🌼 When you first pick up GoBoard, for your firsthand experience the imagination begins to run wild with ideas for various uses for it, even outside of the tile applications.
It’s lightweight, easy to cut and handle, and it’s paintable. From theater set production, to tradeshow booth assets, temporary drink coolers, oil painting canvas, mosaic tile substrates, and more – GoBoard seizes your imagination, and the creativity begins to flow.
Johns Manville Associate Product Manager, Seth Hanson, describes his first encounter with the innovative product while at the technical center in Littleton, Colorado – the birthplace of GoBoard tile backer. GoBoard provided the rigidity and easy to assemble features required for his ‘cement looking’ flower box plans.
Have you ever used GoBoard Tile Backer for a creative purpose outside of tile? Or a very creative tile project that was unusual? Tell us about it below. Share photos if you have them.
Now, seven years later, Seth is ready to redesign them using the additional GoBoard accessories. He tells his beautiful story here:
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Made a flower box out of gold. It's seven years, yeah. So my first interaction with Go Board actually was seeing the rigidity of the board and thinking wow, this could work. And so I just grabbed a couple of boards and for my wife for Mother's Day actually created 2 flower boxes that sat in front of her house for seven years. Beautiful opportunity to to create some. Color. Every spring there were probably 24 inches wide, 12 inches deep. 3212301228121 was higher than the other, 2 1/2 inches tall or 2 1/2 feet tall and one was 2 feet tall, perfectly square and filled with dirts and sometimes poppies were put in. Sometimes it was a whole menagerie of flowers just left them as they were and they survived the the elements year in and year out without having to do any any pain. They almost looked like a cement box because cement boxes are cool, super modern. Super fun. So, yeah, were they, well, you know, I would question the contractor who made them being me, knowing what I know now seven years later about Godward and, and the the strength of our sealant I built. I kind of framed it with wood. I didn't need to frame it with wood. I could have gotten away with just sealant and and board. I'd redesign them 100%. Yeah, I would definitely do them. I would have an eighth inch gap between the boards, making sure that they were firmly supported with the sealant. And the board and I'd probably get away with with way less work and way more strength. It's a beautiful product, even if not everybody understands how beautiful a product it is.
