WBP

[meow2222]

How weatherproof is WBP normally? I had a batch that delammed after one rainfall. Wasn't too pleased.

NT

[John Rumm]

Very

It wasn't WBP then...

I have had a sheet laying outside for years, and its still retains perfect integrity (although obviously rather discoloured and mouldy looking!)

[Dave Liquorice]

I suggest that it wasn't really WBP then. There are bits of 18mm WBP leant against a wall outside with one end on the soil and getting well hidden by undergrowth that have been there for a period measured in years but haven't delaminated...

[Andrew Gabriel]

I've seen a couple of cases of the waterproof flooring chipboard treated this way too, and been surprised that it survives without damage.

[meow2222]

Thats what I thought too, just wanted a sanity check. In which case beware of Wickes WBP - it isnt.

NT

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember [e-mail] saying something like:

I have an unpainted sheet doing service as the bottom have of a sliding workshop door and it's been that way for ten years without flinching from the weather. There's a lot of crap sold as WBP now.

[Dave Liquorice]

I suprised that Wickes would be knowingly selling WBP that isn't. Maybe it got shuffled in the racks by another customer, ply is ply is ply 'innit...

ISTR that WBP has stamped marking on the face(s) saying it is.

[Huge]

The last lot I bought from Wickes didn't. The label said WBP, but the ply was completely unmarked.

[meow2222]

I bought a bunch of them, no rack shuffled stuff, and all were stamped WBP on the side. But not remotely weatherproof.

NT

[John Rumm]

I would take them back as not fit for purpose.

[Clot]

I'd have to disagree, they might have been fit for porpoise.

[John Rumm]

Sounds like they would have de-laminated long before the porpoise even came up for air!

[meow2222]

Yes - told them what I thought too.

NT