Comment by gregschlom
Comment by gregschlom 2 days ago
It’s a great project overall but MDF is a very poor choice for the base. It will get destroyed as soon as it gets wet. At minimum they should have used exterior grade plywood, and painted it
Comment by gregschlom 2 days ago
It’s a great project overall but MDF is a very poor choice for the base. It will get destroyed as soon as it gets wet. At minimum they should have used exterior grade plywood, and painted it
Advantech OSB will outlast conventional plywood by a mile in the rain. I exposed it, flat (the worst way possible) as subfloor, to rains for 1+ year while building my house with only maybe 1mm of fiber degrading on the surface a few places. Many modern OSBs use hydrophobic glues impermeable to water.
If it were going to be exposed to the elements, I would pick a pine and waterseal it or a marine ply and waterseal it.
It would fail eventually anyway, but either of those two options, depending on price, would be good and cheap enough to last.
I‘m pretty sure it‘s from a region in the wotld were weather is very presictable, typically good, and people go out woth kids only in nice days, because there are so many.