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[09:23] Kynan v. English Furniture...FIGHT!
Well, it was a forgone conclusion but - for the doubters - I won.
All the furniture in this country is made of MDF and, despite what its manufacturers and the media have to say about it, I'm not convinced that it's such a grand old thing to be constructing load bearing furniture out of.
During my brief stay over here I've so far managed to put my foot through a friends bed, broken the middle of an Argos hutch, snapped the leg off a desk and broken the head-end legs off my bed. To add to the list, this weekend I broke the foot-end legs off the bed as well!
Luckily I still had enough spare parts from the last repair to be able to put it back together (in a slightly more sturdy configuration I might add) and, after borrowing a drill from the next door neighbour and a saw from a friend, we got it back together within the same afternoon as it was broken.
That's all very well but I would expect furniture like a bed to be able to withstand any random amount of load from an averagely proportioned person; whether they choose to step daintily into bed or leap with gusto from the bathroom should not be a factor in deciding if the legs will part company with the body. Maybe they don't use thick enough boards? The board the legs were attached to, the one that gave way, was approximately 1.7cm thick. Or perhaps making furniture out of cardboard just isn't a good idea! On top of all its structural issues it seems that unprotected (painted/laquered/whatever) MDF releases formaldehyde gas from the urea formaldehyde used to hold the wood particles together!