Do-it-yourself blackboard repair

At a certain age - not very respectable, but already almost reasonable, everyone was mischievous and schoolchildren. Even inveterate honors students dreamed of conducting a smelly chemical experiment under the window of an athlete - so as not to force a scientist to hang out on a horizontal bar like a sausage. Having your inventive backbiters, you already have to ask the exact opposite question: How to eliminate the consequences of the actions of a household demon? Today, specifics are on the agenda: Do-it-yourself school board made or restored.

Today we will make a modern school board

First you need to find out what the modern blackboard is made of? We will need:

• Chipboard for hard base. Sanded, 16 mm thick.
• Frosted glass front. You can take thin, but not less than 3 millimeters.
• U-shaped aluminum profile 25 mm wide (including 3 mm glass). The internal distance in such a profile is 20 mm - just right for our purposes.
• Matte enamel dark green or black. If you can buy paint with fine porcelain abrasive (used in machine tools and for painting outboard motors) - it will be just perfect. It will last ten years longer.
• High-quality insulating tape for the seal - so as not to reinvent the wheel.
• Sheds on the wall.
• Silicone sealant or glass adhesive.
• Self-tapping screws.

If you intend to make a swing board, in the manner of a trellis, you will need butterfly loops. But today the school will manage with the usual textbook measuring 2000x1350x25 mm.

In any case, you will have to order glass cutting in the workshop. We recommend that you immediately pay for handling and shipping - to avoid injuries and accidents.

• Glass 1997x1347 mm.
• Chipboard 1999x1349 mm.
• 2002 mm - 2 pieces, upper and lower profile.
• 1347 mm - 2 pcs., side profiles.

All aluminum profiles are sawn at an angle of 45 degrees and the saw cut is processed with a small file or needle file.

Before you make a school board, you need to glue the main surfaces and process them. We used a table smaller than a blackboard and occupied it for three days.

Place chipboard on the table and carefully remove crumbs, sawdust, etc. from the surface with a damp cloth. Apply glue in strips parallel to the long side of the board, spaced approximately 50mm apart. Ask someone to help you, because it is almost impossible to carefully place the glass in a horizontal position on top of the adhesive base alone.

Glass needs to be “fidgeted” a little, pressing it over the entire surface. It is smaller than the base, so distribute the tolerances evenly and immediately grab the perimeter with electrical tape. The tape should not be wider than the grips of the aluminum profile.

The glue will dry for about a day, but after three hours you can start painting the glass. Enamel will lie well on frosted glass if you do not decide to apply it with a brush. For a spray gun, the paint must be diluted with an appropriate solvent in a ratio of 5:1. Two approaches with a break of a day were enough for us to achieve a uniform color and an acceptable surface.

We snap the aluminum profile only after the complete drying of the coating and glue. You can fix it in the ends of the chipboard with 4x16 self-tapping screws around the perimeter of the board. Since it does not carry any load, but serves only as a frame, this will be enough.

We figured out how to make a school board ourselves, or rather, for now, only a school board module.It can simply be hung on the wall by screwing elementary fasteners to the base, or it can be combined with mechanisms or devices.

So, taking a wider profile and gluing glass on both sides of the chipboard, we get a ready-made module for a turntable or hinged blackboard. Using a sheet of metal instead of glass (of course, not a three-millimeter thickness, 0.4 mm body sheet is quite enough), we get a magnetic board and so on.

Almost all young children are very fond of drawing, often using the floor, walls and pieces of furniture as a “canvas”. Taking into account the needs of their child, resourceful parents make certain adjustments to the home interior, using a special paint, which is easy to apply and just as easy to remove chalk. In this case, it is not at all necessary to paint an entire wall or cabinet. A small chalk board is quite capable of satisfying the creativity of a child, which can also be useful for adult family members if you use it, for example, for notes and reminders of important matters.

The paint, which has the effect of a slate board, is very often used to restore furniture, making the coating matte, velvety and pleasant to the touch. Its creator is British designer Annie Stone. In 1990, she developed a special finishing material, which she began to sell under the brand name "ChalkPaint".

Making a chalkboard opens up a wide range of creative possibilities

For your information! Given the name and consistency of "ChalkPaint", it is logical to assume that one of its components should be chalk (calcium carbonate). However, the problem is that for more than 20 years, the original recipe has not been revealed by its creator. Therefore, many clones have appeared on the market, created on the basis of a variety of materials.

In addition to an interesting visual effect, chalk paint has a number of operational advantages:

• fits well on almost any material (wood, wood substitutes, metal, drywall, plaster, brick, tile and glass);
• has excellent adhesion to the surface;
• has good hiding power, hiding most of the defects of the old coating;
• dries quickly;
• does not have a strong odor;
• non toxic.

The disadvantages of such a finish include its price and scarcity. "ChalkPaint" is not supplied to Russia at all, and its counterparts from the companies "Tikkurila" and "Siberia" are much more expensive than conventional paints and varnishes. Therefore, in order to save money, many people try to make a slate coating on their own, using more accessible and inexpensive components for this.

Factory slate paint is available in several colors

To make chalk paint with your own hands, you can use several recipes. The essence of each method is to add a fine loose substance to the usual glossy paint, which gives the coating the necessary roughness.

Acrylic or latex wall paint is suitable as the main component. The second is also made on an acrylic basis, however, due to the addition of rubber to the composition, it has increased strength characteristics. Therefore, if we are talking about the manufacture of a chalkboard, the coating of which will be constantly subjected to certain loads, it is better to stop at the latex version.

As an auxiliary component, you can choose sodium bicarbonate (regular baking soda), calcium carbonate, gypsum, tile grout, and even corn starch. All options have the right to life, and their success primarily depends on the right consistency.

The preparation of such a composition is one of the most affordable options, since soda can be bought at any grocery store. The very process of creating paint is quite simple: you need to mix the two components until a homogeneous mass is obtained.If the mixture is very thick, adding a little water will help bring it to the desired consistency.

Advice! To avoid lumps, soda or any other bulk material should be added gradually.

When using such a composition, the complete coverage of the treated surface occurs when applying 3 layers of paint. After drying, the finish has a rather massive grainy texture. If it is necessary to get rid of such an effect, for example, for a chalkboard, too much grit is superfluous, it is enough to perform a fine grinding of the surface.

Application of corn starch

Just like soda, cornstarch is sold in almost any supermarket and has a very affordable price. The technology for obtaining the desired mixture does not differ from the previous version, the only point is that you may need a little more water to get the mass that is optimal for applying to the surface.

For complete painting of the surface, 2 layers of coating are sufficient. At the same time, the need for fine sanding is also present, since after drying strokes will be clearly visible, which can adversely affect the texture of the finish.

Application of calcium carbonate

The price of 1 kg of fine calcium carbonate powder exceeds 200 rubles, so this chalk paint recipe is not the cheapest. But from the point of view of the result, the addition of chalk allows you to get, perhaps, the best composition, which, after drying, has a uniform texture and does not require sanding. Full coverage of the part occurs after applying 2 layers of paint. With such a finish, you can safely open not only a chalkboard, but also furniture.

The use of building gypsum (alabaster) is one of the best options, taking into account the price / quality ratio. This material is an order of magnitude cheaper than chalk powder, while the coating after 2-layer processing has a uniform matte texture and, subject to the correct consistency of the paint composition, does not require additional grinding.

Note! Gypsum dries very quickly, so after making the mixture, it should be immediately applied to the surface.

Tile grout is in the middle price range between calcium carbonate and stucco. The quality of the chalk paint obtained with this material is high enough, so it can be used to safely finish furniture. As a rule, it is enough to apply 2 coats of such a composition that the coating is uniform and does not have visible defects. In this case, fine grinding is not required, and after the surface has dried, you can immediately draw on it or make inscriptions with chalk.

Making a chalkboard with your own hands with the necessary components is very simple, especially if the master has detailed instructions with intelligible illustrations at his disposal.

For work you will need the following materials:

• glossy acrylic latex paint;
• finely dispersed bulk component (one of those mentioned in the previous section);
• container and stick for making the mixture;
• medium hard brush or roller;
• paper tape, if you need to protect the edges;
• base for painting.

If the work will be carried out in a residential area, it is desirable to protect the working space from accidental ingress of paintwork material. To do this, you can use oilcloth or old fabric.

Note! The color of the paint for the chalkboard is selected individually. The choice does not have to be limited to the black option. Chalk will be clearly visible on brown, burgundy, blue, green and any other dark surface.

To make a slate board, a standard paint tool kit is used.

1. Any material can be used as a base for the board: plywood, chipboard, fiberboard, MDF, natural wood or drywall. It is desirable that the base be smooth, without visible defects.Otherwise, it is necessary to sand the surface with sandpaper. The same procedure (grinding) should be performed if the workpiece has a glossy finish. In order for the paint to have good adhesion to the surface, the gloss must be removed.

For this master class, an ordinary cutting board was chosen as the basis, which is available to any hostess

1. Chalkboard paint can be prepared using any of the methods listed above. Most often, a combination of latex paint with gypsum or tile grout is used for such purposes.

If the surface to be treated has a small area, you can prepare the finish in any improvised container

1. The resulting mixture should be applied immediately after preparation, as it dries quickly. In order for the coating to turn out uniform, brush strokes should be fairly smooth.

2-layer processing is usually enough to completely paint over the workpiece.

1. Drying time for chalk paint is in the range of 30 to 60 minutes. If everything has been done correctly, the surface will soon become matte and velvety.

If there are visible irregularities, light sanding with fine-grained sandpaper should be carried out.

1. After drying, the slate board can be tested for functionality by making a small note or sketching a fun drawing.

The colors of the chalk and the board should be contrasting so that the inscription is well read.

Despite the excellent performance of chalkboards, they can be easily scratched by hard objects. Therefore, you should not draw with cheap chalk, since it often contains impurities of sand and small pebbles. For home use, it is better to buy special crayons for drawing, which tend to respect the surface.

For your information! The composition of crayons for drawing, in addition to calcium carbonate, includes a coloring pigment and a binder designed to reduce dust formation during operation.

Do not use abrasive material or aggressive cleaners to wipe the inscriptions from the board. To erase the chalk, just apply a damp soft cloth or sponge.

The use of a soft material to clean the board from chalk will significantly extend its service life.

A do-it-yourself chalk board for drawing or writing will allow you to solve several problems at once. Such an accessory will decorate almost any interior, and all important things will be recorded, which means they will be completed. But most importantly, the results of children's creativity will move from the walls, floors and furniture to the surface intended for this.

Drywall is a fashionable and modern building material. With it, you can realize the most daring architectural solutions. For example, various types of arches,.

Floor lamps, sconces, chandeliers, table lamps and nightlights make our life brighter and happier. Properly directed light will favorably emphasize the dignity of the interior. .

As practice shows, even in a small family, over time, there is not enough space for things. You can solve the problem with lack of space by buying a new rack,.

The chalk board is increasingly finding its use outside the walls of educational institutions. The strict rules for designing a classic school board have blurred, in their place have come interesting shapes and a decorative appearance. The chalk board has become part of the interior, allowing not only to decorate the room, but also to bring a useful component to it. Picking up on newfangled trends, designers began to widely use slate surfaces in their projects, photographers included chalk boards in the list of necessary props for photo shoots, calligraphers began to paint slate photo zones at weddings and presentations. Such a creative boom was due to a new look at the good old chalk board.

So I, imbued with this idea, decided to make a chalk board with my own hands.Only I could not find a special paint with the effect of a slate board. As often happens, if you light up some idea, you need to start implementing it on the same day. Patience is not enough, hands itch to get to work. I started looking for an alternative, as it turned out, there is a simple and budget option, which I will talk about in today's master class.

In order to make a slate board with our own hands, we need:

• Acrylic paint for wood;
• Matte black (or other to your taste) acrylic paint for the working surface of the board;
• White Spirit;
• Fugue for tiles (grout for filling tile joints);
• Drill;
• Electric jigsaw or hacksaw;
• Construction primer;
• Brush and foam roller for decorative paint;
• Sandpaper;
• Screw-ring, screws;
• Baguette frame;
• Twine (rope or lace).

Tip: To decorate a chalkboard, you need to find a base with a large flat surface on which we will apply paint. The basis can be a wall in a room, a kitchen cabinet door, a baguette frame with a back wall (back), a sheet of plywood or fiberboard.

An old baguette frame was found in the attic. According to the dimensions of the frame, the back wall is cut out of fiberboard (48x38 cm, thickness 0.5 cm). Since the baguette frame lost its pompous appearance from time to time, and the stucco molding partially fell off, it was decided to remove it and clean the frame of paint.

Gypsum stucco is well removed with a spatula, and old paintwork with sandpaper. We clean the plaster and paint, apply a primer to the cleaned surface. After the primer has dried, cover the frame with two layers of paint with an interval of 24 hours. It remains to decorate the frame itself. We take paint and a brush. With light strokes, without painting over completely, we apply paint to the surface of the frame.

After about forty minutes, we moisten the cotton wool with white spirit and erase with it those places that came out unsuccessfully when stained. You can also walk along the surface to be painted so that the unpainted areas acquire the shade of the decorated paint.

Leave the decorated frame to dry completely. Now it's time to work on the back wall, which will be the basis for the slate board. For reliable adhesion of the paint and the fiberboard sheet, we clean its smooth surface with sandpaper. Then we cover with a primer, after about an hour, we apply a base coat of matte acrylic paint.

We apply homemade slate paint on top of the base layer. In order to make a paint with a slate effect, we need the acrylic matte paint itself and a fugue (tile grout). We take 3 parts of paint and one part of the fugue (3: 1) and mix with each other until smooth.

Tip: In order to minimize the formation of lumps, add the puffer gradually while stirring the paint at the same time. Paint color can be chosen to your taste. If the paint is not light, then the chalk on it will also be clearly visible.

After the mixture of paint and fugue is ready, we roll it out with a foam roller on the surface of the future board. Roll out the paint evenly and in one direction with a roller. The roller needs to be pressed a little when rolling on the fiberboard in order to roll out small lumps and press the fugue particles into the paint. If you want the chalkboard to last for a long time, then cover the base of the board with at least 3 layers.

After the paint on the frame and on the base of the slate board has dried, we combine the frame and the back wall together and fix them together with clamps. On the reverse side, we mark the markings with a pencil, along which we will fasten the frame to the back wall with screws. We take a drill with a drill of a smaller diameter of the screw thread, drill holes and wrap the screws in them.

Tip: By screwing the frame to the fiberboard, we will get a gap between the frame and the fiberboard sheet. Chalk dust will fall into the gap (where glass is usually inserted), which will prevent everything around from being stained with chalk.

Having decided in what position the board will hang (horizontally or vertically), we drill holes for fastening the screw-ring. A ring screw is a screw that has a ring instead of a head. Through this ring, you can thread a rope and hang the board on the wall. According to the thickness of the frame and fiberboard, we measure the length of the screw-ring so that when twisting it does not crawl out onto the front side of the baguette frame.

We clamp the ring screw in a vise along the measured length and bend it. Then we wrap the screw with the ring into the holes until the fold. We insert the rope into the rings and tie it - the chalk board is ready! With proper decoration of the baguette frame, the made coated board can fit into any interior.

Tip: To extend the life of your chalkboard, use soft crayons or a chalk marker.

In the way considered in today's article, if necessary, you can paint any objects and surfaces. With the help of colored crayons, you can create unique props for photo zones, wedding photo shoots and signs for messages to your loved one. If you cover a metal surface with homemade slate paint, then magnets can be attached to the chalkboard. Such a slate-magnetic board will be a great alternative to the refrigerator door. Housewives will appreciate the slate surface in their kitchen.

The chalkboard is great for a kid's room. On it, you can learn the alphabet, train to draw letters with chalk, draw and develop creative abilities in a child.

Such a useful recording tool will become an indispensable assistant in the workshop. It doesn’t matter whether it is sewing or locksmith, there is always a need to make a drawing that will always be in sight when doing work. The most important thing is that at any time you can make changes, erase everything and draw again.

The chalk board fits well into our interior and has become a good helper for organizing time and affairs. In addition, the home organizer from time to time becomes a message board.

The other day I got a large baguette frame from the attic, which I also plan to remake and hang in the room. What will come of this, you will find out in the next article. Subscribe to site updates, join groups on social networks, and you will be aware of new publications!

The slate board in the interior is an extraordinary solution. If you want to follow the individuality to the end and make a slate board with your own hands, and not buy it in a store, then you will most likely have a question: what to do with paint? Save money and make your own chalkboard paint. Whatever surface it is applied to - furniture or a special board, slate paint is completely different from the green or black that is used in schools. Our paint can cover completely different surfaces: the door of a kitchen cabinet or the head of a bed, turning an ordinary piece of furniture almost into an art object.

Materials: primer for latex paint
latex paint of any color
mixing container
brush or roller
nozzle "mixer" for a drill

1. Mix latex paint with primer in a container. The ideal mix ratio for chalkboard paint is 1 part primer to 8 parts latex paint.

Stir well, otherwise the primer granules will be visible on the surface of the board. Therefore, it is better to mix with a mixer.
In order to get blackboard paint of a beautiful slate color, and not mourning, black paint can be mixed with white, in a ratio of 2.2 liters: 0.2 liters (2.2 liters of black paint and 200 ml of white). Then add primer to the mixture.

2. Paint the surface with slate paint. The surface must be prepared in the same way as it is usually done before painting. The paint is applied in two layers.
The color range of paints for chalkboards is endless. You can choose any bright contrasting color.

3.We bring the board "to mind". In order for the board to become finally suitable for drawing, it must be sanded with chalk, then wipe off its traces with a dry cloth in a circular motion.
Thus, it is possible to make paint for the slate board and the board itself, which can successfully become an ornament not only for children, but also for adults.

All of us once went to school and never, as children, thought about the conveniences that were provided to us. But years passed, and my daughter went to school. And us parents had to repair the classroom. We wanted to create good conditions for comfortable education of our children. Unfortunately, the state has stopped thinking about it, putting it on the shoulders of teachers and parents. We easily coped with wallpapering, painting windows, desks and chairs.

But the state of the board led us into confusion. She was no longer able to serve either the children or the teachers. Even sitting on the first desk, one could only barely make out what was written there. The top painted layer of the wooden board has worn off, exposing the wood structure.

We asked ourselves how to cover the board so that we could still work productively on it. Enamel paints obviously did not suit us, since chalk does not write normally on them. We decided to use the anti-corrosion primer "Zebra" GF-021 red-brown.

True, many of the parents were skeptical about such a proposal, but we, taking full responsibility for ourselves, decided to take a chance by testing such a coating for the school board. First, we washed the board well, let it dry. They began to cover with a brush, but the brush left stripes, but the foam roller did the job 5 +. The primer "Zebra" does not have a pronounced unpleasant odor like paints. The surface is matte, not glossy like enamel paints. The primer lay down evenly and covered the board well, even one layer was enough for the board to get the look we needed. The board was ready for use the next day. But it had to be used in action.

Our joy knew no bounds when we ourselves tried how chalk now writes on our new board.

New because this is the impression that everyone who saw it and wrote on it had. During the year, children used the new beautiful, and most importantly, easy-to-read board. Now, at the school where my daughter studies, all the boards are brought into proper shape with the help of an anti-corrosion primer.

Quite often, when creating the interior of a children's room, you want to decorate it in a special way, creating an appropriate atmosphere so that the child can not only play, but also develop.

At the same time, certain elements are used that are directly related to education, teaching children relevant skills.

Amateur photo of the interior of the room, where the blackboard is used as a wall

To begin with, it is necessary to say that various kinds of enamels can be used for these purposes, which create a strong film on the surface and at the same time give it a matte appearance. Recently, however, completely different materials have begun to appear, and although the price for them is quite high, the result obtained fully justifies all the costs. A good example is the well-known school boards.

Thinking about how to paint the blackboard? To create coatings of this type, there are various types of specialized materials.

• First of all, you need to prepare the surface itself. To do this, it is cleaned with fine sandpaper to get rid of the villi.

Children's room decor with walls that you can draw on with chalk

• At the next stage, the installation instructions recommend using a special impregnation to increase the level of surface adhesion.. It will also protect the material from rotting, mold and harmful insects.
• Next, you need to choose the right primer.. To do this, you can use a neutral dye or a special composition that creates a film on the surface. However, professional craftsmen recommend using a primer, which was specially designed for chalkboard paint to be applied to it.

Special magnetic primer designed to create a layer to hold small metal objects on the board

• This type of material quite often contains inclusions of magnetic particles.. This is necessary so that under the paint layer there is a layer capable of attracting metals, which will serve to fix various elements on the surface of the board.

Advice!
You should not save on a primer with magnetic particles, since this ability is sorely lacking in the learning process.
This will pay off and can be an additional element of games and education.

Using similar design solutions to decorate kitchen walls and even furniture

The appearance of the layer, which should be obtained using the correct components

• Professional craftsmen recommend using store formulations that were specially developed for these purposes. They allow you to get a uniform matte layer with high wear resistance. At the same time, he will receive a good slate color, characteristic of these products.
• For application to the surface of the material, a paint roller is used for painting. At the same time, professional craftsmen recommend using a minimum amount of dye so as not to create smudges.

Some types of specialized paints are also endowed with magnetic properties, but the use of a primer is more effective and economical.

• If you need to make paint with your own hands, then for these purposes it is better to use a primer and latex paint. They are mixed in a one to one ratio to create a firming effect. It should be noted that only black paint and a primer of the same solvent composition should be used.
• To obtain a slate color, it is recommended to add a little white pigment to the composition. Then the board will not be too gloomy, and its surface will not change its structure.
• It is important to remember that it is necessary to achieve the effect of a strong film on the surface, which will have high wear resistance. Color characteristics in this case do not play a special role.
• It is also desirable to get a matte finish when painting, since the gloss will reflect light, and it will be inconvenient to work on such a board. This must be taken into account immediately and when choosing enamel, focus on this property.

Using this material to decorate the walls of a children's room, it allows not only to develop a child, but also gives him the opportunity to independently create a comfortable and beautiful interior.