Thread: MDF/chipboard/plywood prices

What you are paying for is the labour in selecting, cutting, matching & glueing the veneer. The base board of MDF/chipboard is less than $50 on a bad day, the rest is the veneer.

Those prices compare fairly with the prices that were being charged by Brims when they were still in business a few years ago in Sydney & Brisbane.

This sounds a bit high to me. I can get pine for about $100 and jarrah for about $180. That's on MR MDF. Maybe you could find a direct distributor whe could give you a better price.

If that are prices for pine veneered MDF, aren't you better of buying appearance grade pine plywood?

Also look at if it is both sides high grade veneer.
If you only need one good side that is available as well, cheaper.

I have noticed big differences between suppliers, in Tassie I found if I buy straight from Gunns a lot cheaper. Prices Ken-67 mentions sound about right.

In my eyes they do the veneering almost for free for you, the price of sheet material plus veneer for both sides (inluding waste you would have had) and glue is not much less then buying veneered sheets.

Im going to have to give a few places in Adelaide a ring I think and see what the prices are down there.

Plywood is an option but MDF is more stable since i dont have a place to properly store plywood currently