10 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS WHEN BUYING PLYWOOD AND ANSWER

Before going toshopping malls or dealersto buy plywood, for convenience just sit at home and access the Internet and find out. However, buying plywood online often has a lot of questions from customers. Fomex would like to summarize the commonly asked questions of buyers for everyone to refer to before choosing to buy for themselves the right plywood type. Let's find out right below!

10 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS WHEN BUYING PLYWOOD AND ANSWER

1. When was plywood invented? Who invented it?

Plywood was introduced to the United States in and industrial production began shortly thereafter. In the first standard 4 ft x 8 ft (1.2 m x 2.4 m) plywood panels were introduced in the United States for use as general construction materials. ( Plywood, Wikipedia)

2. How is plywood made?

Construction begins with the felling of trees. When the logs are collected, they are peeled and cut into a very thin plank. This is an intensive process that results in a single continuous sheet or pre-measured sheets making the sorting process easier. After the sheets are dried, they are arranged and bonded using the appropriate binders. After bonding is completed, the plywood is stamped and graded according to a number of different factors, including grain and density.
 

3. What is plywood used for?

Plywood is an extremely versatile product, and it can be used in a variety of applications, based on a variety of factors such as reinforcement and decorative surfaces. Due to its strength and cost, it is often used in interior and exterior building applications, from things like formwork to interior cladding.

4. Is plywood recyclable?

The way plywood is recycled largely depends on the type used. Untreated, unpainted, and unpainted plywood is often converted to plywood. It can then be turned into compost or mulch. The wood can also be used for animal beds, ornamental and coarse soil reclamation. The solid plywood pieces can be reused by the end-user to create an unpleasant aesthetic in a wide variety of desired furniture.

5. What if the plywood gets wet?

Most plywood will resist the harmful effects of raw water, and stronger woods are better equipped to manage prolonged water damage andfilm-coated plywood is an example. . Like most woods, even if it is water-resistant, prolonged exposure to moisture will start to wear and damage the wood. Untreated pieces will also not hold for long, and warping and rotting will start much faster over time.

6. Can plywood be bent?

Although plywood can be bent, it should be specialized, as most other plywood will crumble and break if they are bent. The best plywood available for flexing should be grain close together so that the surface does not separate during bending. Near-vein hardwood surfaces are ideal, including plywood made from glue, eucalyptus ...

7. Can the plywood stain?

Plywood consignment was sued because it did not meet the customer's requirements (Source:DTLAW)
Plywood is a material that easily fouled with dirt because of its effective construction ability. Proper care will allow the wood to have the desired uniform color or in the process of plywood is not carefully examined, this also leads to this situation.

8. Can the plywood be sanded and polished?

Plywood can be sanded and polished. However, like any other wood, it is important to use the right equipment to ensure that the finish appears as desired. Individuals should start with 80-grit sandpaper to flatten the base surface before moving on to finer grinding for a smoother and more vivid polish on the wood.

9. How thick is the plywood?

The thickness of the plywood varies depending on what pieces are being used. If plywood is being used as a support, it needs to be thicker and stiffer than if it were being used as veneer. Conventional plywood thickness can vary from an eight-inch to as much as a quarter of an inch. Specialized plywood grades can come in more varieties when it comes to their thickness.

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Buying wood products is a big, somewhat complicated topic, because there are numerous types and grades of wood. I would recommend reading a little about the topic on woodworking sites. Here’s one article, although the plywood section is very late in the article. Complete Guide to Buying Lumber | The Art of Manliness. This one doesn’t cover other materials like MDF, OSB, Melamine, etc.

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Answers to your specific questions:

The big boxes (Lowes, Home Depot, Menards, and others in the U.S.) are usually the cheapest option. Their stuff is sometimes picked over, although this is more of a problem with board lumber than sheet goods. If you are looking for a really nice surface, you will want a higher grade (e.g. A rather than B) and possibly a hardwood on the surface layer. Baltic Birch is a common very smooth surface layer. The big boxes tend not to carry the higher quality plywoods because there’s not enough sales volume.

It varies widely by location, and quality of the material. Where I am, plywoods of reasonable thickness start around $20 and go up.

Depends on what properties you want. A B/C plywood (B grade surface on the outside, C on the inside) will give you a pretty good surface where it shows, but save you money on the less seen surfaces. Medium Density Fiberboard (MDF) has a very smooth surface, but will disintegrate if it gets wet, so it is limited to indoor uses. Oriented Strand Board (OSB) is generally too rough for furniture.

Disclaimer: I’m a hobbyist, not a cabinetmaker, so I’m sure there are people who can tell you a lot more.

It’s an interesting site, worth checking out. Birch as house sheathing, for example, and a news section that shows they think somewhat different than USAians. They may be of interest to some of our EU members but I suspect they only sell in wholesale quantities (Mrs Moose, sigh) and shipping would be prohibitive to this side of the pond.

It’s a spam attempt to boost their search engine ranking (I’ll quote and giggle it for fun, see it it’s being mass posted), and while likely not something a maslovan could buy I enjoyed poking around their site. It’s in Russia so the NSA may enjoy shadowing you . Overall I’d vote for keeping the post.

No other posts found with giggle so if they’re spamming enmass it hasn’t hit the search engines yet. I’ll see if I can PM and ask about a North American distributor.

Western Union Zhiyuan contains other products and information you need, so please check it out.

The arborist came out yesterday to examine the Bokeelia moosely manor property. Off with their heads (roots, too), thinks we should remove a good part of the foliage and do some planned re-landscaping. He especially didn’t like our queen palms, messy and disease prone.

Mrs Moose, who wanted the property because of the fruit and other trees, now agrees with him. The poor layout has cause disease problems and the attempt at a small citrus orchard was overshadowed and crowded. Fortunately everything grows at least 4x as fast as a “more temperate” climate, which means about 8x as fast as Mooselake North, plant and jump back so you don’t get hit by an upward hurtling tree. The stately live oak that I thought was at least 50 years old is more like 15-20 and is on the keep list. Pine Island is covered with fruit and palm tree orchards, no lack of replacements in a myriad of sizes. And we have a couple serious fruit planting hobbyists on our road to help with the replanning. Now if a day of heavy tree demolition didn’t involve truckloads of large equipment and cost more than a clapped out Bridgeport…

Even more OT, while Florida does have some native palms they’re mostly imports that some of the natives consider “invasive species”. We’re not purists but will keep that in mind. Now to find a fos landscape planning package, if one exists

You should familiarize yourself with how plywood is graded, lots of sites that detail this…

I would caution against big box store plywood, they aim for low prices not quality and because of this even their ‘grading’ isn’t alway up to the standards it should be… For many projects the big box store is plenty good, but I would never use it on high end stuff…

If you want premium quality plywood you are going to have to find a real lumberyard or woodworking supplier and yes pay a premium…

For furniture you are probably going to want to look into cabinet grade plywoods, there is no single one that fits every bill but Baltic Birch is going to be the most common…

That isn’t’ to say big box store plywood isn’t useful, I use it all the time but I will post these images up here to show what might pop up when you use it… Last year I was making bottom boards for beehives out of 3/4" BCX plywood from Menards and it was honestly some the worst BCX plywood I have ever seen, ‘good’ enough for what I was using it for but still horrible… The C grade for the interior and bottom layers allows for 1" voids and solid knots to 1 1/2", the pictures below show what I encountered in several sheets and this is only where I cut and saw it, who knows how many more voids in excess of 1" were present that were not supposed to be in C graded plys…

You can also see folding over of the inner veneer causing distortions in the same piece…

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