Understanding custom furniture starts with knowing the hinges

The quality of the hinge directly determines the quality of the furniture

In fact, the hinge is kind of an old friend of ours, although low-key, but very reliable.

The hinge is the connection of the cabinet body, but also the load-bearing part of the cabinet door, and it is the most commonly used opening and closing part by us, which has the deepest relationship with our use experience. Whether the hinge is good or bad directly determines the quality of the furniture.

Distinguish good from the hinge material

The common high-quality hinges on the market use carbon structural steel, which is first made of hot-rolled steel strip and further cold-rolled to make steel strip with a thickness of less than 4mm. Because it is rolled at room temperature and does not produce iron oxide, the surface quality of cold-rolled steel strip is good, the dimensional accuracy is high, and coupled with annealing treatment, its mechanical properties and process properties are excellent. The poor quality hinge is very easy to rust after a period of use, which is not beautiful and affects the use effect of the hinge. In fact, there are indeed companies that make low-quality high-quality in order to higher profits, selling fake and shoddy products, such hinges are not durable, and may break after a period of use. However, such a situation cannot be effectively judged at all at the purchase or even installation stage.

So how can you tell the difference between high-quality hinges that "do not rust and are as smooth as new"? I offer the most hassle-free solution – choosing a brand. The second is to ask the merchant to issue a certificate at the time of purchase and ask carefully.