Forex at home

Forex instead of paintings

The walls of modern houses and workplaces, are often covered with decorative panels of big dimensions, which represent geometric patterns, floral, photos, etc.. which have now taken the place that paintings covered once.

The reasons for this trend can be attributed in large part to the limited availability of economic resources, which has now limited anyone in shopping things that are not strictly necessary and in part to the need to realize with little cost and in a short time the surface of great visual effect representing particular moments in the life of each of us, or events of special importance from an artistic point of view, to free personal compositions.

Generally, the themes mentioned here are simply imprinted with proper techniques on a very thin support and made without any frame. One of the most popular materials used for such representations, is Forex, which is a plastic material used for direct printing.

Of course, with the possibility of being able to transfer all kinds of images now on this support, it is easy to find in every room in houses or workplaces, such decorative elements.

Forex, safe material

The reason why I am going to write this article, arises from the need to reassure all those who have doubts about the toxicity of the material, to the point that they avoid exposing it in the children's rooms, or in places such as kitchens.

To clarify the situation once we start saying that the material at issue is nothing more than PVC with different densities depending on the uses, we find it in use, particularly in the field of visual communication, where it is used to create panels, patterns, sets, serigraphs, etc. ..

Its use is also common in the construction industry where we find it on walls, furniture, facade cladding, anti condensation pipelines, suction and ventilation hoods.

For nearly 30 years, Forex thanks to its workability, to the wide range of colors available to the wide range of possible thicknesses from 1 to 19 mm, allows anyone to achieve what they want.

It can be handmade in very simple ways, such as piercing, cutting, sawing, it can be easily deformed cold and hot, it can be drilled, engraved, etc.

After clarifying what we mean, for completeness of information we must say that the original Forex panels meet the requirements of the RoHS and WEEE directives of the European Community and that are completely free from harmful materials such as lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, formaldehyde , asbestos, plasticizer, silicone.

I wanted to mention the most feared harmful materials in their entirety, just to dispel any doubt about the toxicity of Forex.

Forex for different uses

After describing the characteristics of the material, having described the types of processing possible, and having dispelled by now (I hope) the doubts about the toxicity of the material, I want to propose simple solutions related to interventions of recovery, repair and enhancement of some components of the built environment .

An old door, can be easily recovered and made much more interesting, if to the damaged part surrounded by the frame edge is applied a panel of forex with a decoration suitable to the environment to be enhanced.

The operation to be done in this case is very simple and we can say that it is a normal decorating diy routine practice.

It is enough taking the measures of the panel to cover, create decorative panels in Forex, sand the part where you want to paste the panel and then paste the motif that you like.

If we consider that the whole operation is manageable, without the aid of any master, without having to disassemble the door to take it to the carpenter etc., in consideration of the costs to be incurred, we realize the convenience of the intervention.

Some old drawers now ruined inside, can be easily recovered and made much more hygienic, by lining them with Forex.

The steam that comes from the column of the oven, which over time tends to ruin the color on the wall behind, can continue to flow smoothly if on the wall behind the column oven has a small panel in forex maybe decorated in keeping according to the wall.

The lateral shoulders of the closed compartments with white fixtures in PVC, can be coated with forex in order to make the most complete picture of the casing and at the same time make the compartment protected from dirt and moisture.

With cut-outs of forex you can have fun with the family to create together with the children, nice puzzle together to spend the evenings in a more funny and creative way.

As you can see, in addition to being absolutely harmless, the Forex is a useful and safe material, which together with your creativity, allows you to make many useful things.

One other thing for the record that needs to be said about the durability of the material, we say that a normal maintenance without aggressive substances allows us to keep colors unchanged over time and with a normal use of the material.

And speaking of safety should be noted that PVC is a polymer flame retardant, which thanks to the presence in its composition of chlorine, highly flame retardant substance, manifests an excellent fire behavior, until it becomes able to slow down the propagation of the flame.