Plywood
Engineered plywood has come off the floor and into the fore
Plywood is a building material constructed of thin sheets of wood bonded by heat, pressure and glue. The direction of the wood grain alternates on each ply, or layer, which makes the panel strong and flexible.
Plywood has been around for centuries but really took off in the postwar housing boom for basic construction.
A coat of clear polyurethane makes the once-ignored wood grain of plywood an attractive wall paneling.
Large plywood sheets are 4 by 8 feet.
Once used for subfloors and roofing, plywood has gained popularity as a finish material.
Plywood is the original engineered wood and evolved into glulam, oriented strand board (OSB) and laminated veneer lumber.
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