5 Ways to Check the Quality of Plywood

Humans can be a bit paranoid or sceptical sometimes, especially when money is involved. Of course, it’s your hard-earned money, and you need to be a bit careful with your spending and splurging. However, what do you do when you want to ensure getting a product or commodity that is top quality but have no knowledge as to how to go about buying or dealing in it.

Being clueless is natural. No one can have knowledge about everything and anything, and especially something like building a home from scratch to a furnished flat may itself have at least a whole host of things that you didn’t know existed. Plywood is one of these things that go into the making of your home, and you may have heard about it but surely might don’t know about it in-depth, so how exactly do you go about making sure that if or not the plywood that you are buying is top quality. Let’s tell you how exactly and easily you can find out what plywood is the best quality and which is a cheap knockoff.

How to determine plywood quality?

There are quite a few methods to go about finding out the quality of your plywood. There are a few traditional means and a newer and technology-related way to go about it. Here we look at these methods in detail.

• Core gaps and ply lines

Take a sheet of plywood and watch it from side to side. There are these parallel lines running the length of the sheet that are all supposed to be straight lines. If these ply lines are not straight, then that indicates that there might be gaps in the different ply layers that have been clubbed together.

The best plywood is supposed to be the one that has straight parallel lines on the sides. However, these might be very pricey, and so the ones with fewer and smaller core gaps can be used in their place. However, a core gap of more than 2 to 3 mm may be more than enough. Anything greater should signal you to look at another plywood product.

• Nail test

A good quality ply knows its worth and can surely hold a nail or two, in fact, much more without cracking up. Take a sheet of plywood and bang a nail in it, and if the area around the nail cracks up or shows signs of gaping/damage, then you need to know that this is not the plywood you want for your furniture nor in general.

• Paperwork

Good quality plywood comes with its grading certificate, just like a student who has passed an exam. Manufacturers test plywood quality and get it checked via third party testers, and so they should have the certification or paperwork to document the report of the performance of the piece of plywood that is under the spotlight. If there is no such physical proof to display, then maybe you should keep looking for that better quality plywood.

• Weight test

If the plywood, when picked up from the side, appears to be light in weight, then it surely is hollow and hollow plywood is no good for any purpose. Good quality plywood is supposed to weigh heavy to show that it is built for durability and won’t break easily.

• CenturyPromise App

Thanks to technology and CenturyPly for coming up with an application to test the plywood quality. Century Promise is an app specifically designed for the purpose of letting people know that their purchased plywood is verified and top quality material. Easy to download and use, the app is available on the App Store and Play store and provides the user with an E-warranty certificate and information about the manufacturer of every plywood borough from CenturyPly.

Conclusion

Don’t you just love it when a top brand like CenturyPly thinks out of the box and changes the marketplace with an out of the box move like Century Promise? We for certain know now how we verify our plywood quality next time.