3/4" MDF sheets

[tremor1127 10+ year member]

At the Home Depots around here they have quarter sheets of MDF (2'x4'). The 3/4" 1/4 sheet is like $9.50, and a full 49"x97" is $22 and some change.

ahhh, they may be 1/4 sheets here, too...

 

[brokeitagain 10+ year member]

i had them cut three sheets into 2'x 4' pieces so i could haul it in my blazer. i wound up with so much waste it would have been better to borrow a dealer tag from work for my truck

 

[plushDJ 10+ year member]

home depot doesn't cut mdf here. They say something about breating in the particles is bad for you. WTF do they know.

Fegs.

 

[brokeitagain 10+ year member]

lowes here has dust collection so u dont breathe it

 

[Betrayer00GT 10+ year member]

lowes here has dust collection so u dont breathe it

Same here. For both Lowes and HD, though.

I bought several full sheets early this year, and they were $25/ea at the time. I believe a full sheet has gone up to ~$30 since then, at least around here.

MDF dust is killer, though. The stuff is made with formaldehyde. Also, dust particles made when routing or sawing MDF get really, really small. As in, not even visible to the human eye when airborne. Both of those things are really toxic w/ long term exposure, of course. I wouldn't work with it if there was not adequate dust collection, but I work outside so I don't need much.

 

[brokeitagain 10+ year member]

ya it took a long time for me to cough all that shit out. i got a paint respirator from my body guy for the next time

 

[basshedz06 10+ year member]

doesn't bother me that much don't really care about the dust just ****s up my sinus's alot other than that nothing. hell *** and driving kills so this can't be that bad, if u gotta go with saw dust in your body wouldnt that be cool on your tombstone it will say " this guy built a lot of boxes" lol just kidding guys