Making a whole wall a whiteboard

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Anyone got any experience doing this to their office wall(s)?

I bought a massive roll of sticky back vinyl stuff months ago with the intention of doing it ourselves one weekend but it's turned into a bit of a disaster. Main issue being the air con control units and plug sockets.

A paint solution might be better for us but I've heard it's a bit of a nightmare to work with? Any recommended products?

We need a large space to write on, hence not using a traditional whiteboard. It's also a tech company so fits the look..
 
I dont have a whiteboard effect but I opted for glass as the back 'wall/partition' to my office. Its about 15 foot by 7 feet high, and with my magic marker it works a treat with what I use it for.
 
We have large (ceiling to floor) glass panels with white backing that make up about half the wall space in some of our offices.
 
We've got the paint on a few walls in our office. Works fine (unless someone forgets which wall it's painted on :p).
 
We have paint in our offices at work that we can write on. It works very well. Unfortunately I don’t know the product that was used.
 
The best and easiest way would be to write on the wall as-is and then knock it down, rebuild it, re-plaster and repaint ready for the next time.
 
Six6siX said:
The best and easiest way would be to write on the wall as-is and then knock it down, rebuild it, re-plaster and repaint ready for the next time.
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If only :p
Irish_Tom said:
Try this stuff Tektura ClearErase.
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Just watched the video, this looks ideal! Have you used it? The tin looks pretty small but the consistency looks watery enough that it might do a whole wall. The ones I want to do are 4 metres in length.
 
shifty_uk said:
Just watched the video, this looks ideal! Have you used it? The tin looks pretty small but the consistency looks watery enough that it might do a whole wall. The ones I want to do are 4 metres in length.
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I've used their other whiteboard product before (WallTalker) and we did get a tin of ClearErase but we didn't use it in the end, so I couldn't comment on how easy it is to apply or how far a tin will cover. They're very helpful if you have any questions though.
 
We've got the painted whiteboard walls in our offices. It was applied by the guys who fitted out the office and I remember them at the time saying a) the extra prep was required made it a pain to do and b) how expensive it was.

4 years later it's still up there though (despite a few scratches from people backing their chairs into it and gets used a lot. We took a slightly different approach on another wall a year or so later and purchased a large glass board backed in the company's colours..this also works well.
 
scratch said:
We've got the painted whiteboard walls in our offices. It was applied by the guys who fitted out the office and I remember them at the time saying a) the extra prep was required made it a pain to do and b) how expensive it was.

4 years later it's still up there though
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I've looked into getting it done too, the process was to sand down, paint a few layers of primer, then a few layers of the paint. Obviously the smoother the surface the less likely it is for writing to wiped off.

I've instead opted to go for frosted glass panels. Look very professional and less expensive than you might think.
 
The painted stuff works well so long as it is cleaned daily with proper spray etc. Otherwise it quickly gets clouds of marker embedded. I'm with an earlier poster who advised glass walls with white backing. Glass is easy to clean and perfectly smooth for writing on.
 
We had a white wall painted at work (with the proper paint, I add, not just any white paint!) and it's rubbish. My gut feeling is that it's just not smooth enough.

Chalk markers on the glass partition instead work *much* better.
 
We had a look at painting a wall when we renovated our home-office - the advice we were given is that it takes a massive amount of prep to get a decently flat surface, and even then there will be imperfections which will cause issues with writing/wiping. We ended up compromising on a large magnetic whiteboard.

If you need a bigger space to work with and are prepared to spend the time sanding, resanding and resanding the wall to get it perfect - then this (http://www.smartersurfaces.co.uk/st...MI8-P3wO-E1gIVYrftCh1QfwqgEAAYASAAEgJHOvD_BwE) might be the answer - magnetic whiteboard paint....
 
shifty_uk said:
Anyone got any experience doing this to their office wall(s)?

I bought a massive roll of sticky back vinyl stuff months ago with the intention of doing it ourselves one weekend but it's turned into a bit of a disaster. Main issue being the air con control units and plug sockets.

A paint solution might be better for us but I've heard it's a bit of a nightmare to work with? Any recommended products?

We need a large space to write on, hence not using a traditional whiteboard. It's also a tech company so fits the look..
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I can't recommend a brand, but at one of our offices, we had an entire room painted with Whiteboard paint. We didn't use it all the time but we used it often enough that it was well worth the time. You say you're getting in a mess with air conditioning and plug sockets. The secret to wall-papering is not skill, it is patience and attention to detail. Too many people approach painting and decorating as an easy task because it is a simple task. It is simple, but not easy.
 
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