Furniture edge: forms, types and application at home

Furniture edge - a useful element for masters, manufactures furniture with his own hands, and for any host. With its help you will be able to revive the old utensils and protect it from rapid destruction. Perhaps not everyone knows what kind of useful inventions, we are talking about. Then we analyze what Furniture edge of what her views are and what it is used at all.

If you are making furniture with their hands, you are familiar with the need to process ends. After cutting boards, this procedure is necessary. Especially it is useful for particleboard, since water can enter and dirt in unprotected saw cut.

In this case, the product will deteriorate faster. It is used for furniture edges Spila processing.

This product is a finishing material, narrow strip of melamine or other materials intended to be fastened to the ends of the furniture. Its main function - a protective and decorative. It hides the space, where a layer of chipboard inside visible. It is known that this wood-chip material, and it has several unsightly appearance. Furniture edge in this case is simply salvation.

The second function - protective. In addition to protection of the furniture, it helps to avoid injuries and puffs on clothes. Sawn chipboard edges are sharp and often spoil the clothes of them as you can get hurt. Especially they are not safe for the kitchen and the nursery. Therefore, edge processing - is necessary. A furniture edges for this purpose the best.

species

There are several kinds of edges. They mainly differ according to composition, thickness and appearance.

Thus, we present the most popular types.

View	Description
Melamine	The most common for home use. This ribbon of melamine on the reverse side of which a layer of an adhesive activatable by heat. It is inexpensive, but the quality is no different; afraid of water, and its service life is small, even with careful treatment.
PVC	The best option in terms of price and quality. It is used in most of today's products. PVC tape represents 2 or 0,4mm. Thicker used for processing the outer sides, and thin - for sections on the back side of the product. this type of treatment is carried out only in the workplace, as a special tool is required for this.
ABS plastic	Also a good option, similar to the previous, but has a more eco-friendly composition. On sale is extremely rare. Used in furniture production in the factory.
Mortise T-profile	In today's production is rarely used, but in the sale occurs. This is a more reliable option than the previous ones. T-profile has a solid base and a large thickness. Predominantly made of laminated chipboard. It has a tenon joint. The profile have thorns, which are inserted into the slots on the furniture (pre-drilled).
Surface profile C 18	Used for a long time. It is still popular in the manufacture of furniture both at work and at home. It represents an inflexible tape chipboard, which fits over the trimmed part of the plate and fastened liquid nails. Pretty simple to use, so common in the self-production of furniture. The downside is its location. The lip protrudes a few millimeters beyond the furniture, thus increasing its size, and thus a protrusion clogged mud.

At home, the most frequently used melamine edge. It is easy to use and is available in a large range in the construction market.

Apply the lip with his own hands

Process edge sections via PVC is only possible in the production. This procedure is not difficult to order when buying plates, or as a separate service. But if you only need to repair old furniture, or just do not want to handle the production, you can treat the saw cut in such a way at home.

To do this, you must purchase a melamine edge. Also prepare:

• Building dryer or an old iron
• sandpaper;
• office building or a knife;
• cloth;
• stand with the function of fixing parts (suitable vise or helping someone).

Stocks more agility and can move on to work.

1. Fix the part to be treated side up.
   

   Puts the workpiece edge band

2. Measure the length of the edge of the processed and cut with the necessary amount of edge margin of a few centimeters, as by heating it slightly sits down.
   

   Select the edge and cut to size

3. Now attach the lining material with the product and carefully heat it with an iron or hairdryer.
   

   Detail record and cut edge with a margin of a few centimeters, heated iron

4. Until it has cooled down and the glue has hardened, it is necessary to walk on the surface of the cloth, smoothing and pressing the material.
   

   While she does not need to cool down with a cloth well to press the edge band

1. After working in this way the entire surface, we proceed to the final stage. Now you need to trim the surplus. To take this building or stationery knife holding it at an angle to the plate, cut off the excess material.
   

   Trim any excess, first cut end parts, and then those that run along

2. Treat the sections with sandpaper, removing their sharpness. Take careful handling to prevent damage to the stove.
   

   After the remains cut off from the part, all of the edges along the edges of details overwritten "nozhdachkoy"

3. Wipe the product with a damp cloth to remove dust and dirt - the work is over.
   

   Glued edges on the ends of the parts

Thus it is possible to handle small products, bulkier best left to professionals.

Advantages and disadvantages of processing in the home

The self-treatment will always be both advantages and disadvantages. As a rule, the positive aspects more. In this case, an undoubted advantage is the speed and price performance. You do not have to wait until the product comes out of production, will not need to issue an order and pick it up. Of course, do the work yourself, you pay only for the edge.

The downside is the limited choice, since you can put yourself only melamine edge slip or mortise profile (quite rare).

Treat small surface with a melamine edge is quite simple, and it is better to do it at home. But the great products that require the application of PVC edge best left to professionals.

Video: Types of end edges of chipboard