On 1/12/2015 8:59 AM, dadiOH wrote:
"DerbyDad03" wrote in message

On Monday, January 12, 2015 at 5:51:03 AM UTC-5, dadiOH wrote:
"DerbyDad03" wrote in message

I read a suggestion to use 1/8" Hardboard topped with 1/8" Acrylic
Coated
MDF for kitchen drawer bottoms.


http://www.homedepot.com/p/Unbranded...9106/202090193


The theory is that the Acrylic Coated MDF looks good, is easy to
clean
and wouldn't need to be covered with shelving paper, etc.

Has anyone done this?

Yes. I have used it here and there in my shop, also in the house as
tray bottoms (trays IN drawers).

If so, did you glue the panels together?

No, I just used the 1/8" tileboard. Why do you want a lamination of
it
and hardboard?


The lamination would be to achieve a 1/4" thickness for the actual drawer
bottom, not for a drawer tray.

Yeah, I understood that. The thing is, why? Although 1/4 is a pretty
standard drawer bottom thickness, there is no rule requiring it. Some
drawers need a bottom that thick, some need thicker but for most
normally sized drawers 1/8 would be sufficient. (Unless you are going to
store wrenches on them .

Easy to cut the grooves for it too if your table saw blade is 1/8 or 1/8
+ a RCH.


Food for thought here, these will be kitchen drawers, kitchen utensils
tend to be much like wrenches. ;~) I live in a relatively new
neighborhood, newest homes are 3 years old. One of the builders used
1/8" thick drawer bottoms and I have rebuild several of those drawers,
for neighbors, not mine, already. By comparison our builder used 1/4"
bottoms and we have had no issues yet. 1/4" plywood is much less
expensive than the time to rebuild a kitchen drawer bottom that may fail.