My uncle told me to always cut my dados a hair wider than the plywood thickness

I was building a set of kitchen cabinets for a client in Springfield and ignored his advice, thinking my plywood was exactly 3/4 inch. The plywood swelled a bit in the shop humidity and I had to force every single shelf in, which cracked two of them. Do you guys add an extra 1/32nd or just trust the plywood specs?

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abby_morgan182d ago

Springfield humidity is no joke.

simonk982d ago

I grew up in Mobile and spent a summer in Springfield. Is the humidity there really worse than the Gulf Coast? It felt pretty normal to me, just a regular hot summer. Maybe you just had a bad week. People talk about humidity like it's a contest sometimes. I remember walking around and it was fine, not some special kind of awful.

amyh121d ago

Mobile has that thick, salty air but Springfield just gets this heavy, still dampness that sits on you. It might not be a contest but @abby_morgan18 is right about it being no joke. The heat there gets trapped in a way that feels different from a coastal breeze, even if the numbers look the same. My clothes stuck to me the whole visit in a way they never did down south.