Thread: stabilising flaky chipboard

My friend had a table on the verandah which was doing that, and getting worse, so we mixed some cheap pva glue up one in four with water, and gave it a few sloppy coats of it. Worked fine.

Donna

Now there a simple idea, Thanks Donna
Any other ideas?

Paint it with any old left over paint that you've got.

go for the PVA, it will soak in better than paint.
If I have to restore somthing really borerish I literaly soatk it in a 1/4 PVA and water mix it really toughens it up.
astrid

bondcrete or welbond with plenty of solvent instead of water, it dries faster and tougher and you need as much penetration/drying with badly behaved chipboard as you can get.

I just bought a vintage saw table mounted on a sheet of it on a frame from auction- left it in the backyard for a light sunshower and the damn stuff looked like it was made from vitabrits afterwards. Saw dropped through but miraculously survived!

Thats interesting,
what sort of solvent?
astrid

Good ol fashioned shellac works well also. Have used it a few times on flakey chipboard. Binds all the plakey bits and makes everything go nice n hard.

Originally Posted by sundancewfs

My mother-in-law has a kitchen table that is laminated chipboard. Its quite old, but very serviceable the chipboard underneath is flaking and putting a lot of dust on the floor. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what product I could use to stabilise the chipboard and seal it? I would prefer a product I could pick up at a local hardware like bunnings or such.
Thanks

My Sons' desk had the same problem ,I used Cabots marine varnish .
I just happened to have some left over from another job.

Kev.