How to choose the board? Just read this article!

After the Spring Festival, friends who are renovating their homes have started to choose home decoration boards for their new homes. Faced with a wide variety of boards on the market, such as blockboard, plywood, integrated board, and OSB (European Particle Board), friends are unsure how to choose the right board for their home.

Although merchants have given various boards many nice names, each board has its own advantages and disadvantages. Today, I will teach you how to choose the board you like!

01. Look at the craftsmanship

When selecting boards, you should pay attention to the craftsmanship of the board production. Good decorative boards should have a good aesthetic appearance, the material should be fine and uniform, the color should be clear, the wood grain should be beautiful, the texture of the board matching and the parquet should be arranged according to a certain pattern, the wood color should be similar, and the joints should be almost parallel to the board edges.

02. Look at the color and glossiness

Observe the board from the surface to see if there are obvious defects. The surface of the decorative board should be smooth, without burrs and planing knife marks, no glue penetration and board surface pollution (such as local blackening or yellowing). Try to choose boards with no cracks, cracks, knots, skin, resin sacs and gum channels on the surface.

03. Check the flatness

Touch the board and you'll find excellent surface treatment. A good board should have a smooth, flat surface with minimal natural warping. It should feel smooth to the touch, with no particles, dents, or pricking sensations. Pay attention to the stability of the board's adhesive layer and whether there's any debonding, particularly between the veneer and the base material, and between the layers within the base material.

04. Look at the hardness

The board should have a certain hardness. Good boards have good hardness and strength. Even if they are scratched by gravity or sharp objects, no scratches will appear and the surface of the board will remain smooth as before.

05. Smell

Choose boards with low formaldehyde emission and avoid decorative boards with pungent odors. The stronger the odor, the higher the formaldehyde emission, the more serious the pollution, and the greater the harm.

06. Look at the trademark

The boards produced by regular manufacturers have the manufacturer's trademark, anti-counterfeiting mark, and usually have spray codes (located on the side or back). Everyone should carefully look at whether there are marks on the home decoration boards to identify the source of the boards.

07. Test report

The boards produced by regular merchants all have board inspection reports. You can ask the merchants to produce the inspection reports and pay attention to whether the various indicators in the reports meet the national standards.

After reading this tip, if you still don’t know how to choose the board, then choose a big brand, which has a certain quality guarantee.

The boards have high-quality base materials, and each board is refined through more than twenty processes. These tedious step-by-step processes can ultimately produce high-quality products.