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  1. 18th December 2007, 07:34 AM #1
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    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.
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  2. 18th December 2007, 09:38 AM #2
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    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.

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  3. 18th December 2007, 10:34 AM #3
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    Now there a simple idea, Thanks Donna
    Any other ideas?
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    Paint it with any old left over paint that you've got.

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    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.
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    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!
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    Thats interesting,
    what sort of solvent?
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    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sundancewfs View Post
    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.
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    My Sons' desk had the same problem ,I used Cabots marine varnish .
    I just happened to have some left over from another job.

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