The Truth About PARTICLE BOARD...Is It The Worst Material?! (Pros + Cons...Particle Board) 

I am not sure it would be safe to burn them, binder might contain toxic chemicals when burned.

@@CemKalyoncu not in the EU at least

I have an ikea desk and table that have been with me through 6 different houses! They outlast any type of cabinet or desk I’ve ever bought from Lowe’s, HD, Staples etc

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Correlation vs causation; anyone who has all particle board furniture very likely has some other problems in life : )

Thats about all its good for lol

I just took an old entertainment center (all particle board), ripped all of it into usable pieces and topped my workbench with it. Glad to see I'm not the only one that uses that idea.

Funny part is, a lot f people think cause a piece of furniture is heavy that it’s made of quality materials. Sorry wrong! Particleboard or chipboard very heavy compared to most hardwoods. Other thing is, furniture store salesman con customers legally. Long as there’s even one tiny piece of hardwood on furniture the stores or salesman can legally say the furniture made of solid wood. I’ve had this conversation with so many people saying their furniture they bought is all solid wood. Now with almost all furniture there’s some area where you can see the edge of the materials and I’ve turned furniture around or flipped it over and low and behold there’s the raw edge of particleboard! Needless to say the people are not happy and shocked what they bought! Furniture stores or their sales y don’t like me very much cause when they tell me their furniture made of solid wood, I’m quick to show them it’s not! Now with all that being said, if the furniture is actually made of all solid wood, it needs to be in consistent temperature away from moisture. Changes in temperature and/or moist areas will make the solid wood warp, twist, shrink or swell. Any place where the wood glued together like a dinning table or a side of a cabinet where there’s joints that has two or more boards glued together. Those glued joints are prone to fail and split apart. For example I’ve had numerous people have wood stoves or large windows (Sun generates a lot of heat thru windows) not too far from their dinning room table and chairs that’s has their table and chairs split apart at the joints in numerous places. Some cases the joints can be Glued again and clamped together till the glue dries. But not always a easy project to do and get it where it looked like new again without some sanding and refinish work. So as nice it is to have a real solid wood piece of furniture, it does need special care to lasts a long time. Plywood with veneer is much more stable and can handle some temperature changes better then solid wood and can look just as nice in many cases. If your wanting furniture that can take a little more abuse plywood a better choice with the exception that if plywood veneer gets damaged you may not be able to repair the veneer damage. Especially if the veneer is a import product since the veneer is so thin on the plywood that it’s literally less then paper thin. Domestic veneer on plywood is usually over a 1/16” thick giving you some veneer to work with if it gets damaged. You can steam the veneer with a iron and a wet cloth that will raise the grain and make it so you have less sanding to do to make your veneer look like new again if necessary! Usually not that lucky with a import veneer plywood! Of course solid wood you can steam and sand a lot and never worry you’ll sand thru a veneer! They all have their advantages and disadvantages depending on damage?

I use particle board shelves in my garage and they have held up for a year with no problem…I put heavy totes on them and they hold just great

Your one of the first I’ve seen mention the pros and cons of particleboard or chipboard. One that you missed with the melamine is there’s also another brand called Coretron and I may of spelled it wrong? But how the word sounds anyway! Another issue you didn’t bring up though with these vinyls on particleboard is the fact that the vinyl will shrink with a little heat. If the material near a windows where the sun hits it the vinyl will shrink leaving raw particleboard showing on the face of the boards. Unfortunately there’s very little you can do to fix it once it shrinks either! It certainly doesn’t look pretty after it shrinks and you can see the particleboard on the outside of the cabinets! Plastic laminate be more expensive to cover materials with and it’s capable of shrinking as well. But usually more stable than the vinyl is! Personally I’m not a fan of particleboard nor any of the vinyl veneers on particleboard and I’ve had to replace both numerous times over the years that was only a year old after installing it. Set cheap cabinetry next to good quality cabinets and when both are brand new you can’t notice much difference in looks. But take those same cabinetry and look at them side by side even a year later and there will be a huge difference how well they hold up! Although hardware quality is every bit as important too! Cheap hardware won’t hold up long either!

@@ghostridergale fairly recently Stumpy Nubs posted a video showing the construction of an antique chest of drawers. Very interesting, carpenters have understood the way wood moves for a long time and taken that into account when building but lots of new stuff is just built to a price just to make a buck and ends up in the trash when you move somewhere else...

Same. My wife and I bought some Ashley furniture and found out the hard way.

😂😂😂😂😂 I'm in the first year of my wood custom build business, and one of the things I build is custom wooden bed frames outta real wood due to my personal experience with my frame falling apart because of this crap 😂😂😂😂 before I became a carpenter.

Right tool(material in this case) for the job - as always.

i have found that screws dont hold in it.

​@@roccoconte2960 well the mix of pre drilling and using dowels and glue makes it pretty freaking strong, especially when making kitchens where you have multiple elements fixed together and supporting each part from multiple ways

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That’s a thriving side business, James 😆

100% idk, about US but where i live in EU the kitchens stands for a long ass time especially if "installed" properly and ofcourse siliconed where necessary

What makes it better than some of the other woods for speakers?

@@JS-tb9hu Maybe omnidirectional resonation? Normal wood has direction of fibers so it will resonate diferently in diferent directions. I am guessing.

@@PeKlim I think it would be its sound insulation qualities maybe. Reflecting sound back out of the front.

@@PeKlim it is more dense and has less vibration, no hollow spots and of course the lower cost. There are probably others but that's the reasons given to me when I started making custom enclosures.

Question, if you're willing -- does it help absorb/insulate against bass frequencies, d'you think? I'm building a tiny house trailer & need all the bass insulation I can get, so I'll be lining the walls/joints of all types with loads of rubber ... But I'd cut weight from my materials elsewhere in order to add particle board to my walls, and take the time to waterproof the hell out of each panel of it first, if there's decent evidence that it would help reduce vibrations from bass and/or the road. If it does enough to reduce the amount of rubber that might be good for costs, and rubber ain't exactly lightweight either so it could work out, idk, just seeking thoughts on cheap materials and hadn't previously heard of particle board being useful in the context of sound. No pressure to take time answering unless it's convenient for you of course! Thanks in advance for any help, to OP or anyone else :D

Don't do it, unless you're ready for a learning experience.

Please elaborate.

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@@TheHonestCarpenter (Especially in light of the "THE IKEA EFFECT" video, musta been hard to say anything good at all about particle board.) ;)

@@propertystuff7221 Actually the bulk of Ikea fame is their "honeycomb structure paper filling" - light and very sturdy for its weight.

Nice bargain

Did the company chage to plywood or stay with making cheap products

@@tcbridges stayed cheap No longer in business in my town