Wood that can withstand the wind and sun-outdoor furniture materials

With people's pursuit of the quality of outdoor leisure life, outdoor wood products, outdoor furniture, forestry, and architectural sketches are becoming more and more abundant. Outdoor furniture is an important element that coordinates people and the city, and people and the natural environment in the outdoor public space. It can improve the quality of outdoor activities and provide people with a place to relax.

The outdoor environment changes frequently, which makes outdoor furniture exposed to the outside for a long time to face rain, sunlight, pests, and other attacks. Ordinary wood cannot resist this long-term natural erosion. To improve the quality and durability of outdoor furniture, it is more suitable for the outdoor environment. This has prompted experts to carry out a large number of new outdoor wood research, mainly including composite wood-plastic wood, anti-corrosion wood treated with chemical agents, and carbonized wood treated with high temperatures. These new outdoor furniture woods can effectively extend its service life and make it more suitable for outdoor space environments.

Outdoor furniture wood requirements

To allow outdoor furniture to better adapt to the outdoor environment and allow people to relax and relax in the outdoor environment, usually outdoor furniture wood has the following requirements:

1. Long service life and high durability

Compared with indoor furniture, outdoor furniture has the outstanding feature of good durability in outdoor environments, resists the erosion of rain and sunlight, and prevents furniture from cracking and deforming under long-term erosion in harsh outdoor environments. This is a very critical requirement for outdoor furniture, and only when its durability is guaranteed can it have good quality.

2. Stable reinforcement method

Because outdoor furniture is generally placed in public spaces for people to entertain and relax, it is not furniture that often needs to be moved. Therefore, the fixed structure of the furniture requires special consideration. It is necessary to prevent the furniture from tilting or collapsing and to ensure that the connectors are exposed to sunlight and will not be easily destroyed after rain.

3. Regular maintenance and repair

Outdoor furniture also needs to be maintained and repaired regularly. In addition to cleaning up the dust, it is necessary to avoid sun exposure in summer and to avoid rain erosion during the rainy season. If you don't use it for a long time, you need to cover the furniture with a protective cover.

Outdoor furniture wood

Outdoor furniture made of solid wood is usually made of wood that is not easy to crack, deform, discolor, and moth-eaten in the outdoor environment. Such as teak, Fraxinus mandshurica, etc., these woods are tough, rough in structure, and easy to process.

But solid wood resources are limited after all. To allow outdoor furniture wood to have good performance and to alleviate the contradiction between the supply and demand of wood resources, researchers have developed outdoor wood products.

1. Anticorrosive wood

Anticorrosive wood is the addition of chemical preservatives to ordinary wood to achieve the effects of anticorrosion, moisture-proof, fungus-proof, waterproof, and insect-proof. There are generally two treatment methods for anticorrosive wood, namely high-pressure immersion tank treatment and non-pressure immersion tank treatment. Among them, the high-pressure impregnation method is more commonly used. This method is to add preservatives to the wood after drying, curing, and polishing, and react under vacuum conditions to allow the preservatives to enter the wood cells and be permanently fixed to achieve the anti-corrosion and insect-proof effect.

The preservatives are mainly based on CCA whose chemical composition is chromated copper arsenate. The chemical properties of CCA are very stable. However, because the trace amount of arsenic in it may cause harm to the human body, many developed countries have banned the use of this preservative. Another kind of preservative is ACQ whose chemical composition is mainly alkyl copper ammonium compound. Its active substance is ammonium, which can be degraded, and relatively speaking, it has little pollution to the environment.

2. Carbonized wood

Carbonized wood is wood obtained after heat treatment at 160℃~250℃ in inert gas, water vapor, or oil. This kind of high-temperature treated wood can form a stable intertwined structure, which greatly improves the stability, and the volatilization of the extract reduces the food of decaying fungi and improves the anti-corrosion and anti-bacterial performance. Compared with the chemically modified anticorrosive wood mentioned above, this modification method does not use chemicals and is a more environmentally friendly modification method.

3. Wood-plastic composite materials

Wood-plastic composite material is made of wood fiber or plant fiber as the main material, mixed with polyethylene, polypropylene, polyvinyl chloride, and other polymer compounds, adding coupling agents and additives, and compounding through a series of processes. This material has high hardness, and high strength, is biodegradable, waterproof, and moisture-proof, and can effectively prevent mildew and insects. It is a good material for outdoor furniture.

My country’s outdoor furniture wood has been widely used and can meet the basic requirements of waterproof, sunscreen, and insect-proof, but it needs to be strengthened in terms of environmental protection. Based on saving wood resources, chemical modification should reduce the use of chemicals that will pollute the environment. , A truly green outdoor furniture material.