Where do you buy bog-standad sticks of chalk these days?
Before I trawl round and get bemused looks from a generation of youths brought up on whiteboards, do toy shops still sell it? Wilko? Staples? Screwfix don't.
I want to mark up some chases and socket outlets on a breeze-block wall - is there something other than chalk to use?
Could try a timber crayon...a big yellow crayon.
mark
I got my last pack from a toyshop but I think I've seen it in large Asda/Wallmart stores in the kids section. Certainly getting rarer though.
Toy department of Wollies or other department stores, toy shops. Early Learning Centre has 3 versions on their web site. You may have to put up with colours rather than plain white.
================================== If you can't find chalk try a 6" nail used as a scriber; not very visible but better than nothing. Felt-tip pens also work but don't last very long.
Cic.
Tesco do (at least the big superstore near me does) and my local post office does. Dressmakers' suppliers do as well, as it's used for marking out on cloth (tailoring).
Arfa
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They (and engineers) use french chalk. This is much harder than blackboard chalk.
Blackboard chalk could have effete French chalk any day.
BTW Harry, french chalk (talc) is much softer than blackboard chalk. HTH.
And much more expensive w/w.
Mary
Ditto "blackboard paint".
Got my latest "box" of chalk from the local post office (I was using it to "load" a string on a plumb bob so it would give me a vertical chalk line). This seems overkill (price wise) but
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on some soft stuff. As you say, no good on a blackboard, but then it's not for writing on a blackboard that he wants it ...
Arfa
A chalk line
just cut a strip of plasterboard, use that. A fat felt tip pen would also work fine.
NT
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Boxes of white, or mixed colours.
That is a very different type of chalk.
Dave
Look for pavement chalk. Comes in sticks about an inch in diam. Available in every kids toy shops.
Dave
Carpentry pencil or a chalk line (and chalk powder) which s/fix do sell.
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