Basement Euro Cabinets (Frameless) Material Suggestions

[wnagle]

I plan on using MDO on some cabinets in my parking garage due to the moisture of rain and snow on the car.  I'm told they use it on the big green sign boards on the freeway.  Since the green signs never seem to fall down, I guess I'll have to buy some!

 

[Chris Hughes]

I've heard MDO called "sign board" before.  I've had to match some "high end" glazed cabinets recently.  For painting the stuff is great, no grain transference and paints smooth as glass.  MDO cost me about $45.00 a sheet but I could spend $65.00 at my hardwood supplier.  I haven't seen the differance so I go for the $45.00.

What hardware are you using Nickao?  I recently swithed to BlumMotion and I love them, good hardware makes a huge differance.

 

[nickao]

I love the blu motion and that is fairly expensive itself!

I would have to look up old invoices as my General usually provided the stuff and I would just look in amazement at the prices, I do not think he really shopped for sales to much. We also used blu motion type stuff for the cabinet doors , but it was not blu motion just something similar. I think it was from Sweden, but I am not sure. I'll look it up.

You could take a door just like the drawers and try to slam them as hard as you could and then about an inch from the frames the doors would stop and slowly snap shut, pretty cool! They also held my kids body weight with the door open and him hanging on them, he is about 50 lbs so I thought that was pretty cool. All my stuff in this house can not handle that at all.

 

[Chris Hughes]

A set of BlumMotion slides for a 24" cabinet drawer cost me about $30.00 KV sidemounts cost me $17.00.  When I tried to buy the same slides a year ago someone tried to charge me 75 bucks retail.

 

[dirtydeeds]

sheet goods in a basement?

use moisture resistant MDF

dont use melamine faced chipboard (partical board) in unheated damp or humid places

it has little strength and absorbs mioisture like a sponge

 

[joez71]

Tom Bainbridge  is right, if your using malemine boards make sure you get the Moisture resistant stuff (MR) as for the doors i have used a MR MDF board with a matt malemine coating, painting it is a breeze and it seems to route/cut better than regular mdf.

Note I am in Australia and Malemine is pretty much the only stuff kitchen carcasses are made of down here.

joez71

 

[polarsea1]

I plan on using MDO on some cabinets in my parking garage due to the moisture of rain and snow on the car.  I'm told they use it on the big green sign boards on the freeway.  Since the green signs never seem to fall down, I guess I'll have to buy some!

The Coast Guard uses MDO for dayboards, the red or green channel marker boards used in harbors and other navigabe waterways. Holds up pretty well.