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Home Depot has Duramine melamine in 3/4" sheets. I couldn't believe how
heavy it was. I think I'm going with a 5/8" birch veneer plywood with a two part epoxy paint over it. What do you think? Is Okoume better than a birch veneer? No one would ever use Melamine on a boat. It's heavy, has little structural integrity and the surface is thin and easily damaged. Having said that, someone will say they used it. Formica is good, what you're looking at is molded fiberglass, which is the best. |
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On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 22:03:16 -0500, "Jim and Becky"
wrote: Is Okoume better than a birch veneer? Okume is lighter and more rot resistant. |
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There is a Masonite type product that is much more
water resistant that the "temperd" Masonite and has one side coated with a solid white coating that looks like it is applied after and initial pressing and the whole thing looks like it is "baked together" in an oven. It's pretty darn light and the white coating is very hard to damage. It resists scrapes with tools, abrasion by mouldings being applied and the neat thing is the coating is baked into the product on "3 sides" so you can just glue the panels up on the wall or ceiling without any moulding, and just rely on any good grade of white sealant along the joint to make the surface water-resistant. But... for a few cents per foot you can get the plastic moulding that allows two sheets to fit together and aligns all the surfaces ( I use much less sealant here ) and there are not exposed sheet edges. I think the moulding is made so that it can align two sheets faces ( like an "H" moulding ) and you snap off one leg of this moulding and it dows corners as well. They may have changed all the tooling since its been years since I used it. I think Lowes (like Home Depot) used to carry it. But maybe you can ask your nearest retailer or wholesale lumber company about what they have available. I used it, as did many home bath improvement crews did, to make 3 wall shower compartments in lower priced houses. I never got a call-back. The product I'm describing is just shy of 1/8 " thick. The sheets were 4 x 8 or 3 x 8 . I think at that time they were 4-4.50 a sheet (10 years ago.) Best of Luck. Vince Caldeira in Austin Jim and Becky wrote: Home Depot has Duramine melamine in 3/4" sheets. I couldn't believe how heavy it was. I think I'm going with a 5/8" birch veneer plywood with a two part epoxy paint over it. What do you think? Is Okoume better than a birch veneer? No one would ever use Melamine on a boat. It's heavy, has little structural integrity and the surface is thin and easily damaged. Having said that, someone will say they used it. Formica is good, what you're looking at is molded fiberglass, which is the best. |
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