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• Face frames, when used, must provide rigid construction.
• Corner or lineal bracing must be provided at points where necessary to ensure rigidity and proper joining of various
components.
• All wood parts must be dried to a moisture content of 10 percent or less at time of fabrication.
• All materials used in cabinets must be suitable for use in the kitchen and bath environment where they may be exposed to
grease, solvents, water, detergent, steam and other substances usually found in these rooms.
• All exposed plywood and composition board edges must be filled and sanded, edge banded or otherwise finished to ensure
compliance with the performance standards.
• All exterior exposed parts of cabinets must have nails and staples set and holes filled.
• All exposed construction joints must be fitted in a workman-like manner consistent with specifications.
• Exposed cabinet hardware must comply with Builders Hardware Manufacturing Association finishing standards.
• Wellborn cabinets also comply with the provision of Paragraph 611-1.1, “HUD Minimum Property Standards— Housing
4910.1” 9/8/96. Each HUD job requires different standards; therefore, each Wellborn product line may or may not meet a
specific job’s requirements.
TESTING PROCEDURES
• All shelves and bottoms are loaded at 15 pounds per square foot, and loading is maintained for seven days.
• Mounted wall cabinets are gradually loaded to 600 pounds.
• A load of 250 pounds is applied against the inside of cabinet-front stiles for cabinets with drawer rail, or 200 pounds is applied
for cabinets without drawer rail.
• A three pound steel ball is dropped six inches above the surface of shelves, bottoms and drawer bottoms.
• A 10-pound sandbag is used to strike the center of a closed cabinet door and repeated with the door opened to a 45-degree
angle.
• Drawers are loaded at 15 pounds per square foot and operated through 25,000 cycles.
• Doors are opened and closed through a full 90-degree swing for 25,000 cycles.
• A door weighted to 65 pounds is slowly operated for 10 cycles from 90 degrees open to 20 degrees open and returned to
90-degree position.
• A cabinet door is placed in a hotbox at 120 degrees Fahrenheit and 70 percent relative humidity for 24 hours.
• A cabinet door is placed in a hotbox at 120 degrees Fahrenheit for one hour, removed and allowed to return to room
temperature and humidity conditions and then placed in a coldbox for one hour at -5 degrees Fahrenheit. The cycle is repeated
five times.
• Exterior exposed surfaces of doors, front frames, drawer fronts and end panels are subjected to vinegar, and grape juices, tomato
catsup, coffee, olive oil and 100-proof alcohol for 24 hours and to mustard for one hour.
• A cabinet door edge is subjected to exposure to a standardized detergent formula for 24 hours
• All cabinet parts must pass each test and show no visible signs of damage, connections between cabinet-and-hinge and door-and-hinge
must show no sign of looseness and other specifications must be met.
KCMA ESP CERTIFICATION
Wellborn is proud to be certified by KCMA’s Environmental Stewardship Program. After many years of developing industry
performance standards, the Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Association has included environmental sustainability to its program.
Those companies actively participating in environmental stewardship have an opportunity to become certified through KCMA’s
Environmental Stewardship Program. Designed to encourage industry policies and practices that benefit both the environment
and the well being of society, the Environmental Stewardship Program provides companies with tangible ways to support
sustainability in Air Quality, Product Resource Management, Process Resource Management, Environmental Stewardship and
Community Relations.
REQUIRED ACCEPTANCE FORMS
Wellborn Cabinet, Inc. requires that consumers sign an acceptance form prior to purchasing any ColorInspire or painted Cherry,
Character Cherry, and Character Maple products.
ColorInspire
The appearance of color is affected by natural wood variation, graining, lighting, profiles, and edge shapes. Therefore, ColorInspire
samples approximate the actual paint color and will not be an exact match to the paint manufacturer’s paper color deck.