Cork Board Alternate?

[Blackcat31]

Thanks for the heads up. How many coats of the magnetic paint did you use? Did you completely cover the chalkboard with chalk before using it? I may just try the magnetic paint and forget the chalkboard paint.

We applied 3 coats of the magnetic paint and when magnetic plastic letters didn't stick as well as I thought they would, I re-coated the area again with the same results.

The chalk board paint went on really thick and was super cool but just didn't come clean after trying to erase all the little doodles and scribbles the kids made. At first I thought it was because I used cheap chalk but then I bought some really good stuff like the teachers use at school and that didn't clean off any better.

We didn't put the chalk board paint over the top of the magnetic stuff though so I don't know how that would work. The area I did was half magnetic and half chalkboard but separately painted.

[sharlan]

Thanks for saving me $$$. I'm not doing it now.

We applied 3 coats of the magnetic paint and when magnetic plastic letters didn't stick as well as I thought they would, I re-coated the area again with the same results.

The chalk board paint went on really thick and was super cool but just didn't come clean after trying to erase all the little doodles and scribbles the kids made. At first I thought it was because I used cheap chalk but then I bought some really good stuff like the teachers use at school and that didn't clean off any better.

We didn't put the chalk board paint over the top of the magnetic stuff though so I don't know how that would work. The area I did was half magnetic and half chalkboard but separately painted.