time to build

ok my girl is out of town so i have to find something to do with my time so i decided to build a rack. my question is can i use mdf wood because i have looked everywhere for melamine and i can only get it in 1 foot by 8 foot peices. what do yall sugest.

ugh...MDF is a sagging NIGHTMARE!

Plus it weighs a billion pounds.

If anything I would use Plywood over MDF

I would suggest not useing it, go to home depot you can get it for cheap

Ive been using one of my mdfs for a little over a year and it have seen no sagging,heck ive even got a small tv on top of it!

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/c...f/IMGP8099.jpg

just remember the bigger it is, the faster it will sag. The good thing though is that it is so cheap, it does not kill you to have to build another one a few years later down the road.

Go with the xpvc plastic... its lighter and better all around... I am already planning for another rack

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Originally Posted by Drew87

I would suggest not useing it, go to home depot you can get it for cheap

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i can get what for cheap? if you are talking about melamine they only have it in small peices.

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Originally Posted by JasonG

Go with the xpvc plastic... its lighter and better all around... I am already planning for another rack

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Not easy to find for most of us. I have looked all over and the closest without huge shipping charges is in Kentucky and then i would have to drive for 8 hours each way because I dont have a dock.:(

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Originally Posted by dmaricle

i can get what for cheap? if you are talking about melamine they only have it in small peices.

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Yea i was sorry haha im at work trying not to get cought, Really the one i go to has big pieces and they will cut you out sizes you want for cheap!! Melamine i mean haha

I've found quite a bit of melamine pretty cheap at the local Lowes. First time I went, I had them cut 3 sheets of melamine ($20 a 4 x 8' sheet) to size for me, and every single one of those pieces had to be recut because none were the same size and many were crooked. Talk about a waste of time.

For the second rack I built, one to house juveniles, I bought some precut shelving melamine from Lowes. Look around they might have it kind of tucked somewhere, but it should be there. The second rack required no cutting at all, and went together quickly with just a screwdriver and some particle board screws.

im on the phone now trying to find melamine