Cork Tiles

[trebor]

Can anyone recommend some good cork for a building pin board ? Would I be better using two layers or just one ?

[Flyer]

I used two layers , overlapped, on my building board. Has worked well so far. Think the thickness was approx 4mm, so have around 8mm total depth. If I remember, I had the tiles from Homebase.

Ade

[Biggles' Elder Brother - Moderator]

Yeap I use a double layer of cork floor tiles. It was a long time ago now (they last well!) so I can't remember where I got them from, but it wasn't any sort of specialist supplier, it was B&Q or Wicks or Homebasetc.

They are stuck down onto a flat board with contact adhedsive, I do remember weighting them with hundreds (possibly thousands!) of old aeromodelling and aviation magazines!

BEB

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[trebor]

Thanks chaps, I did think of plaster board but it can be messy and I did hear its starting to get difficult to dispose of the waste now ( could be wrong ) I,m still trying to get cheap laminate worktop offcuts. Loads pop up on Facebook market place locally but it goes too fast for me. I need to hone my buying skills.

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[Peter Miller]

Go to Ebay and search for Cork Tiles, 10mm think

Brilliant I use them on my building board builtfor Easter Eagle Senior and currently my MAK 15 MP

They a re self adhesive that doesn't work to well however  SPray imapct adhesive solves that problem

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[trebor]

Some of those tiles look to have larger cork particles than others with gaps maybe I would be better with the pin board sheeting as it looks more compact less chance of my pin going in a hole

[Peter Miller]

Not the ones that I have just mentioned.

**LINK**

Try these some palces are a bit cheaper, some more expensive but they are GOOD

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[trebor]

Peter.

I looked at some underlay for hard flooring in B&Q but it seemed a bit soft to me, maybe I looked at the wrong stuff

[Ron Gray]

SLEC do nice block balsa building boards, I use one on top of an old kitchen worktop, really good.

[Nigel R]

Still using plasterboard, for reasons Dave M cites - easy to shim level, very cheap, takes pins quite well.

One bit lasts a good few builds. Our local tip takes it for recycling.

[Richard Marklew 1]

I have gone a bit over the top. I use the Wickes cork tiles and then a layer of soft vinyl flooring. It works very well, but not sure I needed the cork tiles. The vinyl flooring takes pins very easily (much more easily then the cork tiles - I tried it) and holds them firm.

I also have a cutting mat as the vinyl flooring does not respond well to sharp knives

Richard.

[Ace]

I use Sundeala base board. Its the brown soft fiber board used in pin/notice boards as alternative to cork, Common practice is to put a thin cork layer over Sundeala for appearances. Used a lot by railway model makers as a base board and available from timber merchants and DIY stores. **LINK** Smaller quantities are available at other outlets.

I use double sided tape to hold it onto a piece of worktop, them turn over when required with no disposal issues.

[MaxG]

I have used a building board of two layers of cork tiles on a blockboard base for years now. One thing I do is to cover it with a layer of thick lining paper as used for walls. I put it on with wallpaper paste and when it gets tatty I damp it to get it off and put another layer on. Means that I have a new board for every new model and the paper stops the tiles being impregnated with glue etc. You can also draw centre lines and the like on it when building.

HTH

Maxg