The formaldehyde content standard that identifies green wood floor is environmental protection

With the promotion of low carbon environmental protection concept, the home building materials market has caused a lot of "environmental protection wind", in wooden floor industry, "green wood floor" became a kind of vogue and tide. Random visited some large home building materials market, found in the region of the wood floor, basic each brand with "environmental protection" "formaldehyde content is less than 1.0 mg/L" the combination of "green technology" "zero - formaldehyde floor" and other slogans. But are the wooden floors that label themselves "low formaldehyde" and "zero formaldehyde" really so green? What should the consumer pay attention to when choosing wooden floor?

The green wood floor becomes the home decoration keyword.

Now consumer when choosing the floor, ask whether environmental protection, formaldehyde content how to wait for a question first, environmental protection has become the primary consideration of floor of choose and buy.

Found every brand category, there are many kinds of floor wood floor according to the facts, three layers solid wood flooring, multi-layer solid mu fu joins a floorboard, bamboo floor, etc., when asked about what are the excellent properties of the floor, shoppers have said its environmental quality testing all belong to the "low formaldehyde" or even "zero - formaldehyde".

"Know" now more and more consumers for the safety of the home more and more value, many consumers when buying a floorboard, require companies to produce formaldehyde standard certificate, while others require that the formaldehyde release a quantity to the written contract, as a floor of rights on the basis of environmental problems.

Whether environmental formaldehyde content has standard.

Nowadays, businesses are using the slogan "low formaldehyde" and "zero formaldehyde" to attract consumers, but in fact, what labels should consumers look for when choosing wood floors?

According to the experts of the national indoor environmental pollution control centre, the country has a lot of hard index to "green environmental protection" wood floor, such as formaldehyde content. At the same time, there are specialized green product certification bodies, which can be referred to as "green" only through products certified by authoritative professional bodies.

It is understood that the current domestic detection method of formaldehyde release a quantity to have 3 kinds: perforation extraction, climate box and desiccator method, the method of the dryer is the most accurately reflect the floor environmental performance test methods. In July 2002, the new national standard for formaldehyde emission was officially implemented, which stipulates that the formaldehyde emission amount of the floor is less than or equal to 1.5mg/L, which is in accordance with the regulations and meets the indoor environmental health requirements. All the formaldehyde emission does not meet the requirements of the new national standard or the floor that is not tested by the new national standard, all can be regarded as non-environmental protection floor.

In addition, for the introduction of "zero formaldehyde" on the market, China timber circulation association vice President Gao Zhihua reminded consumers, do not believe the manufacturer of this statement. Some manufacturers now label their products as "E0", declaring that "products contain no formaldehyde". But zero formaldehyde is impossible, the floor contains a few, the key is whether its content exceeds the national standard.

Experts to identify green wood floors.

Attestation of Chinese environment mark is the national authority certification of environmental protection, "green" ten ring logo belongs to prove trademark, can prove certified manufacturer produces wooden floor is green when the consumer is buying these countries recognized logo do focus for verification.

"Be sure to read the test report to see if the formaldehyde content meets the national standards." Consumer Mr Wang reminds consumer, want to scrutinize the test report of the floor, in addition, to see it above the formaldehyde content that mark, still need to see detection type. He said that according to his own experience, the general inspection category is the national supervision inspection or the reliability of the inspection by the enterprise is higher than the inspection, the formaldehyde emission quantity of the qualified products is in the safe range.

Indoor air pollution purifying technologists teach consumers two simple ways to tell if formaldehyde is excessive:

1. will open a new section of sawing wood, smell, look carefully, if there is a pungent taste or feel dazzling, belong to formaldehyde to exceed bid of unqualified products, we can confirm the opposite is environmental protection product.

2. Consumers can immerse the top of a small piece of the sample in boiling water for 1-3 minutes to see if it has a pungent smell. Greenwood floor due to the low formaldehyde release a quantity, generally do not smell the pungent odour, if stimulus flavour is very strong, even make eyes feel uncomfortable, then prove that the free formaldehyde in the base material of the floor.

Remove the floor itself contain formaldehyde can cause pollution to the indoor environment, also remind consumer, choose the floor, cannot ignore installation problem. If the installation is not standard, it will also affect the environment. In addition, the adhesive in the floor if substandard, also can cause indoor formaldehyde pollution. Therefore, when choosing the wood floor with good environmental performance, the consumer should also pay attention to the environmental protection clean in the relevant process, so as to ensure the comfort and health of the home environment from each link.

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