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Originally Posted by Patricia
Another way of getting a chalkboard that fridge magnets will stick to would be to paint a thin sheet of ferrous metal with blackboard paint and screw it to the door.
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Well, yes ... and I thought about that. The problem was finding a "thin sheet of ferrous metal" in this area. I found a lot of very thick heavy sheets (which people use when making custom firescreens), but not so much the other stuff.
Also, I wanted to keep it as lightweight as possible. Which is why it started out as just a chalkboard with a thin piece of ferrous metal mounted to the upper part of the board.
But, I did not like the way that looked, so when I found the magnetic paint, I figured it was worth a try.
Now, I've ordered two sets of those ceramic magnets which are super strong (so strong that it was often very hard to pull even the small magnets off my regular magnet boards) ... I'm going to try those on these magnet doors. I have a feeling that they will work pretty well ... probably more like regular magnets on ferrous metal.
Well, we'll see anyway.