Looking for Product advice… Wish to construct a interior wall that is suitable for posting large maps. Wall will be 24×8 ft. Looking for a board product (4×8’sheet) that will be durable and suitable for an office entrance display area. Maps will be changed frequently and I would like the previous tack holes to “heal” and disappear. Looking for something more visually pleasing than the old standby cork board. Any leads on potential solutions would be greatly appreciated.
Bobmcc
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homa sote..the grey stuff. Or paint it.
edit to add....burlap covered DW too..or burlap on foam.
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Edited 7/18/2004 5:49 pm ET by SPHERE
dont take make cork board, like tile that go over whole wall. not bullenton board type but 12x12 cork
i tend to agree with brownbagg. and i think ive seen cork in rolls somewhere, might need a ply backer.
tyke
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I'll combine two of Sphere's suggestions. Burlap or any coarse fabric over homasote. Drywall is too hard, IMO.
Homosote will work well, but the burlap will look like the Arkansas state capitol building. have you considerded a metal wall and hang the mapsm with magnets? many years ago we finished out an office for an oil company, and one wall in each office and the conf room was sheetrock covered witha layer of sheetmetal (I think oit was called paint grip) with countersunk screws, then a layer of vinyl wallcovering that was designed to be used with eraseable markers. They had special magnets made with their logo, and I swear you could hang a bag of sakrete off the magnet. They used to post several layers of maps, and the magnets held tight.
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Arkansas State Capitol Building. Scale model of the U.S. Capitol building. Lots of marble, not much burlap.
Leigh
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i'm with ed on this one- look into sheet steel options to use w/ magnets. i'm designing in galvanized sheeting on a couple parts of my shop (overhead door after it's insulated and big quad sliding door closet) so i can hang plans, etc.
(oh, and ed- maybe it was the mississippi capitol?) ;-)
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Sometimes finding the homosote can be a bear, but it dose work for pinning things on. We did some about 10 years ago, and just used regular fabric on our prototypes--that was not so good. We sent the real one out to an upolsterer--that was the trick, wall quality fabric and a thin layer of foam fabric backer.
Given my druthers, I'd go with magnets on a dry erase surface any day. No holes to fuss with, tape residue will come off with goo-gone, all sorts of advantages.Occupational hazard of my occupation not being around (sorry Bubba)
What about what they used to use when I was in school?--it was called a bulletin board (but it wasn't cork) and had some sort of textured, almost woven vinyl covering over what, I don't know (maybe something like Homosote), but it was pretty much self-healing (this would have been in the sixty's). They also had board with surfaces that were like real dense foam rubber. Maybe could check in a school supply catalog or on-line.
Another idea is drafting board cover material over roll-type cork. That is self-healing, but may be expensive.
The Homasote people make a burlap-covered product. Quite expensive.
Here ya go.
Edited 7/18/2004 10:59 pm ET by Bob Dylan
Check out Bancork its cork laminated to burlap ,comes in colors not just cork tan .its also mixed with plasticizer so its washable.
don't have a web address but their ph# is 610 863 9041.
The burlap is the backing matrix not the finished face
Edited 7/19/2004 12:10 am ET by steveh