The service life of kitchen equipment is directly dependent on the manufacturer. German factories are targeted at 15 - 20 years, Finnish - at 10 - 15, Czech Republic - at 10. Russian producers, even when using imported components, guarantee only 8 - 10 years of operation. But the operation of kitchen furniture depends on what materials were used in its manufacture.

As a corps of material used to manufacture kitchens (in order of price) tree, multiplex, MDF and chipboard.

In the production of furniture is more than 40 species of wood. If the kitchen completely wooden, the array of passes costly special processing impregnation, including antiseptics, and covered with a special lacquer. Among the natural materials can be subsumed and multiplex - the so-called thin layers of wood of different breeds, prokleennye in different directions. This material is less than the whole tree is attacked by water and little deformed.

Most often used in the manufacture of modern kitchens DSP, MDF and other types of stoves. Laminated chipboard in the presentation does not require, its popularity due to the relative cheapness and acceptable quality. If funds allow, I choose MDF (MDF - Medium Density Fiberboard) as a more durable and environmentally clean material. In the production of MDF-plate perfectly capable of forming - they can be given any form. Of the mat covered with varnish or laminated MDF facades kitchens often performed with various decorative borders.

Recently, the front panel otdelyvat steel metal, For example, with anodized aluminum coating that increase durability. Implemented and attractive satin steel, but the metal requires particularly careful care. As facing materials for the manufacture of kitchen most often used veneer (natural and synthetic) and polymers (laminate and melamine). Of the modern high glass doors make cabinets and shelves.

As materials for work surfaces - tabletops - except apply listed natural materials, synthetic and artificial stones. All korian gets more and more popular - high-tech material created on the basis of acrylic resin, pigment and mineral filler, it is durable, resistant to chemical influences and not toxic. But, by the way, marble tabletops, with all their foreign luxury sensitive to acids and, as strangely enough, are fragile - they may even cracked from the boiling water spilled on them