In winter, we are used to lie on the sofa and watch TV, enjoying the happy weekend time with our families. But the invisible harm is reaching out to you at this time. The sofa we lie on casually may become a hidden danger to our health at home. How is this happen? Let's read the following content to find the answer.
Generally speaking, sofas are composed of three parts: frame, filling, and fabric cover. They have become an indispensable part of every family. At present, most sofa frames on the market are made of artificial boards. When artificial boards are combined and shaped, adhesives must be used. As long as adhesives are used, the artificial boards will contain formaldehyde..
In addition, the fabric cover of the sofa also has formaldehyde hidden dangers. In order to make the fabric more comfortable and ornamental, the manufacturer will soak the fabric in formaldehyde, because formaldehyde has a high wrinkle removal and anti-deformation effect. Therefore, the fabric on the surface of the sofa will also contain formaldehyde. So, lying on the sofa is equivalent to lying on formaldehyde!
01 Sofa frame
If the sofa uses a frame made of artificial board, there will be a risk of formaldehyde pollution, which is easily overlooked and hidden deep, and people generally find it difficult to notice. However, the artificial board is deeply wrapped inside the sofa, and the large amount of free formaldehyde in the artificial board can volatilize for 3-15 years, which will be harmful to human health.
02 Sofa filling
The filling of a sofa can not only affect the life and comfort of the sofa, but also affect human health. In fact, the root of the problem is that during the production process of the sofa, the internal filling is easily contaminated by volatile substances such as formaldehyde. The filling of a sofa is generally down, artificial cotton, and sponge. Generally speaking, the filling in a sofa is a whole piece of sponge, but there are also cases where multiple sponges are glued together. Without formaldehyde, there is no glue. This can explain why the formaldehyde release of the internal filling of the sofa exceeds the standard.
03 Sofa material
The sofas on the market are mainly divided into fabric sofas and leather sofas.
The characteristics of fabric sofas are easy to disassemble and wash, easy to maintain, cheap, and beautiful, they are popular among people. However, few people know that fabric sofas are also the main source of indoor formaldehyde, so the fabric sofas we usually use contain formaldehyde. Fabric sofas are mostly made of artificial boards. As we all know, artificial boards, especially inferior artificial boards, are the main source of formaldehyde. In addition, the original fabric does not contain formaldehyde, but the printing on the fabric does.
The printing on the fabric contains complex dyeing, which natural substances cannot do. Therefore, manufacturers will use some chemical substances to complete it in order to meet people's demand for beautiful and fashionable fabric sofas, including formaldehyde.
Leather sofas give people a noble and gorgeous feeling, but they are also very harmful. Leather processing needs to go through tanning, dyeing, spraying and fixing agents, which will inevitably cause air pollutants such as formaldehyde. If the leather is of poor quality, some manufacturers will spray more slurry and fixing agents to improve the appearance, so the formaldehyde content will be higher, which will cause greater harm to the human body.
The sofa not only belongs to the individual, but also to the family. It carries the weight of the whole family, as well as memories and love. After going through the storms of life, home is our eternal harbor, and the sofa is a person's most gentle sustenance and expectation for home. Follow the steps below to remove formaldehyde, and try not to let formaldehyde and other air pollutants destroy the most gentle sustenance and expectation of the home.
04 Tips
How to scientifically remove formaldehyde contained in the sofa?
First of all, consumers should start from the source. When buying sofas, we recommend that you go to regular large home furnishing supermarkets or regular websites of well-known brands to buy products produced by well-known companies. Don't buy products that lack quality assurance just because they are cheap or good-looking. You should actively ask the merchant whether the sofa has quality marks such as environmental certification marks, and ask for the product manual. In the selection process, you must use your senses, look more, smell more, touch more, and compare more.
At the same time, after buying the sofa home, you can first wipe the surface of the sofa with a wet towel, because formaldehyde is soluble in water, so this can reduce the formaldehyde residue attached to the surface of the sofa.
Secondly, it is very important to open windows for ventilation. Opening windows for ventilation can discharge harmful substances such as formaldehyde released by the sofa in the room, and at the same time introduce fresh air to reduce the formaldehyde concentration in the indoor air. Since formaldehyde has a long volatilization time, the work of opening windows for ventilation must be carried out persistently.
Finally, the most effective trick is to find an environmentally friendly professional formaldehyde removal company for treatment, and provide reliable indoor air quality testing for different sofa materials.
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