Weight of shet materials

[The Medway Handyman]

Anyone know where I can find the weight of sheets of ply, MDF, chipboard etc?

Google is not my friend....

[Gareth]

I guess you know the size and thickness so if you knew the density you could calculate the weight?

Some searches turned up these densities:

Chipboard 600 to 700 kg /m^3

Plywood 500 to 650 kg /m^3

MDF: 680?830 kg /m^3

Some data here for marine ply:

[The Natural Philosopher]

wood is about 0.5-0.9 the weight of water.

a cubic meter of water weighs a metric tonne.

Unitary method?

[fred]

Gareth's post reminds us that there's little to link chip and (particularly) mdf back to their native wood origins.

[newshound]

How accurately do you need to know? At a density of 0.75 an 8x4 of 18 mm is about 43 kg. Some sheet material has weights printed on it.

[Frank Erskine]

A gallon of water weighs 10lb. :-)

[The Medway Handyman]

[stuart noble]

Blockboard is the lightest. 375 Kg/m3 they say

[The Natural Philosopher]

MDF just floats. Chip floats a little better.

You have a perfectly good way to estimate.

[The Natural Philosopher]

All of which fall nicely into the 0.5-0.9 tonnes per cubic meter.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Liteply is lighter, or even balsa wood, if we are deviating entirely from what the OP said...

[michael adams]

This Australian site gives weights for MDF, various types of ply chip(particle) board and others in various sizes

MDF - scroll down the page for the table

find the others click on the menu on the left.

michael adams

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[stuart noble]