Can MR MDF ever be not green in colour?

[Chems]

I bought a lot of MR about 6 months ago and have been meaning to ask this since. It wasn't green at all, and on machining and paniting reacted the same as normal MDF. I have a feeling a yard mixup on delivery was the cause. Has anyone encountered non green MR-MDF?

 

[Jake]

I have, my kitchen doors were laminated onto MR-MDF and it was brown throughout. Egger confirmed that they supplied the panel pressers with a non-tinted MR-MDF (panel pressers said this was so it couldn't grin through veneers).

So it can be obtained, whether a timber yard would carry is perhaps less likely (nice for them to be able to tell what's what for a start).

No markings anywhere on the board edges etc?

 

[Mr Ed]

I've been told that MR MDF comes in brown, but where I buy from it is always green.

Ed

 

[Chems]

No markings on the board other than they had penciled on MR to a few as I'd ordered a mixed loading of normal and MR.

 

[Steve Maskery]

Try Jewsons. My local Nixon Knowles is part of the Jewsons company and they sell MR that looks the same as ordinary stuff.
S

 

[mailee]

I have had some MRMDF which was a brown colour and my 'normal' stuff is only green in the centre with the outside being the normal MDF colour. :wink: I could tell the difference once I started to apply the finish though as I had MRMDF and normal MDF side by side for comparison. :wink:

 

[OPJ]

I bought some 18mm MR MDF a couple of years ago (Travis Perkins) and it was brown for approximately 12in. wide, down one edge. Never had a totally brown sheet of the MR stuff but this one I had has survived like all the rest.

 

[JonnyD]

Most of the stuff I use is all green up to 15mm and then 18mm upwards it is usually green in the middle and brown on the faces about 2-3mm into the board. I think most of it is usually medite brand and what it is is burnt into the edge.

cheers

jon

 

[jedmc571]

i think it's becoming more popular having the green stuff sandwiched between the buff ( oo er missus ) :lol:

I recently phoned my merchant to say the chipboard flooring he'd delivered wasn't moisture resistant, as it's the normal buff colour? he informed me that's the way it comes now :shock: just check the print on the back.........I checked on Egger's website, and it appears that T&G Chipboard flooring is now al buff in colour.

Perhaps the same is happening with MDF ?

Cheers

Jed

 

[Calpol]

We had some fully 'MDF coloured' MR the other day, from James Latham

 

[Chems]

Well as long as I didn't get done then. Shame, I was going to tell them cause of that they owed me on the next order.