But online shopping has an unavoidable problem: you can't see the real thing. Whether something is good or not is always practical in your hand. Then, in the absence of physical objects, how can home improvement bathroom hardware be purchased online to avoid the pit of merchants?
Pay attention to the brand
Second, pay attention to the materials.
Third, pay attention to the price
The above three points are the first consideration when purchasing, and there is also a point of origin and manufacturers that cannot be ignored.
Open a treasure at random and enter "faucet" or "shower" to search. The products ranked in the first few pages have the following characteristics:
1. The origin of business can hardly run out of Wenzhou, Ningbo and other places. What do you think of the place of origin? At the top of the page, there is a store name/brand name on the left side, and there are small gray characters next to it, showing the "description, service and logistics" scores of the merchants. Click the inverted triangle to display the drop-down menu, and some merchants will fill in the location, as shown below. The locations of these two stores are Wenzhou, Zhejiang.
2. The top commodities are cheap, and with various designs, it is easy to impress consumers. However, prices below common sense often make some unknown "adjustments" in materials, processes and accessories. Who knows? ...
As far as domestic bathroom hardware is concerned, the manufacturing places are mainly concentrated in several major regions: Jiangmen, Guangdong, Chaozhou, Nan 'an, Fujian, Jiaxing, Zhejiang and Wenzhou.
As the same origin, there are still great differences in production practice. For example, in Wei Shuwu, a powerful country can naturally occupy more resources. Among several producing areas, Kaiping, Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province is the strongest and the highest-end, among which Huayi, Shane, wide and Delica are the representative manufacturers.
In terms of popularity, Huayi and Shane are far inferior to brands such as Jiu Mu and Wrigley in China, but they have never heard of them, which does not affect others' Excellence. These two brands are mainly exported, and their focus is not on the domestic market. Only some cities have specialty stores, which are generally well known, but the product quality is good. Why? Many domestic brands have been engaged in the domestic market, and there are no strict standards for quality control. Huayi and Shane have been exported to Europe and America from the beginning, and the manufacturing inspection standards of all aspects of products are stricter, such as household faucets. American LF standard requires low lead copper with lead content less than 0.25% as the base material, while the national standard requires that the lead content of ordinary H59 brass is less than or equal to 0.5%.
Other excellent export sanitary ware brands in China include Luda, Seagull, Fenghua and Song Lin, among which Luda and Seagull can be said to be Foxconn in the sanitary ware industry, which only do OEM and export, not domestic sales; The advantages of Fenghua and Shane lie in the shower, Huayi in the faucet and Song Lin in the shower head. These brands are the top brands in the export industry, with excellent quality, novel style and high cost performance.
Secondly, you can get Guangdong Chaozhou Ruhengjie, Fujian Jiumu, Zhongyu, Shenluda, Zhejiang Aden, Jiangsu RuHecheng Sanitary Ware. This is a brand in Taiwan Province province, and its brand awareness is average, but when it comes to the faucets used in toilets in KFC and McDonald's, you must have an impression. At present, HCG cooperates with Xiamen Luda in hardware and copper products. Ah, there are too many brands, so I won't list them one by one (it's exhausting).
Having said that, of course, the sellers of high-end bathroom hardware are mostly in Guangdong.
To see whether a manufacturer is strong or not, there is a more direct and convenient operation: open the brand official website and see the number of certificates and the gold content of certificates in the high-end market. Generally speaking, UPC and CUPC in North America, NSF and ab 1953 in France, ACS and WRAS in France, Water Mark and WESL in Britain and Australia, and TUV in Germany are the mainstream certifications in the international high-end market. They put forward clear test requirements for the durability, environmental sanitation and water saving of plumbing equipment components. As for the CE certification in Europe, it can only be regarded as a stepping stone.
With the above certificates, it can be proved that the factory has the ability to produce these standard products. A year later, the cost of inspection and accreditation alone will be several million, and there are not many domestic manufacturers who can really meet these standards.
Finally, don't forget to check the manufacturer and origin of bathroom hardware online.