What Do you Know About Door Handles?

Hardware accounts for about 3%-5% of home improvement costs. Although the proportion is small, it cannot be ignored.

For example, door handles not only play an important functional role in home life, but also their various shapes and styles can add highlights to home decoration. As the saying goes, "details determine success or failure", if a small handle is not purchased well, it will greatly reduce the practicality and aesthetics of home improvement. The following is an introduction to the classification knowledge of doors.

The handle is an appliance that is installed on doors, windows, drawers, cabinets and other furniture to push, pull, and pull, and is easy to switch by hand. Nowadays, many furniture that home decoration chooses to buy have their own handles and do not need to be configured by themselves, so they do not pay much attention to the purchase of the small part of the handle. However, some people still choose home-made or customized furniture. In addition, some furniture with their own handles may be damaged due to the handle or do not match the home style. At these times, you need to buy the handle yourself.

Door handles are classified by material

Handles can be divided into various types according to different standards. The most common is classification by material. The material of the handle is basically a single metal, alloy, plastic, ceramic, glass, crystal, resin, etc. Common handles include all copper handles, zinc alloy handles, aluminum alloy handles, stainless steel, plastic, and ceramic handles.

Door handles of different materials have different performance and quality due to the different characteristics of the materials. The table above shows the properties of various common handle materials.

Door handles by style

The handle can be divided into single-hole round type, single-stripe type, double-head type, hidden type and other product types according to the style. Different styles of handles have different decorative effects.

Door handles by style

Don't underestimate the decorativeness of the door handle. Although it is small, it is very conspicuous, and it is also a component that is easy to attract attention. Therefore, with the general pursuit of beauty in modern home decoration, the styles of handles are becoming more and more diverse. Handles are classified by style, mainly including modern minimalist style, Chinese antique style, and European pastoral style.

Door handles are classified by surface treatment

There are also many ways of surface treatment of door handles, and handles of different materials have different surface treatment methods. The surface treatment of stainless steel material includes mirror polishing, surface drawing, etc.; the surface treatment of zinc alloy material is generally galvanized (white plating, color zinc plating), bright chrome plating, pearl chrome plating, matt chrome, hemp black, black Paint, etc.

Door handles are classified according to common specifications

The common specifications of door handles are divided into single-hole and double-hole handles. The length of the hole distance of the double-hole handle is generally a multiple of 32. According to the hole distance (the hole distance refers to the distance between two screw holes of a handle, not the actual length, the unit is mm), it is divided into: 32 hole distance, 64 holes Common specifications such as spacing, 76-hole spacing, 96-hole spacing, 128-hole spacing, 160-hole spacing, 192-hole spacing, 224-hole spacing, 256-hole spacing, 288-hole spacing, and 320-hole spacing.

The above is the introduction of the relevant content of the door handle classification introduced by the editor, I hope it will be helpful to yo

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