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After hours with a heat gun getting these magnetic strips off the wall in my last place, I'm thinking that sticking the magnetic strips on to a board and affixing that to the wall might save some future pain.
Framing the 2m x 1m (magnetic) map without glass would be a more expensive option, but if persisting with the magnetic strips and sheet material idea above, what sheet material would people recommend?
Thinish plywood? Or is there some kind of light rigid foam core type alternative that may work, and not deteriorate with the weight of the map?
Or is there some kind of light rigid foam core type alternative that may work, and not deteriorate with the weight of the map?
Foamex would be perfect for that. Pretty standard in the graphics industry. Another option is dibond, also a common graphic substrate.
Thanks Nick, sounds like once screwed in to the wall it's solid and no worries with the weight of the map.
Not sure if a 2x1m sheet would fit easily into a Fiesta, but hopefully a local stockist in BS3.
Foamex would be perfect for that
That was my exact thought - very rigid, and very light, it’s available in a variety of thicknesses as well, I worked for a time for a point-of-sale graphics and display company, corrugated cardboard was used for things like dump-bins, Foamex for pretty much everything else, particularly display boards that hung from ceilings with monofilament line; because it’s so rigid, it hangs well, but with very little weight on the fixings. It’s handy for making a sort of lap board for writing or sketching on when sat in a chair - I’ve got a sheet with my BT Apple Keyboard and Magic Trackpad on, using Velcro dots, so I could sit on the couch and use my Mac Mini, ‘cos it’s hitched to my telly, and have a flat surface to write on if needed. Just realised I’ve been using it for around fifteen years!
Might actually switch back to 4mm ply - much cheaper!
(wallpaper) paste it! Looks great.
+1 Dibond also (that’s just a brand name) - are used to stuff it’s generically named aluminium composite panel. I recycle the sheets from old signs, just cut it to size with a decent utility knife and lightly key the surface with a sander or sanding block before fixing anything to it. You can glue your own battens and mounts on the back of it with epoxy, just look online.
are used to stuffI use the stuff
I like the foamex approach, nice and light, but not worth the extra cash.
Will probably screw a 2x1m piece of this on the wall, and add the magnetic strips to it ready to take the map.
Should mean an easier taking down in years to come.
Foamex for the win - those mag strips are well pricey for what they are.
my go to answer for fixing something to something else that I might later want to take off in a pain-free way is to use 3m command strips. Any reason they wouldn't work here?
Foamex for the win – those mag strips are well pricey for what they are
Thought it wasn't a bad price for 8m of decent stuff? Whatever I'd save on cheaper mag strips would be dwarfed I expect using foamex over ply though.
use 3m command strips. Any reason they wouldn’t work here?
They probably would work, but expect you'd need a lot to keep the fairly heavy 2m x 1m encapsulated map flush to the wall? The mag strips work well for this (8m of the stuff), and wouldn't leave any residue behind on the map back itself which is good.
Foamex is great but if you fix it rigidly it can warp if there are extremes of temperature.
You'll see wavy signs on takeaway frontages throughout the land when they used it to save a few quid over DiBond! 🙂