When buying cabinets, don’t just look at colors and styles, but also look at hardware

When buying cabinets, many consumers are easily attracted by styles and colors and ignore the hardware. Cabinet hardware plays an important role in its comfort, quality and longevity, so you must not ignore these seemingly small but critical components when purchasing.

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Experts said that the cabinet doors have to be opened and closed many times a day. The hinges not only need to connect to the door panels of the cabinet body, but also bear the weight of the door panels alone. High-quality hinges will open and close hundreds of thousands of times continuously when the door panels load more than ten kilograms to ensure the door panels. Does not sink.

The hinge opening and closing effect and durability are basic requirements. The second is adjustability: the adjustable range of up and down, left and right, front and rear is ±2mm; the opening angle should be above 90 degrees, and it can be stopped at any angle, and it can be automatically closed at 15 degrees, and has a certain corrosion resistance And safety.

Tip: Some cheap hinges are very laborious to open and close, and they can only have two positions, either closed or fully expanded, and cannot be stopped in the middle. Such hinges are best not to buy.

Hanging yard: Bearing gravity is the key

Cabinet hardware, hanging cabinet is the main force to support hanging cabinet. The hanging piece is fixed on the wall, and the hanging code is fixed on both sides of the left and right upper corner of the hanging cabinet. After hanging, the positioning adjustment can be carried out up and down, front and back. Finally, the cabinet body combiner is added to ensure the fixing quality and use effect. The quality requirements of special assembly: each hanging yard shall be able to bear 50kg vertical hanging force; it shall have three-dimensional adjustment function; the plastic parts shall be flame retardant, without cracks and marks. However, in order to save cost, some small manufacturers use screws to fix the hanging cabinet through the wall. This method is neither beautiful nor safe, and it is very troublesome to adjust the position. Slide rail: both sides must be leveled

Professionals say that the importance of the slide rail is second only to the hinge, and the better sliding function should be the natural combination of stability and load-bearing effect. Under the rated load-bearing condition, there is no obvious friction sound and jam phenomenon, and the sliding is smooth. It plays an important role in the use effect and service life of drawer. At present, there are two common types in the market: the "iron plate slide" and the "damping slide". The general bearing capacity of the iron plate slide is about 35 kg, and the damping slide is between 45 kg and 70 kg. It is not only silent, but also greatly increased. According to professionals, the damping slide rail can reduce the noise caused by severe mechanical collision and prevent premature aging of metal parts. At the same time, it has the function of automatic dust removal.

Tip: if there is a problem with the slide rail, in addition to the poor quality of the product, there is also a reason for improper installation, which may be caused by the non leveling of both sides.

Pull basket: carefully selected, tailored

If the hinge, slide rail and other hardware are basic accessories to ensure the quality, then the basket is related to the future use of the kitchen is comfortable, convenient and fashionable functional accessories. The pull basket has a large storage space, and can reasonably divide the space, so that all kinds of goods and appliances' have their own place ', but also can make full use of the space at the corner, to maximize the use value of the space.

According to the introduction of the cabinet designer, according to different uses, the pull basket can be divided into stove pull basket, three side pull basket, drawer pull basket, bowl pull basket, deep pull basket, corner pull basket, etc. At the time of purchase, consumers had better introduce their living habits to businesses, and let businesses help you choose the most suitable type of basket for your home.

Tip: the pull basket style of a cabinet brand store is limited. After you choose a cabinet brand, you can go to other cabinet stores to see their pull basket style, or go to the hardware sales area of the building materials market. If you choose the pull basket of non cabinet cooperation brand, you'd better take the designer to field measurement, so as to avoid trouble when installing in the future.