Louis Brandt
07-28-2008, 7:10 PM
I just bought a 24 x 48 inch piece of 3/4 inch MDF at Home Depot. Our local Home Depots carry quarter size sheets of MDF. When I examined the piece in the store, it looked fine and didn’t seem to be warped in any way. I had a guy in the lumber department cut it for me on their panel saw, so that I wound up with a “working” piece about 48 inches by 18 inches, with the remainder as waste.
When I got the big piece home, I found that it was warped, badly enough so that I couldn’t use for its intended purpose. I’ve brought home many pieces of 3/4 inch MDF in the past, and I still have most of them in my garage, and they don’t seem to be warped.
My question is this: Could the fact that the piece was cut cause it to warp? In other words, could the fact that as soon as it was cut, a new edge of the material was exposed to the heat, causing it to warp? I need to add that I live in Louisiana, and our current summer temps have been running about 99 or 100.
Thanks,
Louis
When I got the big piece home, I found that it was warped, badly enough so that I couldn’t use for its intended purpose. I’ve brought home many pieces of 3/4 inch MDF in the past, and I still have most of them in my garage, and they don’t seem to be warped.
My question is this: Could the fact that the piece was cut cause it to warp? In other words, could the fact that as soon as it was cut, a new edge of the material was exposed to the heat, causing it to warp? I need to add that I live in Louisiana, and our current summer temps have been running about 99 or 100.
Thanks,
Louis