MATERIAUX

THE BASIS

Easy to find in the garbage of retailers, very economical, cardboard can be used to make furniture very creative child and adult, if you know how to implement. Indeed, they are structured in several layers that give them incredible resistance (65kg/cm).

You can find full board (cardboard pen), cardboard single, double or triple wall. For the manufacture of furniture, double groove is more used and must respect their way to increase strength or bending.

Just a rule, a good cutter and a glue gun. To finish, the only limit is your creativity, since they can be painted or laminated tissue paper.

The paper can also become a manufacturing material virtually free as it fills our mailboxes on and invades our homes. Banded laminated, it can serve as a shell model clay, plaster or polystyrene. But it can also be grinding with additives to obtain a pulp molding or mixing.

Very economic, whether the chipboard or OSB, are the particle board at all wholesalers in DIY, in whole or precut panels, 5 to 50 mm thick. They are used in the vast majority of furniture (even luxurious), covered with a veneer or a hard bottom to paint. They differ mainly by particle size and distribution in the panel.

MDF (medium densisty fiber) is about him a fiberboard forming very thin sheets pressed ensemble.Il is working very easily and the dimensional stability is recognized. There are entire panels or precut ches DIY wholesalers. There's LDF (Low Density Fiber) MDF (Medium Density Fiber), HDF (High Density Fiber)

The cost, ease of work and their stability over time are their main attractions. They are not recommended for outdoor use. But there are versions treated against moisture.

The plywood is made of sheets of wood stacked in several layers cross, to give good strength and excellent flexibility.

Fairly economical, it advantageously replaces the raw wood when you need a good rigidity, with a small thickness or a wetland ocasionnel.

Its quality varies according to the number of layers and the original gasoline.

There are also plywood pliable cold, the Flex-PLI, which allows for rounded shapes and curves easily. The latter can then be plated or not as easily.

Found in most softwoods and softwood, whether pine or fir, but also of wood such as poplar, they work relatively easily and remain economic.

By cons, they have the disadvantage of splitting easily. They are used for interior woodwork, forms or small outdoor structures.

They are mainly found in brackets or plates whose thickness varies from 10 to 100 mm.

The hardwoods are relatively more expensive but offers a unique pleasure, a very good resistance and are less fragile than softwoods. Whether oak, beech, ash, walnut or elm, each with different characteristics and their use depends on personal taste.

Hardwoods include both deciduous fruit that. Dimensions vary depending on the supplier and the lot so it is advisable to choose always the same in his wood lot for one cabinet, and to prefer wood that come only from managed forests

The synthetic glass (PMMA), wrongly called "Plexiglas", can advantageously replace the glass because it is cheaper and easier to work. It can be mixed with mineral glass as "Altuglass.

It is found in different colors and different levels of opacity. Up to a thickness of 6 mm can be put in shape with a heat gun, or as "Macrolon, the cold work.

For greater thicknesses, it is necessary to thermoform or steaming them for getting in shape. To make a chair adult requires a minimum thickness of 12mm

It's found in form of plates or bag of stuffing. Plate, polyurethane foam or polyester allows the cutting to have pillows or mattresses size and shape you want for a price.

Any time you have to take account of its rigidity depending on the use made of it. For a seated chair or sofa, it is preferable to take at least 20 to 30kg/cm ² whereas for the record, 15 to 25kg/cm ² is sufficient.