What you need to know when buying sanitary earthenware. When buying sanitary earthenware, communicating with managers of wholesale companies or manufacturing companies, many people encounter terms that, to put it mildly, are misleading.

We present to your attention a number of technical terms that will be necessary in your work.

Product surface terms:

1. Visible surface – the surface of the product visible from the front and side when the product is in the operating position.

2. Invisible surface – the surface of the product that is invisible from the front and side when the product is in the operating position.

3. Functional surface – the surface of the part of the product exposed to runoff or waste water.

4. Mounting surface – the surface of the product intended for fastening and assembly.

Terms of defects of sanitary ceramic products:

1. Bald spot - a place not covered with glaze.

2. Notch – a non-through open or closed crack.

3. Blockages – foreign bodies, covered or uncovered with glaze, protruding above the surface of the product.

4. Melts ( burnouts) – depressions on the surface of a product formed as a result of combustion or melting of a foreign body.

5. Chipping – mechanical damage, covered or not covered with glaze.

6. Glaze boiling – small concentrated bubbles on the surface of the glaze that cannot be crushed.

7. Shade of the main color – the difference in paint on the surface of the product and the greater or lesser saturation of the color.

8. Matteness – a decrease or absence of shine in a shiny glaze.

9. Drip – a local thickening of the glaze, which has the shape of a solidified stream.

10. Front sight – a dark-colored dot ( brown, black, green) up to 1 mm in size.

11. Prick – a depression in the form of a point on the surface of the glaze.

12. A spot is an area of ​​a different color, no more than 1 mm in size, that differs from the main color.

13. Waviness - a wave-like change in the thickness of the glaze.

14. Glazed area – a zone of thinned glaze layer, under which the shard is visible.

15. Pimple - a small, dense swelling of glaze or ceramic mass.

16. Bubble – a small, complete swelling of the glaze or ceramic mass.

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