(10-17-2015, 05:30 PM)EdK Wrote: I have some sheets of 1/4" luan plywood that I got from a friend who didn't need them a good 10 years ago. I think I might put them on the wall and then top it with some of that white melamine board that's washable.
Ed
When you come up with an easy way to cut the plywood and melamine to fit nicely around the existing outlet boxes let me know. I've wanted to put melamine coated plywood on the basement walls for many years but have not come up with a reasonable way to it it around the existing outlets. Maybe I should remove the "fit nicely" criteria and just get it done.
I've done drywall in other parts of the basement using a Dremel drywall bit but drywall had two advantages over melamine coated plywood. First the drywall cuts much more easily than the plywood. Second, a multitude of sins in drywall can be resolved with patching plaster, sandpaper and paint. With the plywood, not-so-much.
Arvid