Advice on suitable board material for tipper body

[Peter Normington]

hoarding board has a thinner skin, and is only finished on one side, and the finish is not as good as the skybond

I would go for skybond for the extra cost,

Peter

[Neil Speirs]

quote Peter Normington:

hoarding board has a thinner skin, and is only finished on one side, and the finish is not as good as the skybond

I would go for skybond for the extra cost,

Peter

Cheers Peter, I’ve never handled any hoarding material before so I was a bit wary of the initial saving.

Neil

[Martin Pearson]

I’ve used hoarding board a few times and not really had any problems with it for what I have done. Peter is correct in that the skin is thinner and the surface coat is not quite as good but it isn’t bad.
Neil why don’t you get a sample and see for yourself, this is going on the side of a tipper truck so will be wrecked in a week or so anyway.

The ripples in the panel aren’t actually that bad if they are the same as the ones I have done. But the vehicles were all new and hadn’t got any knocks or scratches in them when I did them.

[Neil Speirs]

quote Martin:

I’ve used hoarding board a few times and not really had any problems with it for what I have done. Peter is correct in that the skin is thinner and the surface coat is not quite as good but it isn’t bad.
Neil why don’t you get a sample and see for yourself, this is going on the side of a tipper truck so will be wrecked in a week or so anyway.

The ripples in the panel aren’t actually that bad if they are the same as the ones I have done. But the vehicles were all new and hadn’t got any knocks or scratches in them when I did them.

I find getting any sort of a sample from RH is near impossible nowadays 🙁 It wasn’t that bad when it was Europoint though.

It’s the customers request to have these panels so what the customer wants the customer gets 🙂 🙁

[Martin Pearson]

I have to admit that I haven’t actually asked them for any samples so didn’t realise just how difficult it was. I don’t tend to buy as much from them these days so have probably lost touch a bit.

[Andrew Blackett]

quote Peter Normington:

hoarding board has a thinner skin, and is only finished on one side, and the finish is not as good as the skybond

I would go for skybond for the extra cost,

Peter

Most of the stuff we do now is digital – if you’re mounting a laminated print onto composite just use hoarding, you’ll never know the skin is thinner once theres a layer of vinyl over it.

Andy