How to choose the right board material? This article has everything you need!

After the Spring Festival, many people who are renovating their homes are starting to choose building materials for their new homes. Faced with a wide variety of materials on the market, such as plywood, engineered wood panels, and OSB (Oriented Strand Board), many are unsure how to choose the right material for their home.

Although manufacturers give various types of boards many appealing names, each type has its own advantages and disadvantages. Today, I'll teach you how to choose the right boards for you!

01. Examine the craftsmanship

When selecting boards, pay attention to the craftsmanship of the boards. Good decorative boards should have a good aesthetic appearance, fine and uniform material, clear color, beautiful wood grain, and the texture of the boards and the inlay should be arranged in a certain pattern, with similar wood color, and the seams should be almost parallel to the edges of the boards.

02. Observe the color and gloss.

When inspecting the board surface, check for obvious defects. The surface of the decorative board should be smooth, without burrs or planing marks, and without glue seepage or surface contamination (such as local blackening or yellowing). Try to select boards with no cracks, fissures, knots, bark inclusions, resin sacs, or resin ducts.

03. Check the flatness

Touching the board reveals its surface quality. A good board will have a smooth, flat surface with minimal warping. It will feel smooth to the touch, without any particles, dents, or a prickly sensation. Pay attention to the stability of the adhesive layer structure, checking for any signs of delamination. Specifically, check the relationship between the veneer and the substrate, and between the layers within the substrate.

04. Check the hardness

The board should have a certain degree of hardness. Good boards have excellent hardness and strength. Even if you scratch them with heavy objects or sharp objects, there will be no scratches, and the surface of the board will remain smooth and clean.

05. Smell

Choose boards with low formaldehyde emissions and avoid those with a pungent odor. A stronger odor indicates higher formaldehyde emissions, greater pollution, and greater harm.

06. Check the trademark

Boards produced by reputable manufacturers have the manufacturer's trademark and anti-counterfeiting mark, and usually have inkjet printing (located on the side or back). Please check carefully whether there are markings on the home decoration boards to identify the origin of the boards.

07. Test Report

Reputable manufacturers produce boards with testing reports. You can ask the manufacturer to provide the test report and pay attention to whether the various indicators on the report meet national standards.

If you're still unsure how to choose boards after reading this tip, then choose a well-known brand, as they offer a certain level of quality assurance.

The boards have high-quality base materials, and each board undergoes more than twenty processes to be refined. These meticulous processes are necessary to produce high-quality products.