-
Sheeting the walls of my Office Unit to then apply graphics, help & advice needed?
Morning all
So I’m looking at making my office look a little nicer for when clients come in but the walls are a mixture of breeze block, concrete and what looks like some kind of board bolted to it.
I’m thinking of putting battens up and boarding it out then covering with graphics, this will give me a nice clean image and a nice surface to work on.
What kind of material is best to use?
I understand when building staging for events, they use OSB board, is this right? I can’t work out how you would apply graphics to this as I thought it was rough?
Is OSB board the right material to use, What about MDF, Plywood, hoarding board? Although I want it to look nice, I would still like to keep the costs down.
Thanks
-
7 Replies
-
Having just done work on our old shop and paid for the bits, plaster board is the cheapest board at about £5 a board. But will graphics stick to that I doubt it, without it being plastered which bumps the cost up.
We once made a partition and put mdf 5mm boards on, then printed wallpaper and covered the mdf, served a couple of purposes, showed we could print wall paper with logos, and we advertised some services via a printed message. We than fixed various signs to the board to show customers, which was easier being mdf.
If that makes senseIf you want to look trendy, we visited a barbers to quote and she did fix osb to both the floor, walls and ceiling, I think the shop was in a bad condition and that was the quickest and cheapest solution to make it look clean and straight, it looked quite smart to be honest, on the ceiling she pva glued marvel magazines pages….not saying do that foe a signshop, Lol
-
Run a 2×2 inch wood baton horizontal along the bottom of your wall, and run one horizontal along the top of the wall.
Print the full wall onto the banner material in vertical drops. joining it with 1-inch overlaps with banner hem tape.
Hang the banner from the top wooden baton, by Stapling or screwing it along the top. keep it horizontally taught/tight.
Now just do the same along the bottom, but pull down slightly on the banner as you fix it.
you will be left with a perfectly flat display now, and because it is banner PVC, it will keep any sort of cold from the brick and any dampness out of the room. It is very cheap and quick to do.
some years ago we had a damp wall in our unit. I did exactly the same as above, but this time i fixed the wood baton to the ceiling and the bottom one to the floor. But 10 inches away from the wall. the outcome is exactly the same, perfectly flat digital printed wall. however this time I took some old fluorescent strip lights we had in a cupboard and mounted them on the wall. the outcome was a huge illuminated digital printed wall, dry and kept the cold out. this was previously an old discoloured damp wall.
-
Thanks Rob, I might just do that for the moment and i’m in the process of looking for another unit do why waste money.
-
Robs got me thinking where can we do that in our unit :awkward:
-
These are done straight onto our plain white painted (Matt emulsion) plasterboard stud walls.. mix is Avery and Metamark wallpapers..
Attachments:
-
Hugh
Did you plaster the boards as well or just paint the boards directly knowing you were going to apply the graphics? -
quote Iain George:Hugh
Did you plaster the boards as well or just paint the boards directly knowing you were going to apply the graphics?Just painted them initially, it’s a dividing wall between us and my landlord. the matt emulsion was just to make it look brighter until I decided what to do! The print behind the desk was done about a year ago and is holding up just fine.
There are some imperfections of course – wherever there were imperfections before, but they’re harder to see now!
Log in to reply.
