There are various kind of bathroom partition materials in the market. How should we choose the most appropriate one among them? These are the common materials of toilet cubicle. Let’s know more about them.
The four common materials of bathroom partition
Stainless Steel Honeycomb Panel
This is a kind of lightweight sandwich panel composed of aluminum or stainless steel as face material and aluminum honeycomb as the core to make into the metal stainless steel toilet partitions.
Advantages:
Extremely low maintenance, and contain Antibac,an innovative new bacteria-repelling compound
A wide range of colors and flexible design for your choice
Could be customized according to your request
Easy to install, clean and maintain and take apart
High mechanical properties and excellent fire performances.
Over 20 year warranty, Extremely durable
Anti-corrosive, not mildew, no peculiar smell
Solid Plastic Panel
Solid plastic partitions are very durable and resistant. They are made of one inch thick solid plastic panels, that will cost almost 75% more than powder coated steel partition and about 65% more than plastic laminate partition.
Advantages:
Moisture resistant
Heavy duty hardware
Integral door hinge
ADA compliant hardware, layouts
Higher initial cost, low maintenance costs
PVC panel is consist of the facing HPL with the inner core PVC which makes it widely popularly used for toilet cubicles.It is the ideal replacements of the timber, alutimber and composite board.
Advantages:
Recycling and in light weigh
Not easy transform
Moisture proof, Preservative and Fireproof
Scratch-resistant
Colour-steady
Easy to clean
Environment friendly
HPL compact laminate panel are decorative panels manufactured by simultaneous pressing of layers of cellulose fiber material impregnated with thermosetting resins and specially pre-treated craft paper subjected to both pressure and heat. Polycondensation of resins takes place and results in monolythic homogeneous material with no risk of delamination in the process of use. The decorative surface of compact laminate is additionally protected by a special coating layer ensuring panels' exquisite resistance to fading.
Advantages:
Waterproof
Fireproof
Moisture proof
Impact resistance
Long-lasting color
How should we choose them?
1.Before choosing the perfect bathroom partition material, there are some national standards bodies to assess those products for reference.
CE Intertek SGS ISO90001 ISO14001
From that, you can know more about the detection of products qulity by authoritative and professional organizations.
2.Other key factors you need to consider when choosing a bathroom partition material.
The weather of where you live is another important factor you need to consider. For instance, if you live in tropics areas, the scratch-resistant and heat and fire resistant material is necessary. Also color fading is not allowed in that situation. PVC, stainless steel and HPL compact laminate panel are available. But the solid plastic panel is not suitable for that. While in wet and damp environment, you need that kind of toilet cubicle materials that are waterproof and easy-to-clean, such as PVC panel, solid phenolic board and HPL board.
In addition, it's better to consider these five factors: waterproof, durability, fireproof, easy to clean, fireproof and durability. Because when you take a shower, a lot of water would drop splash on the board. Actually the bathroom partition is in the humid environment at the most time. So if the bathroom partition is not waterproof, it is really easy to be destroyed.
Besides, a lot of people take a shower with warm water, so it must be heat and fire resistant. When it comes to “easy to clean”, it is also important for the reason that even if the bathroom partitions have used for many years,they also can keep clean and make people feel happy and relaxed instead of being disgust. Only when the bathroom partition is wear resistant and has long use life, it is relatively worthwhile.
From this table, we can compare with different bathroon patition materials. There is no doubt that it is hpl compact laminate board.HPL panel, also named compact laminate panel, solid phenolic board. It’s made by the decorative paper impregnated with melamine resin, plus multi-layered black or brown kraft paper impregnated with phenolic after layering and then repressed by the steel under high temperature,high pressure environment. But you can also choose the most suitable one according what you want.
These four options listed above are among the favorites types of wall partitions in the market. Hope that helps. However, there are many more options available but everything will depend on what you have also influence on the pricing for your partition.
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