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dry erase board material???

wannabe

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Hello Fellow BARFers,

I have a very random question. I want to make one wall in my living room into a magnetic dry erase board. (This is what a bachelor considers decorating the place.) Don't ask me why. I just think that it would be cool.

I checked the 'net and found that large dry erase boards are freakin' expensive. Does anyone here know where I can get the material for a dry erase board? Does it come in rolls, or is it sold as a paint?

I want to do it, but I don't want to kick down $200 for it.
 
magnetic? think thats gonna be pricey

sheets of white board material can be found a many lumber stores (not OSH etc. but dedicated lumber yards) 4x8 is that average size. Southern Lumber has it i know

not sure about the paint, but if you could find that, then some sort of sheet metal attached to the wall would work.
 
Yes, there is a commercially available dry erase paint. Try Sherwin-Williams, I think that is where my dad's paint shop sources it from. If not, I'll ask him where it comes from.
 
A smooth wall with high gloss paint will work for dry erase. Thin metal or plexi-glass will work aswell. The rolls are useually big for dry erase board and pricey.
 
B12Bill said:
Southern Lumber has it i know
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Thanks, I'll check with them this weekend.


turbobrick said:
Yes, there is a commercially available dry erase paint. Try Sherwin-Williams, I think that is where my dad's paint shop sources it from. If not, I'll ask him where it comes from.
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Thanks for the heads up. I'll wait until you confirm with your dad. This may be the best case scenario for me so far. I could buy some 28 - 24 guage sheet metal and paint it with the dry-erase paint and mount it on my wall. Instant magnetic dry-erase board. :thumbup


Please keep the ideas coming. :thumbup
 
B12Bill said:
magnetic? think thats gonna be pricey

sheets of white board material can be found a many lumber stores (not OSH etc. but dedicated lumber yards) 4x8 is that average size. Southern Lumber has it i know
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The stuff they have at lumberyards is called melamine laminate. Sometimes just referred to as melamine. Home Depot has it in 5/8" or 3/4" (can't recall of the top of my head). However, it's applied to particle board and is HEAVY. You might want to try melamine on 1/4" (used for drawer bottoms and partitions) if you can find it, but that's gonna be a bit trickier. Try lumberyards that sell to cabinet shops.

These are all available in 4' x 8' sheets and aren't too expensive.

None of these is going to get you a magnetic surface, of course.

Actually, it just occured to me that you should contact your nearest friendly cabinet shop and see if you can buy a few sheets from them, if that's what you want.

Ed
 
stuff i was referring to was NOT melamine, it is whiteboard paint applied to a backer - not even an 1/8" think IIRC, maybe hardboard, definetly not fiberboard or particle board. sheets are pretty flexible, and thin.
 
You should make a giant ant farm

Materials...

2 large pieced of plexi glass - equal sizes
3 strips of plexi glass, 1 inch by 1 inch each and long enough to go around 3 sides of plexi glass sheets
2 more strips that are almost as long as the 4th side but maybe 8 inches shy. They should be equal lengths
8 to 10 plexi glass cubes - 1 inch all around
Plexi glass apoxy
8 to 10 wood bolts 2 1/2 inches long
8 to 10 washers
A few bags of dirt (or maybe many)

Glue the strips all around the outside. Leave a gap in the center at the top. (Not sure how to create a "door" but I'm sure you'll figure something out.)

Glue the cubes around the center so that they sheets will stay equi-distant from each other.

I'd probably dump all the dirt in at this point rather than try to feed it through the top.

Glue the other sheet on

Drill holes through the sides for the bolts (Just thought about this. Might want to make the side strips a bit wider since that's where you'll be running the bolts.)

Bolt to wall (into studs of course)

Fill with ants*

If you made the over-all box deeper (more space between the sheets of plexi-glass) you could gophers or ground squirls instead
 
JackTheTripper said:
You should make a giant ant farm
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Why? Are you trying to give the forum members someplace new to hang out? Have things gotten THAT bad here???

:laughing
 
Holy shit this is funny... I think HGTV should do a whole show called Bachelor Home Decorating.

:laughing

Ant farms and dry erase walls... you all are freaks.

(Although I had a friend who painted her kitchen cabinets with chalkboard paint, it was pretty damn cool).
 
I took a training class at Foundry Networks, and all of the walls were an Erase Board. It was pretty wild watching the instructor write examples all over the room!!
 
MizCoop said:
Holy shit this is funny... I think HGTV should do a whole show called Bachelor Home Decorating.

:laughing

Ant farms and dry erase walls... you all are freaks.

(Although I had a friend who painted her kitchen cabinets with chalkboard paint, it was pretty damn cool).
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Yeah, it's just like that Billy Crystal movie where he played the NBA referee. The first time he brought the woman to his place, she thought that his basketball hoop and parkay floor in the living room was a bit tacky. My date and I discussed the move afterward, and I was like, "Why did she have a problem with his place? It was totally cool!"

I want to enjoy my bachelor decorating days before a woman moves in an completely redecorates.
 
B12Bill said:
stuff i was referring to was NOT melamine, it is whiteboard paint applied to a backer - not even an 1/8" think IIRC, maybe hardboard, definetly not fiberboard or particle board. sheets are pretty flexible, and thin.
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Not particle board. Check. :thumbup
 
this may be $$$$, but

we used this stuff at my old job when we renovatd the office. a local painter was able to order and install the stuff for us.

http://www.walltalkers.com/
 
just plain plastic works too, but doesnt have the magnetic quality... for my japanese kanji/hiragana/katakana practice we were supposed to buy a small whiteboard... i just took an old dvd case stuck a piece of engineering paper behind it and stuck a quarter of a washcloth inside, boom, instant whiteboard with cloth storage :O but the only problem, if you leave the ink on it over a period of time, the plastic distorts
 
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