UK suppliers of pink/blue housing foam?
I can not find any suppliers for housing foam!?
I am looking for big sheets of the foam, I am making a rowing shell and I am going to make the mould and then fiberglass.
This is the project I am going to begin http://www.instructables.com/id/Building-a-Rowing-Shell/
All comments are welcome
Thanks
I am looking for big sheets of the foam, I am making a rowing shell and I am going to make the mould and then fiberglass.
This is the project I am going to begin http://www.instructables.com/id/Building-a-Rowing-Shell/
All comments are welcome
Thanks
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Try a decent builders merchants, like Travis Perkins, you won't find it in B+Q or Wickes for sure.
Try asking for "blue board"
You MIGHT try "Sheffield Insulations", who have distribution round the country.
Steve
Try asking for "blue board"
You MIGHT try "Sheffield Insulations", who have distribution round the country.
Steve
Oddly I bought Ping and Blue foam from B&Q and from Focus although they don't always stock it. Kaufman is the main producer and as Steve says almost any Builders merchant will get it for you .
Make sure it is the dense extruded polystyrene rather than the beaded white that they also sell for inter wall insulation
There is also a product called Cellotex - this is a foamed Urethane which depending on your application you will probably want to avoid.
Remember that standard polyester resin will melt the PS foam so you need to source Epoxy resin - A boat yard or chandlers may sort you out - The West system is the best known.
Thanks for you comment, I thought about the glue melting, but thankfully I have some foam glue form model making.
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