Chalkboards UK is offering a MASSIVE 20% OFF its entire range of Pavement Display Chalkboards throughout March!

On top of that, you can get an EXTRA 10% OFF if you order 10 or more of the same product!

That means you can SAVE up to £65 inc.VAT on our largest A-Frame Chalkboard, up to £35 inc.VAT on one of our most popular A1 A-Frames and A2 budget boards can start from as little as £24.14 inc.VAT each!

CLICK HERE to visit the Pavement Display Chalkboard section NOW!

Keep watching this space, we'll be announcing the March Photo Competition next week - so keep sending those photos in!

PS. DON'T FORGET! It's Mothers' Day on Sunday 15th March, St. Patrick's Day on Tuesday 17th March and the Easter weekend is Friday 3rd to Monday 5th April - all ideal events to use our chalkboards to promote your business!

... the winner of our February Photo Competition is The Royal Oak at Tetbury in Gloucestershire. They sent in this great picture of one of our framed A1 chalkboards on an easel, with a very colourful design promotion their February events.

Well done to The Royal Oak, it really is a great picture and your pub looks well worth a visit too. I'm sure that the next time we're in the Cotswolds, we'll be popping in!

We had some fantastic pictures submitted last month, so it was tough job choosing the best, but we though that the work that had gone into this one, merited the prize.

Thank you to everyone who sent in their photos in February. Keep watching this space, we'll announce the next competition in the next couple of days.

At Chalkboards UK, we manufacture a wide range of blackboard products from various materials for different applications.

When we first started manufacturing chalkboards, over a decade ago, all our outdoor products were made using 6mm water-resistant MDF, painted with blackboard paint. These products worked well with stick chalk, which we still sell today.

We then started selling a limited range of liquid chalk pens - packs of white or assorted colours in 2 different nib sizes. We quickly realised that these pens caused a problem on the painted MDF. The liquid chalk applies very easily, can create some very vivid and impactful chalkboard messages, doesn't wash off in the rain; but, even using professional chalkboard cleaners, the liquid chalk leaves a ghosted image. Over time, this ghosting builds up and detracts from any new chalked messages.

We tried extra coats of blackboard paint, new cleaning materials and even supplying tins of blackboard paint, but none of the solutions we found were ideal.

After a great deal of research and tests with materials such as Foamex, we discovered a blackboard high pressure laminate (HPL), which was ideal for a whole range of our products - and the liquid chalk pens wipe off leaving no ghost image. The HPL has to be imported and is a very expensive material, so we decided to offer a choice between painted MDF and HPL, depending on the customer's requirements - but always advising to use stick chalk only with MDF.

We are now able to supply most of our products in a choice of painted MDF, Foamex, HPL and a new mid-price MDF product with an 'Easy to Clean' surface laminated onto both sides.

NEW Chalk Pen Range
On top of that, we've just expanded the chalk pen range to include some great new colours - CLICK HERE to visit the Chalk Pens Section.

Info Pages
There's more information on the website, with dedicated pages for Chalkboard Care and Chalkboard Surfaces.

If you would like any more information about these products and their application, please do not hesitate to contact us on 01384 445844 or e-mail sales@chalkboardsuk.co.uk

... but please don't forget - ONLY USE STICK CHALK on painted MDF!

In January, we launched a new competition - Like, Share, Follow, Retweet or Pin us on our social media channels for a chance to win a £75 voucher to spend online at www.chalkboardsuk.co.uk - every entry received a 10% OFF voucher code to use on the site too!

Over the course of the competition we received over 150 new interactions across all of our social media, making the promotion a great success for us.

The winner was picked at random from all of these interactions and we're please to announce that Niki Marie Wardle from the North East of England is the winner - Niki followed us on both Twitter and Pinterest. Congratulations Niki!

This month's competition will be announced in the next couple of days, so keep watching this space - and keep taking those Chalkboard pics (#chalkpics), just in case.


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