Laminate Screen Material and Testing! - Page 6

What number is on the back? I'll ask the Wilsonart people I'm talking to if they can identify it.

I'm not sure if you answered this or not, but you didn't have any problems with the paint adhering to the laminate did you? If not and the laminate doesn't need to be sanded and primed with a special primer to have paint stick to it, this really makes this an interesting choice as a substrate. Like I said before, someone could put it up and use it as is until they are ready to paint it and kind of have the best of both worlds... a simple but good one step, yet staged for future screen upgrading with painting and tweaking if needed or desired. If the grays come up as viable options, we really have something exciting.

I agreed with you rfisher... white screens of any kind aren't light friendly.

Ericglo granted this thread is about laminate, but if the white, and maybe even the grays can be painted as well, it opens this stuff up as a precolored substrate anyone can use... as is or painted too. The more people that want this stuff the better it is for those of us trying to keep people interested in it. Painting it can be a different thread if it works.

It doesn't sounds like he has a sheet of any of the Wilsonart's we've seen. I am curious to see what Home Depot gave him...

I hate holiday weekends somethimes! This means we won't hear back from the Wilsonart color lab until mid-week at the earliest I think.

Right now I would have to recommend to people that want screens in excess of the 4x8 size that they solely want to paint to check into the Twin White screen material on the Rose Brand website. If they want something over 4x8 size to paint, that is cheaper, and it is actual screen material. Before anyone says anything, yes it is white, but it is available in very large sizes and it is paintable. Nobody is saying white works well in ambient light, so that isn't why it's a recommendation. It looks like something that could be used until you get it painted for an ambient light solution. It is after all actual screen material...

For a none paint solution, I have to say I think Wilsonart is coming in as the top contender right now. Yes people have used Formica and Pionite, but as of this writing Wilsonart is very open minded and they are trying to provide us with all the information we need. We need to work with them too though. If we show them we will buy, they will provide. They already have a huge market with counter top sales, and are willing to work with us, so let's work with them. NO I do not work for them or get any kick backs, so now that was said and done... They can even do custom colors if that is requested, but before we get all caught up in that, so will Formica, and I am sure Pionite will too.


I am excited and want this to be paintable as well as an extremely viable one step that offers whites and grays with very little effort, but I think we should go slow and get some long term data in. I would also love to see some of the guys that have experience with complex mixes and the skills painting to take a look at this and the data and see if the grays could be used as a premade base for an advanced top coat, but that should be explored in a separate thread the same as paint tests. Isn't that after all what this whole forum is about? We should work together and not try to compete. I don't want to sound like I am going back on what I just said, I think competition is good and healthy as long as it's friendly and people build on each other's efforts and experience... but we all should work together and build on things.

I think we are getting some very good data and disseminating that information. There are people on here that can even convert the laminate gray data into a paint formula, which to me is even more proof we should work together and be equally excited.

This was an extremely long post and I apologize about that and did not mean to interupt the flow of things here, but I really and passionately believe this...

That is actually a good thing to be reporting back then

rfisher thanks for proving this is a paintable material. My concern was from reading on all the home improvement sites that there looked to be a special way needed to prep the material.

I think proving laminates are paintable is and was an important inclusion to this discussion to show this is a pretty versitle material, but we don't want to turn this specific thread into another paint thread. Don't get discouraged about the one comment rfisher... Tiddler has a new thread started specifically for the type of paint technique you are using and your mix as well as screen shots and info on laminate painting will fit in and be perfect over there... plus like Tiddler said we can cross reference between the two threads for people that are interested in just one of the topics.

Not sure why the UPC's would be needed, but we can find that information.

All you need is the color name and any Lowes or Home Depot can find the rest of the information, but having the color numbers I listed on the previous post couldn't hurt just to make sure it is the right material.

Just out of curiosity why do you need the UPC information? D354-60 will get you Designer White in a matte finish, the only other things you need to provide are what size you want, and how you will pay for it, wait 2-3 days for it to arrive, and mount it

Not that I know of, but I'm pretty sure that was one of the samples I sent to be analyzed... hopefully we will have that data this week.