Looking for cardboard to make play-house for 16 month old daughter. Anyone had experience sourcing large sheets double wall cardboard? Want to make a nice job so prefer not to cut up old boxes.
Not a traditional building material in UK, I know, but with a little imagination cardboard makes an interesting material. Check out the cardboard school, and some of Shigeru Ban's work.
Slightly different, I know, but I recently needed a small quantity of double-wall cardboard boxes made to an exact size, and found these people very helpful:
I'd suggest double-wall plastic eg 'correx' as used by signwriters, then it can go in the garden and won't go soggy with the first shower.
I doubt *she'll* care :-)
Owain
The 16th month old won't care about it being an old box... Indeed an old box with the flaps etc will probably be more exciting than anything you can make. Source, try the whitegoods shops, I expect they get a number of TV boxes to dispose of after they have delivered a set.
My two (9 and 6) still have great fun with old boxes.
Although check for the metal staples you often get in large cardboard boxes.
Christian.
They just add a gritty reality when playing Doctors & Nurses :-0
MBQ
I dread to think what you'd include in Every Child's Cops and Robbers Playset - mask, stripey jumper, cosh, plastique, hi-vis vest, CS spray, set of steep stairs...
Owain
You forgot the Tazer, bags of white powder and 10 grand in Monopoly money ;-) Oh, and one of those heavy metal cylinders to bash in the door of the cardboard wendy house.
MBQ
Yes, I needed some sheets about 10 years ago to model a proposed rear extension to the house. Back in those days, software was supplied shrink-wrapped in cardboard boxes, so I asked the company who made the boxes for us. They dropped off 6 triple-walled corrugated 6'x4' sheets from their artic at home for free. I've no idea how much they would have cost to buy, but you could look for a cardboard box fabricator on your area. Sadly, we stopped using their cardboard boxes not long after that.
cheers, Pete.
The common light stuff is twinwall, sounds like what you need is triplewall. Twin has has 2 walls and 1 infill, triplewall has 3 & 2, and is used on big boxes.
NT
NT:
related question: why does no-one use ply style triplewall cardboard, ie with the 2 corrugated layers at 90degs to each other?
NT
Actually the very nicest thing I have seen is card skinned polystyrene sheet.
Its got built in cavity wall insulation.
Get it from craft shops.
I suppose a 16mo is unlikely to be smoking yet...
Owain
Pete
would I need PP for that?
NT
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