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RE: box store 'cabinet' plywood? - Philip1231 - 05-02-2025
(05-01-2025, 11:18 AM)DogwoodTales Wrote: Have you ever used the box store hardwood cabinet plywoods for kitchen cabinet boxes? How did that turn out?
I remodeled my kitchen in my previous house back in 2018 using better grade hardwood cabinet plywood from places like Hyde Park Lumber and Paxton Lumber (both around Cincinnati, OH).
Back then the cost per sheet (49x97) was a god $80 or so. Now that same stuff runs from about $115-200 per sheet depending on what you want.
Now in my current house of three years I'm getting ready build a new kitchen again.
My income hasn't gone up 25-100% in the past 7 years, so those box store prices look appealing, but I think I'm just gunna bite it and pay the extra for what I know has (better have) the best quality.
Your thoughts?
IIRC, I used 3/4" birch plywood from Home Depot when I built my kitchen cabinets 25 years ago. You will want an assistant to help you sort through the stack: I was very selective and ended up with very serviceable cabinets.
RE: box store 'cabinet' plywood? - AHill - 05-02-2025
Shop cabinets, yes. Kitchen cabinets, a big no. I spend the extra bucks for legitimate Baltic birch from a reputable lumber supplier.
RE: box store 'cabinet' plywood? - ajkoontz - 05-05-2025
(05-02-2025, 12:59 PM)DogwoodTales Wrote: I was going to check out the Menards near me. I think you are referring to this plywood. Is that it?
Looks like this plywood is the same thing, but without the UV finish and $14 less. So $14 for my time applying a finish - I'd say that's worth the little extra.
So you didn't have any issues with voids and flatness and such with this birch ply?
I don't want issues when it comes time to installing drawers and pull out shelving.
thanks!
That top link is the stuff I used, yes. Any issues? Nothing I couldn't work around. What it lacks in being perfect plywood, it makes up for in having a very tough finish, and the price. To be clear, you're getting a lot of people steering you towards proper cabinet grade plywood from a non-big box store, and I don't really disagree that it will be of much higher quality. But if you're painting your cabinets like I did, you can make a perfectly serviceable cabinet box out of the Chinese Tiger Ply from Menards.
RE: box store 'cabinet' plywood? - DogwoodTales - 05-06-2025
Yeah I’ll just use the cabinet grade plywood. I’m finding some lower cost options at Paxton and Hyde Park for the boxes with no visible sides. They don’t have to have a hardwood veneer except for sides that will show. Even then in my last kitchen I dressed up the end of a peninsula with a frame and panel of hickory anyway and the only other sides that showed were the top cabinets above the sink. This kitchen now will have a few more exposed sides including the peninsula which again I’ll do a f&p on that.
I’ll still check out that birch at Menards to use either on the lowers or other uses. Paxton has 3/4 birch for a little more $ but without the Uv finish.