Thread: Fixing Delaminating Plywood

I think I'd still be taking it back.

Pump it full of PVA and clamp it.

Originally Posted by loanrangie

Pump it full of PVA and clamp it.

Hello Loan Rangie,

Yep... I did do a variation of that... I had to use weights because the location of the bulge excluded the use of clamps. I did use PVA glue as well. Although it might be time to step up to that more flash yellow glue stuff.

In relation to Ron's response - by the time I noticed the delamination those parts of the sheet of ply had been turned into cabinet sides with all the shelves secured. I figured that was somewhere around the point of not being able to return the goods.

The exercise of making the battery recharging cabinet was to refresh my cabinet building skills before I launch into making the kitchen cabinets. I learnt that one does not buy ply sheets of ply made in Brazil which is sold at the big green hardware store. I did buy for sheets and only one was dodgy - just one too many though. The stuff was not cheap! It is funny how some lyrics from an old song that I probably only heard once in my life can stick in the brain ... the lyrics go ... "they sell an awful lot of coffee in Brazil" ... that is what popped into my mind soon as I read where the ply was made... :0)

Well a bit of a diversion via the Internet and I must have misheard the lyrics ... Accessed 28th July 2023 from The Coffee Song - Wikipedia ... "The Coffee Song" (occasionally subtitled "They've Got an Awful Lot of Coffee in Brazil") is a novelty song written by Bob Hilliard and Dick Miles, first recorded by Frank Sinatra in 1946. Later that year it was recorded by The Smart Set, and by others in later years. Well not the Frank Sinatra version .... much better ... Osibisa The Coffee Song 1976 - YouTube Osibisa The Coffee Song (1976)


At least now all my machines from the Triton Workstation 2000 to my little Ryobi router are all set up ready to take on the next carpentry challenge. Plus, my ability to square sheets of ply off accurately has been sorted out too. It is a shame that when they built my old Queenslander house they did not have a square, spirit level or a plumb-line.

Kind regards
Lionel

Originally Posted by Lionelgee

Hello Loan Rangie,

Yep... I did do a variation of that... I had to use weights because the location of the bulge excluded the use of clamps. I did use PVA glue as well. Although it might be time to step up to that more flash yellow glue stuff.

In relation to Ron's response - by the time I noticed the delamination those parts of the sheet of ply had been turned into cabinet sides with all the shelves secured. I figured that was somewhere around the point of not being able to return the goods.

The exercise of making the battery recharging cabinet was to refresh my cabinet building skills before I launch into making the kitchen cabinets. I learnt that one does not buy ply sheets of ply made in Brazil which is sold at the big green hardware store. I did buy for sheets and only one was dodgy - just one too many though. The stuff was not cheap! It is funny how some lyrics from an old song that I probably only heard once in my life can stick in the brain ... the lyrics go ... "they sell an awful lot of coffee in Brazil" ... that is what popped into my mind soon as I read where the ply was made... :0)

Well a bit of a diversion via the Internet and I must have misheard the lyrics ... Accessed 28th July 2023 from The Coffee Song - Wikipedia ... "The Coffee Song" (occasionally subtitled "They've Got an Awful Lot of Coffee in Brazil") is a novelty song written by Bob Hilliard and Dick Miles, first recorded by Frank Sinatra in 1946. Later that year it was recorded by The Smart Set, and by others in later years. Well not the Frank Sinatra version .... much better ... Osibisa The Coffee Song 1976 - YouTube Osibisa The Coffee Song (1976)


At least now all my machines from the Triton Workstation 2000 to my little Ryobi router are all set up ready to take on the next carpentry challenge. Plus, my ability to square sheets of ply off accurately has been sorted out too. It is a shame that when they built my old Queenslander house they did not have a square, spirit level or a plumb-line.

Kind regards
Lionel

Is your middle name Jerry?

Originally Posted by Lionelgee

It is a shame that when they built my old Queenslander house they did not have a square, spirit level or a plumb-line.

Kind regards
Lionel

Aahh, but they did. It's just that X X X X has never been a reliable unit of measurement.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Is your middle name Jerry?

Hello Ian,

Nope - my middle name is Glenn...

I reckon the original builders of my home knew all about Jerry building. According to one of the 80 year-old grandsons of one of the previous owners, the house was originally built on site about 40 kilometres away. Then sometime when the 1900s were still pretty new the house was transported to the current site for the family whose grandparents previously lived here. Maybe the move from the original site to here ... and the lowering from a high-set house to a low-set - by the grandparents threw everything out of square, and plumb, and level. Have I built in enough allowances for everything now needing to be made 'bespoke' to fit the uniqueness of my house.

Kind regards
Lionel

Lionel, my reference was to JerryD, of this forum. He's fastidious about straight, level and square.

He was doing some work at a friend's house, with another of the owner's friends in attendance. Jerry was frustrated by the straight, level and square thing, or more accurately, lack of, and exclaimed "Who the built this house?"
The third paty admitted it was him, asking why Jerry enquired.
Jerry's retort referred to the builder's ownership and ability to use a tape measure, square and spirit level.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Lionel, my reference was to JerryD, of this forum. He's fastidious about straight, level and square.

He was doing some work at a friend's house, with another of the owner's friends in attendance. Jerry was frustrated by the straight, level and square thing, or more accurately, lack of, and exclaimed "Who the built this house?"
The third paty admitted it was him, asking why Jerry enquired.
Jerry's retort referred to the builder's ownership and ability to use a tape measure, square and spirit level.

Hello Ian,

Well, with your explanation I would have to say I fully agree with JerryD's stance. Having things so far out of plumb, square, or level sends me round the twist. Now is that a pun or not - teehee!

Nothing like the good old Pythagora's 3 4 5 triangle or even just taking the briefest moment in time to get matching hypotenuse measurements.

There are two rooms in this house which are plumb square and level ... I rebuilt them. Oh the rooms also now have top and bottom plates and noggins in the wall frames.

To be fair, back when the house was first built they might not have been part of the building code. Or if there was a building code back then.

Kind regards
Lionel