Hello!
I'm going to install thin plywood sheets with an outer layer in walnut around the kitchen island and on a wall in the kitchen. The wall is plastered, the kitchen island currently only has the cabinets assembled, but I'm considering adding an 8mm MDF on the back to reinforce before mounting the thin plywood.
The question is, what should it be attached with? I was considering PL-400, but I read about someone on the forum who used tile adhesive for something similar.
Screws are excluded for aesthetic reasons, but small nails might work... the question is whether they would just shoot straight through the material.
Grateful for tips!
I'm going to install thin plywood sheets with an outer layer in walnut around the kitchen island and on a wall in the kitchen. The wall is plastered, the kitchen island currently only has the cabinets assembled, but I'm considering adding an 8mm MDF on the back to reinforce before mounting the thin plywood.
The question is, what should it be attached with? I was considering PL-400, but I read about someone on the forum who used tile adhesive for something similar.
Screws are excluded for aesthetic reasons, but small nails might work... the question is whether they would just shoot straight through the material.
Grateful for tips!
Tomture61
Self-builder
· Född i Luleå
· 6 315 posts
Tomture61
Self-builder
- Född i Luleå
- 6,315 posts
Pl400 glue 
If you can arrange a clamp-free solution with pressure over most of the surface, I would have used regular wood glue for the MDF. If you can't do it yourself, I would have cut the MDF and fixed a mounting solution with screws from inside the cabinet, for example, with T-nuts/screw inserts in the MDF and then let a carpentry workshop run it in a veneer press for you.
On the wall, I would have used construction adhesive, but carefully read through the different instructions first. I find that many are too viscous to just be drizzled on and pressed out by bringing the surfaces together. I really like Pattex No More Nails, which I feel doesn’t suffer from this, but I don't know how it performs with a veneer board.
On the wall, I would have used construction adhesive, but carefully read through the different instructions first. I find that many are too viscous to just be drizzled on and pressed out by bringing the surfaces together. I really like Pattex No More Nails, which I feel doesn’t suffer from this, but I don't know how it performs with a veneer board.
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sinuslinus
Träskalle
· Östergötlands län
· 6 024 posts
sinuslinus
Träskalle
- Östergötlands län
- 6,024 posts
I would use an ms polymer glue in a tube and spread it out with a glue spreader/glue scraper before applying it to the wall. Then it doesn't build up so thick and there's less risk of the plywood warping from water-based glue.