Hardware accessories are relatively easy to be ignored in home decoration, but in fact, these seemingly insignificant accessories play a crucial role in our whole home design, including the use of furniture.
Hardware accessories cover a wide range, including door and window hardware, kitchen hardware, decoration hardware, bathroom hardware and so on. Today, we focus on bathroom hardware.
Definition of bathroom hardware
In short, all kinds of accessories installed in the bathroom, such as metal products for hanging and placing towels, shower shower, floor drain for draining, are called bathroom hardware.
Common bathroom hardware are: shower, floor drain, faucet, downer, angle valve, shelf, bathroom mirror, hose, tooth cup holder, towel holder and clothes hook.
Their materials include stainless steel, copper chromium plating and aluminum alloy. The main colors are metal, copper and silver.
Material comparison of bathroom hardware
This paper makes a simple comparison of three common materials: stainless steel, copper chrome plating and aluminum alloy
stainless steel
Advantages: the overall material hardness is high, with good corrosion resistance, not easy to rust
Disadvantages: single style, poor workmanship, low aesthetics
Chromium plating on copper
According to the practice of copper chromium plating rod is divided into hollow and solid two kinds, electric surface has bright and frosted points.
Chromium plating on hollow copper
Advantages: various styles, round bar and thick square bar, the price is more moderate, close to the people
Disadvantages: thin plating layer, easy to wear off, easy to deformation and bending, short service life
All copper solid chromium plating
Advantages: pay attention to the process, electroplated coating is relatively thick, strong and durable
Disadvantages: high cost, single style
aluminium alloy
Advantages: light metal texture, durability, wear resistance, corrosion resistance, good plasticity
Disadvantages: after a long time of use, the surface will be black
