MDF is safe compared to Iroko.
You have had many professionals and serious wood workers say don't worry. Like you say your self "how can they be legal" simple someone whispered MDF dust contains so and so, if you swallow so and so in this amount it can do this. After the whispers got around some what at them medlin strong headed DIY'ers who really know nothing got wind it was some more like "MDF kills you after breathing 2 specs of dust oh and grandma now has to use the loo every 2 minutes as she had some MDF in her home and breathed the chemicals that leaked through some plastic laminate, you could see it leaking out, it was bright green and glowing, it even turned the cats nose orange".
In reality it does contain so and so but in no amounts that can do so and so to you within 2 days of breathing in a bit of its dust or living with it bare. Its all just so and so. Wear a mask and be aware after 40 years of daily use without protecting your self from ANY dust will do you harm.
The internet is a powerful place. I have read that tomatos cause cancer and using baby wipes on your baby gives the baby cancer...... Oh two things thats still available in large quantities in any supermarket.
Just look at the facts.
Would a country that uses any excuse to make regulations and enforce you have licenses for anything really be allowing DIY stores to sell the stuff to the public? If **** print cancer warnings on packets, MDF, if really just as bad would print warnings on the sheets :roll: . If it was as bad as you think, only tradesmen with a license that had been on a course and paid a fortune on a special van and MDF extraction could buy it and use it :shock: . Large kitchen companies wouldn't use it in kitchen construction, Ikea would go bankrupt =D> . Stop your worrying and just buy a mask. There are other things to worry about like the harmful vibrations cheap jigsaws give off that rattle your brain into an early death (hammer) <= another joke by the way, no threads on harmful jigsaws please. :lol:
Not all man made sheet material uses the same glue. Plywood is made of sheets of real wood glued to each other crossing grains, so a different glue type is used. Some Plywood uses glue that is whether and boil proof. Strand or chip board is made of chips of wood, again as these are chips of wood a different type of glue is required and used. Hardboard or (HDF - High Density Fibreboard) is made in a very similar way to MDF (medium density fibreboard) so may use the same glue, im not sure on that one. MDF and HDF is made buy mixing sawdust in to a glue and pressing that mixture at high pressures, which as its made differently to other man made boards a different glue is used which just happens to be toxic in large doses.
Burring some wood in soil can produce methane pockets which can under the correct conditions and series of events cause an explosion. There are no notices on wood about this as your more then likely to suffer brain damage from harmful jigsaw vibrations
I have swallowed no end of MDF dust in my time and I have always made it to the hospital and got a lung donor before it stops your man hood from erecting. :arrow: It effect women differently, they grow a man hood which never goes floppy :wink: , im now in a civil partnership than a marriage and can only sit on them air rings pregnant women use in comfort
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Just to make it clear, I have never been to the hospital for treatment of MDF, I still have my own lungs and a healthy bedroom life. Im not married or in a civil partnership nor do I own a ring pregnant women use. (hammer)
Oh one more thing, as some plywood is boilproof don't mean the non WBP will boil under normal conditions or in hot houses (hammer)
PS. You could a suppose get white finger from the vibration of jigsaws but I would say the chances are to slim to even consider.
