Large sheets cardboard needed

[Gayle]

If anyone has any really, really large cardboard boxes, I'd appreciate them I need about four. I mean the really big ones that you get computer screens and stuff in.

Please pm me.

Thanks

[Neil]

I don't know what you want it for but 8' by 4' hardboard is only £4.48 at B&Q and they will cut it for you

Hardboard (L)2440 x (W)1220 x (T)3mm

[Gayle]

That's a really good suggestion but I have absolutely zero budget for this and I need at least 8 sheets - cardboard would be just as good as hardboard.

[Neil]

What are you doing that would need 8 of 8 by 4 sheets?

I have that key for you, I will give it to you on Friday morning.

[Gayle]

I'm doing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at St Mary's school. They don't have a stage so I have to use backdrops and my idea was that I would use the shop rail - see separate thread - with cardboard hanging from it that was interchangeable with different pictures painted on it.

So they need to be large (to fit on the rail), light (so they can be moved by children) and not dangerous (so they can be moved by children), free (because I have no money for this as I'm doing it out of the kindness of my heart and I've already paid for the licence) - so I need free cardboard.

[flashy]

this may sound stupid but cant you paint on white sheets?

calico or something like that, its quite stiff (or as stiff as sheets can be) and should do the job as good as cardboard

[david1]

Go to Curry's or comet , they always have large cardboard packageing to go around the washing machines they deliver . Its worth a try ???

[flashy]

ahhhhh yeah, go to the back of the store and nick it out of the skips

[Gayle]

I could paint on sheets and I have considered it but it's harder to paint on fabric than on cardboard, so I really want cardboard. Plus, cardboard is rigid, I can just imagine giving the kids sheets to hang in between every scene and they'd end up being wrapped up in them.

[flashy]

lol true

[flashy]

if you dont like the idea of nicking it from the skips then take me with ya, i'll do it

[Neil]

So what size card do you need to fill a shop rail?

[Gayle]

I'm guessing that I need some of those big boxes that computer screens come in - see post 1!!!!!!

[david1]

See post 7 they sell tv's also . lol

[mallard]

I hope you can get it sorted.