is the main drawback of this material - the need for a special machine for cutting laminated chipboard and edging. However, at the present time any hardware store or shop for furniture manufacturing provides a service to cut chipboard size customer.

Another disadvantage is that due to the crumbling edges of such boards are not suitable for creating a complex curved contours and carved elements.

Chipboard: sheet size. Basic parameters of length, width and thickness

Standard sheet sizes are regulated GOST chipboard. Accordingly, the width indicators determined standard length and sheet thickness.

Basic dimensions chipboard

There are 18 standard length indicators 1830, 2040, 2440, 2500, 2600, 2700, 2750, 2840, 3220, 3500, 3600, 3660, 3690, 3750, 4100, 5200, 5500 and 5680 mm. In this allowable inaccuracy the length of ± 5 mm.

The width of the chipboard plates 9 is determined indicators 1220, 1250, 1500, 1750, 1800, 1830, 2135, 2440 and 2500 mm. As in the case of long, permissible error not exceeding ± 5 mm.

Thickness chipboard ranges from 3 to 38 mm when the allowable error ± 0,3 mm.

It should be clarified that, depending on the equipment, each manufacturer produces several major chipboard sizes, but the most popular on the market are the following:

• 2800h2620 mm;
• 2800h2070 mm;
• 2620h1830 mm;
• 2500h1830 mm.

The thickness of the chipboard sheets

From chipboard thickness depends their strength and ability to resist stress, and hence the scope. It is important to remember that heavy thick plates characterized by high strength, but thin chipboard bend without undergoing deformation.

In most cases, the thickness of the chipboard ranges from 8 to 38 mm. 8-10-mm sheets are used for packaging production, the bottoms of drawers, doors and wall cladding as well as for furniture fronts.

Thickness 16 mm is widely used in furniture, interior partitions for the construction and as a substrate under flooring (linoleum or laminate). Sheets of 18 mm thickness can also serve as a basis for a floor covering, but often they are used for the manufacture of furniture, including cloakrooms and wardrobes. 22-mm plate suitable for the manufacture of kitchen furniture, countertops, tables.

For load-bearing elements, window and door slabs is used in thickness of 25 mm. But for the manufacture of long-life bar counters, shelves and tabletops reliable optimal choice will be sheets of chipboard 38 mm. They will be able to withstand the strong mechanical loads and do not deform. It should be noted that the most popular are sheets of laminated chip thickness 10, 16, 18 and 25 mm.

The important characteristic in the manufacture of furniture and various building and repair work is also the weight plates. It is determined by the dimensions of the sheet and its density. The average weight of the sheet ranges from 40 to 90 kg. For example, a weight of 1 square meter of 16 mm chipboard averages 10,36-11,39 kg. When the thickness of the plate 18 mm will make it 11,65-12,82 kg, 25 mm - from 14.69 to 16.16 kg. Different manufacturers of this figure will be slightly different.

Useful advice! Before you buy a slab of chipboard, it is necessary to calculate the size correctly. This will not only ensure the strength and durability of the finished product, but also help to avoid unnecessary financial costs, guarantees a minimum of residual material and significantly saves time.

How to choose and buy chipboard: leading manufacturers

As mentioned above, each manufacturer launches its options chipboard sizes, due to the capacity of its equipment.

Typical dimensions of the sheet of chipboard Egger - 2800h2070 mm. Such a uniform size does not prevent the Austrian company to successfully compete on the European and domestic market. Because in addition to the excellent quality pure raw materials and a vast range of colors, it offers its customers and a good choice for this plate thickness - 10, 16, 18, 25 mm or even unconventional 19 mm, which also distinguishes it from products competitors.

In contrast, the only universal size Egger chipboard, Syktyvkar Plywood Mill offers buyers to choose the size of chipboard 3 Lamarti -2800h2070, 2750h1830 3660h1830 mm and with a thickness of 10, 16, 18 and 26 mm. Reasonable prices, quality materials and richness of colors allow chipboard Lamarti successfully fight for his place in the domestic market to foreign companies.

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Another Austrian company Kronospan chipboard produces two standard sizes - 2620h1830 and 2800h2070 mm. Thus Kronoshpan offers considerable thickness range for this plate (8, 10, 12, 16, 18, 22, 25 and 28 mm), and a wide palette of colors, the richness of texture, durability, and environmental friendliness reliability.

SwissPan company produces chipboard following dimensions:

• 2750h1830h10 mm;
• 2750h1830h16 mm;
• 2750h1830h18 mm;
• 2440h1830h16 mm;
• 2440h1830h18 mm;
• 2440h1830h22 mm;
• 2440h1830h25 mm.

Products of this company are in great demand among manufacturers of kitchen furniture and wardrobes.

Chipboard factory "Neva laminate" manufactured in one size - 2440h1830 mm thick sheet 8, 10, 16 and 22 mm. Said sheet size chipboard 16 mm thick is most popular among consumers. Good quality, low price and compliance with European standards, as well as a great selection of colors and textures explains the steady demand for its products in the domestic market.

What affects the cost of chipboard panels

Plate Value is determined not only by the size and thickness of the sheet of chipboard, the price of the material also depends on:

• raw material quality (if it contains, for example, foreign matter in the form of a crust, or, alternatively, made of the same wood species);
• the amount of harmful substances in the composition;
• addition, if used in its manufacture and a decorative covering is - veneer, paper, a melamine film special varnish;
• the appearance of the finished product;
• production of the country.

In the case of chipboard these factors somewhat offset because for manufacturing use only high-quality sanded chipboard sheets, without foreign inclusions, and the majority of foreign companies long ago discovered domestic production.

Important! It is worth paying attention to, if you need to buy chipboard for the furniture: the price per page and price per square meter significantly different. However, most of the manufacturers for the convenience of customers indicate both prices.

The cost of different sizes chipboard 16 mm

Price per sheet of 16 mm thick chipboard from different manufacturers will vary somewhat. So, to buy chipboard Egger, will have to pay depending on the color and decor from 1913 to 4220 rubles. For comparison, the price for a sheet of chipboard 10 mm is 1762 rubles. (White base) and 3292 rubles. (Oak Halifax tobacco). Price per sheet of chipboard 16 mm from the company Kronospan ranges from 1,046 to 2,080 rubles.

Price sheet of 16 mm chipboard by Lamarti 2750h1830 mm is from 204 to 457 rub. / M2 (on the official website the cost per square meter is specified, rather than a sheet of chipboard, it is necessary to pay attention to the calculation of prices). Buy a sheet of chipboard on the basis of a moisture-resistant plant "Nevsky laminate" can be estimated for 1500 rubles.

When calculating the final cost is also necessary to take into account the cost of sawing chipboard size. From the size of a sheet of chipboard and the price edging, respectively, will depend. Buy chipboard with a saw cut can be specialized in DIY stores or order a similar service in the shops where the equipment available to the program for cutting chipboard.

Independently saw plate is not recommended. Given the characteristics of the material, its edge just crumble, and chipped. However, major construction shops often offer their customers as a bonus with the purchase of chipboard free sawing and edging.