Preserving cabinets

It is particle board and easily damaged. My husband says there is nothing we can do because they are cheap, but I'm hoping there is a trick out there I can use so it doesn't fall apart so quickly.

@Carmelanirel2 I am a layman about it and don't know if the particle board is inferior to the laminate.

@changjiangzhibin89 Same here, but I think the particle board is the cabinet part, the part with the shelves, and the laminate is the counter itself. My counters are fine, but scratched in a few places where my children didn't realize they had to use a cutting board.

I know, that is why I am hoping someone knows the best way and it would be even better if someone has done something to their own cabinets to preserve them and what they did.

@jhechorain Yes, but I mostly find on how to preserve the particle board before it is used, not after. Since the cabinets are supposedly a finished product, I don't know if the same treatment would work or not.

Have you looked it up online any where? There are probably some DIY sites out there but I don't know what they are either.

Thanks @AmbiePam, but not really, that is why I'm asking for help.

@Carmelanirel2 But you always figure it out.

@AmbiePam Sometimes. In this situation I have to get my husband's approval since it will be him installing it.

Good idea, if I ever make it to one. Right now we only have one car and there is something wrong with it, so my husband doesn't want me to drive it for any distance.

@JudyEv I did, and it was hard, I couldn't remember the material and then found out it is particle board and when I searched, it showed how to preserve this material before it is made into something. Then I did find a site where they took a cabinet apart and sprayed it with kiltz, and that sounds reasonable to me, but my husband was all about how he can glue and repair it, to which I said, you can't repair water damage. I don't think he understands because he doesn't see the damage because he doesn't clean areas of the cabinet that I do.