Chipboards and Environment Links

[Langbein]

Unlike new plastic that smells of death, we have now received Stained Chipboards that smell good. But how is it with chipboards nowadays, are they always completely harmless after the formaldehyde issues, etc.?

Is there no link where one can look up these products and check the damage situation?

 

[sville]

www.google.se is your friend.

 

[Langbein]

www.google.se is your friend.

Always first but not enough in this case.

 

[Immobil]

Is there no link where you can look up these products, etc., and check the damage situation?

: Shouldn't you have checked this before bringing them home? ???
:-/ Perfumed particle boards can make any allergy sufferer go ballistic. :-X ;D

 

[Langbein]

: Shouldn't you have checked this before taking them home? ???
:-/ Perfumed particle boards can make any allergic person freak out. :-X ;D

I don't think Ikea can afford perfume, they smell like wood

 

[Mattias L.]

When I read your posts Annaman here on the forum, I wonder how cautious/careful one can be about various things. If it's not pressure-treated wood or transformers, then it's particle boards.
Do you dare to drive a car? The risk of being injured in traffic is certainly a thousand times greater than you or your family being harmed by anything you bring up on the forum. Humans have never been older than we are today, and we are all going to die, so why do you worry so much about everything you seem to have bought and then try to figure out afterwards how dangerous it is? I can say that if I had the paranoia you have, I would have checked everything thoroughly before each purchase instead of realizing afterwards that it was a less than ideal purchase...
Please take this criticism the right way, thankfully the word is free.

Sweden has two particle board manufacturers, in Hultsfred and Östersund. Since the early 1990s, there have been strict requirements on how much formaldehyde can leak from particle boards in, for example, furniture. The limit is set at 0.12 milligrams of formaldehyde per cubic meter of air.

- The manufacturers have no problems whatsoever keeping the levels below the limit, and this also applies to levels in imported particle boards, says Ulf Rick to TT. I don't see formaldehyde in particle boards as a problem today.
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[Langbein]

I am of mature age, have a young wife and a small child whom I want to see grown up and perhaps have grandchildren. I have owned numerous cars and traveled to all Western EU countries and some in the East by car. Nowadays, I have two cars but prefer to walk. Over the years, I've become quite knowledgeable about the environment and health. With the family suddenly in a hurry for a new deck and closets etc., we looked for a more child-friendly house but are staying put. We always order natural materials, sometimes hastily checking and possibly correcting later.
Kemi.se is a good source indicating Swedish particle boards are the best, Ikea's are from Slovakia, and the natural material is from Poland.
The wife complains about the large transformer, and we drive a car once a week on average.

 

[Haagbard]

I am of mature age, have a young wife

 

[Mattias L.]

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I can only agree! ;D