[Bert Coules]

Does anyone know of a source for single 8x4ft sheets of white foam board?
All the suppliers I've found will only sell boxes of a dozen or thirteen.
Presumably this is to avoid (or minimise) any possible damage in delivery
and I can see that would be a risk with a single board: but if there is a
supplier I'd appreciate any details.

Many thanks.

Bert

[Tim Watts[_2_]]

On Wednesday 30 January 2013 15:24 Bert Coules wrote in uk.d-i-y:

Does anyone know of a source for single 8x4ft sheets of white foam board?
All the suppliers I've found will only sell boxes of a dozen or thirteen.
Presumably this is to avoid (or minimise) any possible damage in delivery
and I can see that would be a risk with a single board: but if there is a
supplier I'd appreciate any details.

Many thanks.

Bert

What foam? Expanded polystyrene, often traded as "jablite"?

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[Bert Coules]

Tim Watts wrote:

What foam? Expanded polystyrene, often traded as "jablite"?

The stuff I'm thinking of - I have a sample in front of me - has a solid
lightweight core sandwiched between two sheets of what feels like very thin
plastic. I've always known this as "foamcore". I thought that Jablite was
just expanded polystyrene in slab form.

Bert

[Tim Watts[_2_]]

On Wednesday 30 January 2013 17:34 Bert Coules wrote in uk.d-i-y:

Tim Watts wrote:

What foam? Expanded polystyrene, often traded as "jablite"?

The stuff I'm thinking of - I have a sample in front of me - has a solid
lightweight core sandwiched between two sheets of what feels like very
thin
plastic. I've always known this as "foamcore". I thought that Jablite
was just expanded polystyrene in slab form.

Bert

Ah - with you now. Signwriters, as others have said. Go round one offering
cash.

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[DerekG[_2_]]

On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 15:24:23 -0000, "Bert Coules"
wrote:

Does anyone know of a source for single 8x4ft sheets of white foam board?
All the suppliers I've found will only sell boxes of a dozen or thirteen.
Presumably this is to avoid (or minimise) any possible damage in delivery
and I can see that would be a risk with a single board: but if there is a
supplier I'd appreciate any details.


Try googling for exhibition contractors or Yelling for "Foamex" board.

DerekG

[Bert Coules]

Astonishingly, I've just discovered a signwriting company not five minutes
walk from where I live. And they can supply from stock a single sheet of
exactly the right material.

They can also get a cut-to-size aluminium channel frame, which is something
I'd considered both for neatness and for protecting the edges of the
foamboard, but it's pricey: £120 plus delivery (plus VAT) and another
hundred for respraying if I want it in matt black (which I do). So I'm
looking elsewhere for suitable channel, perhaps in plastic, to fit over the
edges of the 5mm board.

Many thanks to all who replied.

Bert