How to Choose Decorative Materials?

Although in home decoration, consumers can choose decoration materials according to their preferences and budget. But in the specific use of materials and collocation, there are some rules to follow, and if you violate these laws, not only the decoration effect will be greatly reduced, but also waste a lot of renovation costs. There are some aspects to consider as follows:

1. Home decoration materials harm on the human body
Currently, there are a large number of polymer decoration materials on the market. Some of these new decoration materials may bring pollution on indoor air, and some plastic wallpaper distribute persistent and revolting odor. However, the decorative wall paper is environment protection. Some people are even allergic to some polymer materials volatiles, so as to affect mood and appetite, or skin irritation. Although some decoration materials are novel, such as fluorescent materials, they contain radioactive elements, which also have harmful effects on the human body. In fact, hydrogen sulfide, sulfurous acid, and the dilution of decorative coatings have pollution on air.

2. To avoid decoration materials to offset the decorative effect
If plastering mortar on the inner wall, its decoration effect is to absorption moisture (when the indoor humidity is high) and release moisture (when the indoor humidity is low and dry) in function, this function is usually called "respiratory function". This "respiration" is very useful in regulating the indoor humidity and air quality. If the interior surface is pasted with this plastic wallpaper, adding a layer of wallpaper glue layer will greatly reduce natural respiration effect. This approach is sacrificing the useful functions of the original interior wall surface in exchange for superficial decorative beauty.



3. Should pay attention to fire safety
At present, the flammability issues of the decorating materials sold in China still lack the necessary standards. We should be particularly careful in the selection of decoration materials. Home improvement is the secondary processing of inner surface of the wall, especially the ceiling material is more easily overlooked its fire hazard. If the material used is not flame retardant, once the fire broke out, home decoration materials will first be lit on fire, so the kitchen roof and interior finishes should try to use inorganic materials.
4. Are the expensive decoration materials necessary?
If you use expensive natural marble to decorate the bedroom floor, then function price ratio may be desired. Because natural marble is hard, especially in the cold season in northern China, hard smooth surface makes people feel cold and muscle contraction. For the frail elderly and young children, they are easy to slip when walking on the ground, and they will be psychologically insecure.

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The Manufacturing Process of Melamine Faced Chipboard

The melamine faced chipboard is a kind of composite material belonging to new-type building decoration materials, can also be called as particle board, which is an engineered wood product manufactured from wood chips, sawmill shavings, or even saw dust, and a synthetic resin or other suitable binder, which is pressed and extruded.



Melamine chipboard's raw material is fed into a disc chipper with between four and sixteen radially arranged blades, and it is produced by mixing wood particles or flakes together with a resin and forming the mix into a board. When the resin is in liquid form, it is then sprayed through nozzles onto the particles. And it is said that melamine is an important organic chemical intermediate products, mainly used to produce melamine resin, have excellent water resistance, heat resistance, arc resistance, and excellent fire retardant. Surface uses melamine and has flatness high, abrasion-resisting. The chipboards are first dried, after which any oversized or undersized particles are screened out.

There are several types of resins which have been widely used, including Amino, formaldehyde based resins, Urea Melamine resins, Phenol formaldehyde and Melamine Urea phenolic formaldehyde resins. The first kind of resins is the best performing when considering cost and ease of use; Urea Melamine resins are used to offer water resistance with increased melamine offering enhanced resistance; Phenol formaldehyde is typically used where the panel is used in external applications due to the increased water resistance offered by phenolic resins and also the color of the resin resulting in a darker panel; Melamine Urea phenolic formaldehyde resins exist as a compromise. Melamine formaldehyde resin is a thermosetting polymer. Transparent fireproof coating for wood based on melamine-formaldehyde resin as raw materials has good decorating property and fireproof property as well. To enhance the panel properties even further the use of resorcinol resins typically mixed with phenolic resins are used, but this is usually used with plywood for marine applications and a rare occasion in panel production.

When the resin is mixed with the melamine faced chipboard, the liquid mixture is made into a sheet. A weighing device notes the weight of flakes, and they are distributed into position by rotating rakes. In graded-density particleboard, the flakes are spread by an air jet that throws finer particles further than coarse ones. Two such jets, reversed, allow the particles to build up from fine to coarse and back to fine.

The sheets formed are then cold-compressed to reduce their thickness and make them easier to transport. Later, they are compressed again, under pressures between two and three megapascals and temperatures between 140 degrees Celsius and 220 degrees Celsius. This process sets and hardens the glue. All aspects of this entire process must be carefully controlled to ensure the correct size, density and consistency of the board. Finally, the boards are then cooled, trimmed and sanded. They can then be sold as raw board or surface improved through the addition of a wood veneer or laminate surface.