Firstly, there is a myth in India that branded plywood from top brands is always best quality plywood. This is not always correct. Turnover of these big brands are very high and from them manufacturing all products in-house is impossible. In order to fulfill demand, these companies outsourced their product from small manufacturers or from China. Thus, their quality compromised. These companies spend lots of advertisement and other events, which in turn makes plywood more expensive than its original price. These companies concentrate on more their premium range plywood which is very expensive. If your budget is high then you can go for this premium range plywood and be tension free.
Please follow below steps; -
1. Identify area where to use
- For e.g., dry area like bedroom, can consider buying Commercial or MR grade plywood
2. Always buy from stockist or big wholesaler
- We all know plywood prices at wholesaler are lesser than retailers. But there is also some more benefits like you will get chance to choose from different types of plywood at one place. These wholesalers always maintain different type’s plywood like MR Grade Plywood, Waterproof plywood and Gurjan Plywood. Suppose you select MR grade plywood, then at these places you will get chance to see hundreds of MR Plywood sheet & easily judge quality of plywood by comparing with other. You can check lots of other factor of plywood by looking at it. And at retailer they make you select from trade sample or from one sheet, but at stockist you will see full plywood sheet.
3. Check for ISI marks
- Best Quality plywood is always ISI certified. Commercial or MR Grade Plywood is IS: 303 and Marine or Waterproof Plywood is IS: 710. Always looks for CML number underneath of ISI mark. Plywood manufacturer has unique CML no, which also help in identifying plywood manufacturers easily.
4. Check plywood from outside
5. Ask a sample of plywood to check whether plywood is full-core full-panel or not. Which wood core is used in making this plywood can easily identified from this small sample. You can also check nail holding ability of plywood.