Hafele vs Hettich

All views expressed here are personal and are written after I have personally used these products and bought them. I will try to make the blog as simple as possible. The products were purchased by me in India and used in Bangalore.

Hafele vs Hettich:

Well these both are leading companies in hardware fittings and are on premium side. I considered them while I wanted to buy them for my house interiors and had a detail study on them before I selected one of them. When I visited the dedicated stores of both these companies I found out that hafele outnumbered Hettich in the number of products it offered. Also hafele had more options in the Kitchen category with its brand (Blum) than hettich.

Blum being a part of Hettich offered premium solution for Kitchen accessories and is a very good option to consider if you are looking for a premium long sustaining products as it provides the quality justifying its price. We can experience when we install a basic soft close channel of Hettich Hafele and Blum. Blum is more premium and gives a good feel followed by Hafele and then Hettich.

I preferred Hafele + Blum over Hettich due to its higher number of solution it can offer to customer and the quality of product. For the wardrobes telescopic Channels I bought Hafele, and for my Kitchen I used Blum, as it gives more longer life and can sustain more weight as kitchen being a place where we open and shut the drawers a number of times in a day.

For the wardrobe I used the hafele channels and wheel kit which I feel is much better than many other brands available in India. Initially I felt I was paying a lot of amount compared to its near competitors (at some point the difference is 5times) but if you need to fit and forget Hafele is very good option. 

It’s a onetime investment rather than expense. The wheel are very smooth and doesn’t sound much, I also attached a soft close with it which protects the door from banging and also added a switch with a scale light, so whenever I opened the wardrobe the lights would switch on and off when I closed them. I would upload the pictures pretty soon.

Blum on the other hand I used in my kitchen fitting and must say though it being costly it is worth it. It adds the premium touch to your kitchen and you can feel it in your daily use. I went with the steel finish set they have, other two one being plastic and powder coated, but the SS gives a very good finish and looks very neat. I also used Blum auto hinges for small doors and they are very good in quality too.

One of the fitting I used of Hettich was the franke fittings, which hafele doesn’t produce. This is used for Sofa cum Bed fitting by which we can make a sofa convert to bed, I must say this was a very impressive product developed by hettich and was only available with it and few other Chinese brands. But the quality of Hettich was very high and premium.  

One important thing with hardware fittings is that though it may not add to the overall look of things, it may also go unnoticed amongst your guest but it would be preferable if you go for good brands. This is a prime base on which many of your products are running. You will have less trouble if they are of good quality as they will give good life in long run. A good brand of fitting if fitted right will avoid you to call the carpenter often. Also hafele had a very good customer response system, as many of the fitting are complicated and if not fitted right may not function as desired. They has a good support team who assists and guides the carpenter free of cost in case needed.

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