Post #529282 by GatorRob on Mon, May 10, 2010 6:02 PM

On 2010-05-10 11:57, I dream of tiki wrote:
I have a similar dilemma. I'm a renter who can't do anything that severe to my pad. Has anyone had any luck affixing to something that can go with once moving? Foam core? Luan?

How about attaching the board to walls?

And most significantly, how about dust on the tapa? My dust allergy has me in strangle hold.

Any thoughts are appreciated.

Liz, Our room once was the back porch, now framed in. So two of the walls were once outside stucco-covered walls. Gluing lauhala to the stucco was no problem, but tapa presented a challenge. What I ended up doing was gluing the tapa to a heavy paper board (kind of like a classroom whiteboard) and then liquid nailing that to the stucco. I don't know why you couldn't duct tape some foam core board together to get the size you need and then glue the tapa to that. Foam core is light and so is tapa, so the whole thing could be attached to the wall with some thin hangers or maybe even velcro strips.

As to the dust, how about spraying the finished tapa with something like non-glossy polyurethane or something similar to give it a slick coating that dust won't cling to as easy. At least it would make it easier to wipe it down.