Home hardware lifetime warranty or gimmick?

When you see thick dust on the windowsill, your mood is gone. This is because the windows fell off the chain at a critical moment, which resulted in poor sealing and poor sound insulation. It was like wearing a hole in the jacket. The external maintenance system of the entire room could not be tightly integrated, resulting in failure of the perfect home. One stroke.

Although the hardware is small, it affects the service life of household products. It is like a human joint and is often ignored, but it plays a vital role in the body. A doorknob has been used by us for many years and it is unimaginable. Because of the expendable nature of hardware, many furniture brands do not dare to give a warranty period of too high, but in fact, because hardware has such a special nature, it requires more perfect quality, so consumers should ask: Hardware is not The lifetime warranty?

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Reason 1: Hardware Quality Relationship Product Lifetime

Although the hardware is small, it is to a certain extent related to the life of large home products. A wooden door, a bookcase, a set of cupboards ... The manufacturers of these products are experts in the selection and use of wood, they can tell at a glance which piece of wood is suitable for the door, but they may not be good at producing quality hardware.

Reason 2: Hardware is easy to wear out

Hardware as a connection point, its flexibility and longevity largely affect the overall product usage. If the hardware is broken early and the doors do not open and close smoothly... then even if the quality of the product is better, it will only be a defective product.

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One reason: most businesses do not promise hardware lifetime warranty

At present, some mainstream brands promise hardware warranty within three years. Within three years, hardware problems free warranty, overdue fees. There are also some brands, due to the use of high quality imported hardware, promised a lifetime warranty on the hardware, as long as the problem is free of maintenance. In this regard, the industry said that dare to promise a lifetime warranty is the confidence of their products, but also reflected from the side of the product quality. But the promise of a lifetime warranty is a test for companies, so brands often take a cautious approach.

Reason 2: "Lifetime Warranty" is just a selling point

For the hardware warranty, some brands offer a free warranty within three years and a lifetime maintenance commitment. The so-called "life-long maintenance" does not mean that it can be "free for life." For the lifetime warranty, some brands use this as a selling point to build a brand image, but in fact it does not really guarantee free lifetime warranty, or it will charge a certain fee.

Doors and windows as the external protective structure of the building, its energy-saving performance has a direct impact on building energy efficiency, and door and window hardware as an annex in the doors and windows, when supporting the doors and windows, its advantages and disadvantages directly affect the energy efficiency of doors and windows, high quality The door and window hardware plays an important role in building energy efficiency.