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Best interior building material? - maud gonne - 09-25-2008
We want to put in a modest kitchen (some counters & cabinets). (Now it's a big empty space with a refrigerator and propane two-burner on a too-high shelf) To avoid rot, what do you recommend the counters & cabinets should be made out of?
RE: Best interior building material? - David M - 09-25-2008
We opted for solid plywood cabinets and concrete counters.
David
Ninole Resident
RE: Best interior building material? - Kapohocat - 09-26-2008
Dave! Can you send me a pic of your concrete counter tops? [
] I have a great book on all sorts of concrete Concrete at Home by Cheng.
Maud - pretty much go with anything "solid" and avoid anything with "laminate".
So if the product says "solid Laminate".... pass it by.
RE: Best interior building material? - Rob Tucker - 09-26-2008
Plywood is a laminated product unfortunately. Perhaps Cat is referring to melamine plastic laminates (formica) on particle board.
While my own home uses no wood structurally I am an old cabinetmaker and milled my own lumber for furniture and cabinet work. So in my termite proof building I now do have termites in the furniture and cabinets. I wish now I used our 3/4" cement panels for the cabinet bodies...
RE: Best interior building material? - Kapohocat - 09-26-2008
yup... that was it Rob!
RE: Best interior building material? - maud gonne - 09-27-2008
So... no to plywood because it's a laminate? But yes to plastic laminate on particle board? Sorry, I'm still unclear.
RE: Best interior building material? - Kapohocat - 09-27-2008
Yes to plywood. There are some especially nice ones like birch that isnt too expensive. No to laminate especially on OSB/particle board.
OSB is like having a big sponge as cabinents.