HDO plywood

[Wild Hare]

I just had a customer drop off a sheet of HDO. Works for the gov. and says must be HDO, rather than MDO what I have in stock. Anyway one side looks like cheap knotty pylwood and the other side had the paper backing. I always thought that the paper side was the back. Can I paint the paper side like normal and use that surface as the front?

 

[weaselboogie]

Also called duraply. Prime it , paint it. It's rated for exterior use even if that looks like paper.

 

[Billct2]

Your MDO has the paper side on the back?

 

[J Hill Designs]

its resin coated - standard

 

[Gino]

This sounds scary.....................

 

[J Hill Designs]

MDO comes three ways - resin, primed, or enameled...or variations thereof (resin/prime for instance - resin 1 side, prime 1 side)

 

[Wild Hare]

OK, I guess that question made me sound stupid. But I always order my MDO primed, and this is HDO so it threw me.

 

[visual800]

hey if he is from the government and dropped it off thats what you need to use i wouldnt have even questioned it....cause they know best

 

[Craig Sjoquist]

yup prime & go to it

HDO is way better then MDO.. HDO suppose to have no knot hole voids like MDO does