MDF

[Mikey P]

 

[hogjowl]

That’s the best video ever

 

[Mikey P]

That’s the best video ever

 

[Mikey P]

I'll tell you what though, crawling around on that lady's floor throughout the whole house made it damn obvious she never sweeps at freaking thing..

 

[hogjowl]

How can you tell it’s MDF ?

 

[Mikey P]

Female intuition

 

[Connor]

This is a great and much needed tip. I see damaged mdf in bathrooms all the time.

ProTip: denatured alcohol makes clean up a snap.
Take a small Tupperware sandwich box and place a sponge inside it. You may have to cut it to fit. Pour denatured alcohol in the box until the sponge is saturated, but not sloshing in the box. When you do your finger-wipe to smooth your bead, wipe your finger on the alcohol drenched sponge and keep moving. This will save a lot of towels from being ruined.

 

[hogjowl]

How do you tell it’s MDF?

 

[Nomad74]

How do you tell it’s MDF?

You know when it swells like a dead Hog in the hot sun.

 

[Mikey P]

How do you tell it’s MDF?

If the house cost under a million and was built within the last 8 years, its MDF.

 

[Connor]

Real wood usually has sharper ridges and lines. Mdf will have smoother bull nosed edges. Most new houses have that cheap mdf. MDF baseboards are often taller and thicker, too.

 

[hogjowl]

As far as I know, I’ve never ran into it

 

[Jim Pemberton]

Marty, in all due respect to your region, which is also the place of my ancestors, I can't imagine there is much there that isn't MDF, except in antebellum mansions.

Tile and grout cleaners swell it often, but for whatever reason don't often get in trouble for it. Perhaps people don't notice unless its severe.

There are certain things I've found when I visit peoples' homes socially:

1. Most carpets have resoiled quickly after cleaning.

2. Most upholstery has water marks around the piping and skirts after cleaning.

3. Most MDF baseboard is distorted after tile and grout cleaning.

I've learned not to point it out, as I hate to get people I like in trouble.

 

[Mikey P]

No way is Marty observant enough to notice MDF swelling.


Or the shadows from his wife's hat block out the veiw.

 

[FredC]

Doing WDR work it was a rarity to see real wood baseboards ...... most of those were the 3.5 inch in old ranches

 

[hogjowl]

For years, I did restoration and flooring work. All I ever see is Pine.

 

[FredC]

For years

'78 and '79?

 

[hogjowl]

'78 and '79?

88-96

 

[FredC]

88-96

I can see that.

Almost all new construction in the last 20 years seems to be mdf

 

[Connor]

3. Most MDF baseboard is distorted after tile and grout cleaning.

I've learned not to point it out, as I hate to get people I like in trouble.

Better to point it out before hand than to be accused of it after.

 

[Jim Pemberton]

Better to point it out before hand than to be accused of it after.

I was talking about people who I visit socially outside of my work as a cleaning product trainer/supplier. I see the work of my customers from time to time, and its more than disappointing.

I can't believe I actually have a social life, as unhappy as I am to actually talk to people when I don't have to, but some misguided people actually invite me into their homes.

They probably have a hidden camera on me and are using it for some sort of psychological study about antisocial hermits....

 

[dealtimeman]

Real wood usually has sharper ridges and lines. Mdf will have smoother bull nosed edges. Most new houses have that cheap mdf. MDF baseboards are often taller and thicker, too.

For the last ten years or better they make all style of trim in stain grade real wood, fingerjoint paint grade, and mdf and it is more difficult to Identify but if you look close there are differences.

 

[Mikey P]

I can't imagine there is much there that isn't MDF

including his skull.

 

[Mikey P]

For the last ten years or better they make all style of trim in stain grade real wood, fingerjoint paint grade, and mdf and it is more difficult to Identify but if you look close there are differences.

if only they painted the bottom edge.....

 

[Jim Pemberton]

One of my rental properties....

Yeah, its my fault. Years ago, but mine. I never looked for it until I stopped by there today.

 

[Mikey P]

Outside intrusion?

 

[Nomad74]

One of my rental properties....

Yeah, its my fault. Years ago, but mine. I never looked for it until I stopped by there today.

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Slum lord

 

[Jim Pemberton]

Screw loose behind the SX12.

Seriously, had to strip off layers of vct finish from prior owner when I bought it in 2003. I just didn’t pay attention. Will be replacing these and sealing after this oinker moves out.

Not easy to confess, but a cautionary tale for cleaners who ignore the issue.

 

[Mikey P]

Jim are you saying you caused that when you cleaned the tile yourself?

You do know HuckFead lurks here, right?

 

[FB7777]

When we remodeled our house on Cape cod in December we installed a Lifeproof vinyl plank and ran Composite PVC colonial mounding

Looks great and won't crack warp or swell


Matt and I try to speed dry all tile jobs... but I guarantee we marginally swell MDF


It's weird that Marty has seen it.... most double wides we clean don't even have base mounding