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Plywood vs Particle Board cabinet boxes and offgasing

pseudochef
11 years ago

I know this question has been asked numerous times but I'll ask it again. We've been given a choice of Sequoia Cabinets (Shiloh's particle board box version) or the regular Shiloh brand with plywood boxes. The Sequoia option would lower our price by $5000 which is significant to us. My husband is concerned about the potential for offgasing with the particle board ones along with durability over the long haul. Both types of cabinets have the ESP certification for low formaldehyde but the requirements are stricter for plywood. Does the small difference in formaldehyde really make that much of a difference health wise since they both have some small amount of formaldehyde. Also, we have the option of getting Cardell cabinets through another contractor and his price on the all plywood box version would be lower than the Shiloh all plywood version. Decisions, decisions...

Does anyone have any good info on this?

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