Laminate flooring uses.

[philipm]

Has anyone used laminate flooring for making crown boards? I have a load that have been taken up and it seems a waste to put them on the bonfire.

 

[Hachi]

I've seen all sorts of things made into bee keeping eqpt, the cheapest crown board I've seen was made from correx the stuff est agents use as for sale signs so get woodworking. Most of the Cmrcl beeks I know make a lot of their own kit from anything they can lay their hands on, even better if free. Necessity (incl cost) is the mother of all recycling.

 

[BeeJayBee]

It might make some nice dummy frames too, slotted together and cut to size.

 

[Barbarian]

I have re-cycled flooring which was a surfaced hard-compressed cardboard (Floors to Go). In the apiary the board gradually absorbed water, swelled and became heavier.

For some apiary purposes I use thin boards from old garden sheds.

 

[lukestew]

laminate flooring is often made of MDF and will get damp and swell up and go to mush. If, however ,its ply based then it should be better. Also I would personally avoid MDF generally as its made with a resin thats banned in the US for heath reasons....Its mainly due to the dust thats not good for you when its cut. I dont want to be a scare-monger but in my option its worth avoiding putting stuff like that in your hives. Im a carpenter by the way and make alot of my own kit. Correx is the stuff thats used for estate agents signs and ive seen great travel/ nuc boxes made with that.
Stick to ply and real wood for hive bits in my opinion.

 

[Varan]

Poison

MDF has a urea-formaldehyde compound in it. It is known to be a carcinogen to humans, who knows what lurgy will get released when it's damp and around bees?