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About buying and choosing fiberboard sheets
Fiberboard is a well-known building material that you can find almost everywhere today. Fiberboard panels are very popular because their range of uses is very wide — from laying parquet, linoleum, and other flooring materials to manufacturing furniture and other household items. Quite often fiberboard panels are used as insulating or soundproofing material. This wide use is also due to their affordable price. Fiberboard prices vary — they depend directly on the brand, grade, and quality of the fiberboard. It is worth noting that buying fiberboard in bulk is advantageous, since you can get a good discount that way.
Unfortunately, it is often the case that, due to carelessness when buying wood-based panels, customers can be deceived (instead of good-quality fiberboard they were sold warped, wet boards, or were shortchanged, etc.). To avoid this, before making a purchase you should carefully read the fiberboard price list at the place where you plan to buy the product. There you can find not only a detailed product range, but also the retail and wholesale prices for fiberboard. This in turn will help you avoid being cheated by the seller. Careful study of all quality standards, TU and GOST (technical specifications and state standards), which should be available from the consultant, will help you avoid buying poor-quality products. We recommend placing your fiberboard order not at a market stall but with specialized companies whose main business is selling fiberboard panels. There are now many such organizations selling fiberboard in Moscow, each offering a noticeably large selection of types and formats.
Moreover, to have at least some idea of the quality of fiberboard, we recommend learning a little about the manufacturing structure of the sheets. Fiberboard is produced by wet-pressing crushed wood chips or comminuted wood, to which synthetic resins, antiseptics, paraffin, and rosin are added. Finished fiberboard sheets are most often coated with a protective layer or laminated, which gives the panel a more aesthetic appearance. Such sheets are called finished or laminated. Fiberboard sheets are divided into two groups: soft fiberboard and hard fiberboard.
Particleboard panels are also very popular, even more so than fiberboard. Today it is not difficult to buy particleboard; the abundance of manufacturers and options allows you to choose the best one.
Modern particleboard panels are high-quality boards that require significant time and financial investment to manufacture. Preparing the wood raw material takes the most time in the production technology of particleboard sheets; it significantly determines the product's cost and quality. That is why particleboard prices can vary. The cost of particleboard in Moscow may be slightly higher than elsewhere. All that remains is for you to choose the right particleboard supplier and a worthy product.
If you think it through a little, buying fiberboard today is actually not difficult — you just need to be sensible and attentive.