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Kitchen Doors
What's in a kitchen door?
Well, actually, there is a lot required for a kitchen door to be produced correctly in order to stand the test of time.
The kitchen door is subjected to all sorts of extremes of temperature and humidity. It gets coated in acid and oils from cooking and people's fingers (especially during food preparation), and it is often subjected to cleaning chemicals and strong detergents and then, finally, knocks and bumps.
Most of the kitchen industry is good at providing kitchen doors that will stand up to some of the treatments mentioned above, but only a fraction of them provide doors that will actually combat general wear and tear. Danish Designer Kitchens are so confident in the method they use to create their doors that they provide a 15-year full-service written warranty on all of their work.
Polyurethane is by far the best finish to use on any
kitchen door-
it can withstand the treatments listed above and has the added benefit of coming in a range of colours. When complete, the door looks very refined and elegant. However, using polyurethane as a coating (as most kitchen companies do) does not ensure success for longevity.
The most important aspect of correctly making a polyurethane kitchen door is to apply the right thickness of the coating called the 'build'. The problem with most kitchen companies is that they provide poly doors with a low build and these will not stand the test of time. (They are particularly subject to damage through knocks and bumps as the coating chips off readily). A good test of what thickness or build a coating is likely to be is to check whether the back of the doors have also been coated. If they are not then you can be sure the build is low. Here's why. If a high-build coating is applied to only one face of the door then the faces have substantially different material properties and the doors will warp. This is due to each face having a different coefficient of expansion.
Danish Designer Kitchens are the only kitchen company in Sydney who spray both sides of the doors with an even polyurethane paint thickness. The added benefits to this process are that the doors are more resilient to abrasion and knocks and bumps, they are fully sealed from the environment and, of course, they are dimensionally stable. The diagram on the left illustrates this process.
Solid timber and timber veneer kitchen doors are also quality materials offered by Danish Designer Kitchens and, again, if produced correctly, can provide all the criteria for longevity. Without going into the same in-depth explanation as above, there are many unique design features that Danish Designer Kitchens use in order to make timber doors last. Please phone a design consultant to find out more if you are interested in this style of door.
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