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A Whole Wall of Self-Healing Cork for Constantly Re-Pinned Displays
There is a point where a notice wall stops keeping pace with the people using it, and a board at this scale is the answer to that problem. This is the widest cork board in the range, one natural surface broad enough to carry a whole department's pinned work at once, so nothing has to come down before something new can go up. Because the cork closes over every pin as it is drawn out, even a wall stripped and rebuilt daily keeps a smooth, unpunished face instead of slowly filling with holes. The warm, flecked surface lends a softer, more natural feel to a large wall than paint or fabric manages, and a slim satin silver frame keeps all that width looking sharp rather than sprawling. Best suited for large studios, school display corridors and community halls where a sizeable wall is re-pinned constantly and still has to look cared for.
Why High-Traffic Display Walls Pick This Wide Cork Noticeboard
- The Widest Cork Surface in the Range. Broad enough to span a long wall in one piece, this board pulls a full spread of pinned work into a single block, so a busy studio or hall gathers everything onto one continuous cork face rather than dotting several smaller boards along the same stretch of wall.
- One Unbroken Pinning Wall. Running the display across a single surface leaves no frame down the middle for a notice to fall behind, so people scan one face from end to end and a caretaker hangs and levels one board rather than lining up a pair against each other.
- Heals Over Every Pin Hole. Press a pin into the natural cork and the surface takes it cleanly, then closes the hole over once it is pulled, so a face changed day after day stays even and unmarked where a fabric board would gradually show every puncture ever made in it.
- Grips a Pin Along Its Length. Dense cork holds the whole shaft of a pin rather than balancing on its tip, so cards, photos and a heavier laminated sheet all hang straight and stay exactly where they are placed, steady through the knocks of a wall in constant daily use.
- Slim Silver Frames the Cork. Wrapping the warm natural centre in a crisp satin anodised edge, the aluminium frame holds a panel this wide flat and square, its rounded corners safe in a shared room and its low sheen keeping the glare of overhead lighting off the surface.
- Supplied Ready to Mount. Everything needed to fit the board arrives with it, and because the corner fixings tuck away behind snap-on covers, the finished wall shows a clean natural face and a silver edge with no screw heads on view for a maintenance team to fix straight to masonry.
Where This Wide Cork Display Board Comes Into Its Own
| Large Design and Creative Studios | Working walls of mood boards, sketches and reference get pinned, pulled and re-pinned all day in a busy studio, and a surface this wide gives a whole team room to lay a project out in full while the cork heals over each hole rather than filling with the marks live work would leave. |
| School Display Corridors | Long corridor walls in a school carry pupils' work, topic displays and reference across a term, and one wide cork run shows a whole year group's output together, taking the constant pinning and swapping of classroom use without the surface ever looking scarred or tired. |
| Community Centres and Village Halls | Handed to clubs, groups and visitors as a shared notice wall, a board of this width gives every group space to post without a scramble for room, and the self-healing face shrugs off the marks left by dozens of different hands over a busy week. |
| Staff Rooms in Larger Workplaces | Bigger teams fill a staff room wall quickly with rotas, briefings and social notices, and a wide cork surface keeps a full, frequently changed week of information in one warm, readable place that feels less corporate than a coloured board would. |
| Universities and Colleges | Department notice walls in a university post timetables, society flyers and course information that students pin and remove constantly, and a large natural surface absorbs that heavy turnover while keeping an even face that does not show the wear of term after term. |
| Galleries and Heritage Venues | Interpretation, visitor notices and changing information sit comfortably on a warm cork wall in a gallery or heritage venue, the natural surface settling in alongside exhibits and the slim silver frame keeping a large board neat without pulling the eye from the display itself. |
Need Less Width, or a Felt Surface?
If this much wall is more than the space calls for, the same cork comes a size down as a smaller cork noticeboard, and for a colour or a staple-friendly face this size also runs as a grey felt noticeboard. Call 01279 460460 or describe the wall through the contact page and we will help you match surface to size.
The first thing to register about this board is how much cork there is to work with. As the widest in the range it offers a single working surface broad enough for a whole team to pin to at once, which is rather the point, because a notice wall fails the moment people start pulling things down simply to make room. Spread across one continuous face, this week's notices can sit at one end and longer-standing reference at the other without a frame cutting between the two. Few boards offer this much uninterrupted cork to pin across in one place.
A panel this wide needs a frame that keeps it dead flat, and the satin anodised aluminium does exactly that without weighing the cork down. The silver is bonded into the aluminium during anodising rather than sprayed on top, so a corner caught while a large board is carried in will not flake or show bare metal beneath the finish. Its low-sheen satin face earns its place under the strong lighting of a hall or studio, throwing the light wide instead of bouncing a bright patch back across the surface where it would wash out the notices.
What makes cork the right face for a wall worked this hard is its habit of repairing itself. The material is a mass of tiny sealed pockets, and a pin pushed between them is gripped on the way in and released on the way out, the pockets easing back afterwards to hide the mark left behind. Repeated across a term of daily changes, that keeps the surface reading as clean, even cork rather than a grid of old holes. A painted or woven board cannot manage the same trick, which is why a large, heavily pinned wall in any other material tends to look worn long before a cork one of the same age does. On a board this broad the self-healing matters most of all, since a wall pinned by a whole team takes more punctures in a week than a small board sees in a month.
Day to day the board asks for nothing beyond a tub of pins. Because the cork is dense it holds the whole shaft rather than pinching at the point alone, so a postcard, a photograph or a laminated A4 sheet all sit flat and stay where they are put until somebody moves them. Everything comes away cleanly by hand, which keeps a wide, fast-changing wall quick to strip and reset between displays. Fixing the board is just as plain, with four concealed points levelled straight from the supplied kit and their heads hidden under snap caps, so the mounted result is an unbroken cork face from one edge to the other with no metalwork on show.
What Ships with This Board
- 1 x wide natural cork noticeboard, self-healing cork display face set in a satin silver anodised aluminium frame
- 1 x wall fixing kit, corner fixings concealed beneath snap-on covers
Fitting Out a Whole Site?
Covering several rooms or a long corridor? The same satin frame takes a felt face in red, blue, green or grey, and the cork runs in further sizes, ready to leave together on one order. Call 01279 460460 or list what the site needs on the contact page and the team will pull it together.
NBA1218C is an 1800mm x 1200mm natural cork noticeboard with a satin anodised aluminium frame from Displaysense. As the widest cork board in the range, its self-healing surface takes push pins and closes the holes behind them, so a large display can change constantly without marking. Board size 1800mm x 1200mm. Weight 9kg. A satin silver anodised frame with rounded safe corners and concealed corner fixings, supplied with a wall fixing kit and mounting in portrait or landscape. Suited to large design studios, school display corridors, community halls, staff rooms, universities and heritage venues. Also available with a felt surface in red, blue, green or grey at this size, and in other cork sizes from 900mm x 600mm upward. Displaysense, UK display specialist since 1978.
Full technical specification for the 1800mm x 1200mm natural cork noticeboard with its satin anodised aluminium frame. The widest cork board in the range, with a self-healing surface made for push pins, rounded safe corners, concealed wall fixings and a complete fixing kit as standard, mounting in portrait or landscape for a warm, hard-wearing indoor display across large studios, school corridors, halls and universities.
| Specification | Detail | What This Means for You |
|---|---|---|
| Surface | Natural self-healing cork | Pins press in anywhere and the hole closes as each one comes out, so a wide board changed often holds an even face rather than marking across its width over time. |
| Board Size | 1800mm x 1200mm | The widest board in the range gives a continuous working wall that carries a full department or class display in one piece instead of across several boards. |
| Weight | Approximately 9kg | A board this wide is best lifted and positioned by two people, then fixed to a solid wall where it will hang securely through constant daily handling. |
| Frame | Satin anodised aluminium | An anodised edge resists scratches, corrosion and fingerprints and holds a wide panel flat, while the satin finish keeps overhead glare off the cork. |
| Frame Colour | Satin silver | A crisp silver border outlines the warm natural cork and keeps a large board looking modern and tidy in studios, corridors and shared spaces. |
| Orientation | Portrait or landscape | The rectangular board hangs tall or wide, so it fits a corridor run, a desk bank or the space beside a door without changing the display. |
| Display Method | Push pins | Push pins grip the dense cork along their length to hold cards, photos and laminated sheets, then lift out cleanly so a wide display changes in seconds. |
| Corners | Rounded with concealed fixings | Smooth corners and hidden screw heads remove sharp points and visible hardware, suiting corridors, halls and spaces shared with the public. |
| Fixings | Wall fixing kit included | Everything needed to mount the board is in the box, so nothing extra has to be sourced before fitting a board of this size to the wall. |
| Material | Natural cork | A renewable, naturally sourced surface that warms a large wall and resists marking through constant pinning, set in a recyclable aluminium frame. |
| Environment | Indoor use | Made for interior walls in studios, schools and halls, and kept away from damp and weather that would spoil natural cork over time. |
| Returns | 28 days | Send any unused board back within 28 days in its original packaging for a simple, straightforward refund with no fuss. |
Free delivery on every order, no minimum spend
UK Mainland standard delivery included on everything we sell.
Standard
Free
Always included, no minimum order
Express
£9.95
Express options shown at checkout where available
Lead time
2 to 3 days
Working days, UK Mainland
Returns
28 days
Original condition and packaging
Good to know
- Orders before 4pm typically ship the same day
- Tracking email sent on dispatch
- Ground-floor, accessible delivery point
Returns must be unused and in original packaging. Full delivery information · Returns policy
Frequently Asked Questions About This Cork Noticeboard
Q: What is the best large cork noticeboard for a school display corridor?
A: The 1800 x 1200mm cork board is the widest Displaysense makes, which is exactly what a corridor wall wants. A single run carries an entire year group's work side by side, the natural surface absorbs the daily pinning and swapping of a school without scarring, and pins bite securely into the dense cork.
Q: How does the self-healing cork surface actually work?
A: Cork is a honeycomb of millions of air-filled chambers with springy walls. A pin pushes those walls aside going in, and once it leaves they flex back and draw the hole nearly shut. So the surface takes thousands of changes yet still reads as fresh, unbroken cork rather than a sheet of old holes.
Q: Will a cork board this wide stay flat and not bow in the middle?
A: Yes. The satin anodised aluminium frame carries the full 1800mm span and holds the panel true, so it will not sag or belly out along its length. Because the silver finish is bonded into the metal during anodising, a knocked corner stays sound rather than chipping, and the rigid edge keeps a large board square for years.
Q: How are notices fixed to this cork noticeboard?
A: Push pins do all of it. The cork is dense enough to clamp a pin down its whole shaft, not just at the tip, so notes, photos and laminated sheets sit flat and hold their place, then lift away in a moment when the wall changes. No tape, adhesive pads or tools come into it, which keeps a large display fast to rework.
Q: Is this wide cork board suitable for a community hall?
A: Village halls and community centres are an ideal home for it. Passed between clubs, classes and visitors, the wall meets constant pinning from many hands, and cork copes by closing each hole as it is made. Its width also lets several groups post at once without fighting for room.
Q: Can the board be mounted portrait or landscape?
A: Either way works. Being a plain rectangle, the board carries the same display whether it stands upright or lies on its side, so you fit it to the wall rather than the wall to it. Landscape suits a long corridor or a row of desks, while portrait drops neatly into a tall, narrow gap beside a door.
Q: How big is this cork noticeboard and what does it weigh?
A: It measures 1800 x 1200mm and weighs roughly 9kg. That makes it the widest cork board in the range and a genuine whole-wall surface for a corridor, studio or hall. Two people will find it easiest to lift and hold level, after which it fixes to a solid wall and stays put through heavy daily use.
Q: Should I choose this cork board or the grey felt board at this size?
A: Both are 1800 x 1200mm in the same satin aluminium frame, so it comes down to surface. NBA1218C in cork heals over its own pin holes and is the stronger pick for a wall re-pinned daily or a room wanting a warm, natural face. NBA1218G in grey felt adds staple-holding and a neutral colour that recedes into a modern scheme. Go cork for relentless pinning, felt for staples and a set colour.
Q: Why pick cork over a felt surface for a busy wall?
A: The deciding factor is recovery. Cork closes its own pin holes, so the face keeps looking fresh however often the display turns over, while felt slowly records each pin as a small permanent mark. Cork also holds a pin more firmly and feels warmer than a flat woven colour.
Q: Is the cork hard-wearing enough for years of heavy use?
A: Yes, under normal indoor use. The whole purpose of cork is that it is built for repeated pinning, recovering after each one so even a wall reworked daily holds its appearance for years. Kept inside and away from damp, both the cork face and the aluminium frame will last the long term without trouble.
Q: Does this cork noticeboard come with free UK delivery?
A: Yes, and with no minimum order. Every delivery to the UK mainland is free, and anything unused can go back within 28 days for a clean refund. Displaysense has been a UK display specialist since 1978, supplying schools, studios, offices and public venues right across the country.
Q: Can I get this board in other surfaces and sizes?
A: Yes. Keep this 1800 x 1200mm footprint and the same frame is offered with a felt face in red, blue, green or grey, or step the cork down through the smaller sizes from 900 x 600mm upward. Since every board shares the satin aluminium frame, surfaces and sizes can be mixed along a single wall and still look like one set.
Noticeboard Knowledge Hub
A wide cork board earns its keep when the wall is matched to a genuinely busy space and the display is kept current rather than left to clutter. These Displaysense guides cover picking the right board for the room, planning display across studios, schools and offices, and siting notices where people actually stop and read them.
Overview
A Whole Wall of Self-Healing Cork for Constantly Re-Pinned Displays
There is a point where a notice wall stops keeping pace with the people using it, and a board at this scale is the answer to that problem. This is the widest cork board in the range, one natural surface broad enough to carry a whole department's pinned work at once, so nothing has to come down before something new can go up. Because the cork closes over every pin as it is drawn out, even a wall stripped and rebuilt daily keeps a smooth, unpunished face instead of slowly filling with holes. The warm, flecked surface lends a softer, more natural feel to a large wall than paint or fabric manages, and a slim satin silver frame keeps all that width looking sharp rather than sprawling. Best suited for large studios, school display corridors and community halls where a sizeable wall is re-pinned constantly and still has to look cared for.
Why High-Traffic Display Walls Pick This Wide Cork Noticeboard
- The Widest Cork Surface in the Range. Broad enough to span a long wall in one piece, this board pulls a full spread of pinned work into a single block, so a busy studio or hall gathers everything onto one continuous cork face rather than dotting several smaller boards along the same stretch of wall.
- One Unbroken Pinning Wall. Running the display across a single surface leaves no frame down the middle for a notice to fall behind, so people scan one face from end to end and a caretaker hangs and levels one board rather than lining up a pair against each other.
- Heals Over Every Pin Hole. Press a pin into the natural cork and the surface takes it cleanly, then closes the hole over once it is pulled, so a face changed day after day stays even and unmarked where a fabric board would gradually show every puncture ever made in it.
- Grips a Pin Along Its Length. Dense cork holds the whole shaft of a pin rather than balancing on its tip, so cards, photos and a heavier laminated sheet all hang straight and stay exactly where they are placed, steady through the knocks of a wall in constant daily use.
- Slim Silver Frames the Cork. Wrapping the warm natural centre in a crisp satin anodised edge, the aluminium frame holds a panel this wide flat and square, its rounded corners safe in a shared room and its low sheen keeping the glare of overhead lighting off the surface.
- Supplied Ready to Mount. Everything needed to fit the board arrives with it, and because the corner fixings tuck away behind snap-on covers, the finished wall shows a clean natural face and a silver edge with no screw heads on view for a maintenance team to fix straight to masonry.
Where This Wide Cork Display Board Comes Into Its Own
| Large Design and Creative Studios | Working walls of mood boards, sketches and reference get pinned, pulled and re-pinned all day in a busy studio, and a surface this wide gives a whole team room to lay a project out in full while the cork heals over each hole rather than filling with the marks live work would leave. |
| School Display Corridors | Long corridor walls in a school carry pupils' work, topic displays and reference across a term, and one wide cork run shows a whole year group's output together, taking the constant pinning and swapping of classroom use without the surface ever looking scarred or tired. |
| Community Centres and Village Halls | Handed to clubs, groups and visitors as a shared notice wall, a board of this width gives every group space to post without a scramble for room, and the self-healing face shrugs off the marks left by dozens of different hands over a busy week. |
| Staff Rooms in Larger Workplaces | Bigger teams fill a staff room wall quickly with rotas, briefings and social notices, and a wide cork surface keeps a full, frequently changed week of information in one warm, readable place that feels less corporate than a coloured board would. |
| Universities and Colleges | Department notice walls in a university post timetables, society flyers and course information that students pin and remove constantly, and a large natural surface absorbs that heavy turnover while keeping an even face that does not show the wear of term after term. |
| Galleries and Heritage Venues | Interpretation, visitor notices and changing information sit comfortably on a warm cork wall in a gallery or heritage venue, the natural surface settling in alongside exhibits and the slim silver frame keeping a large board neat without pulling the eye from the display itself. |
Need Less Width, or a Felt Surface?
If this much wall is more than the space calls for, the same cork comes a size down as a smaller cork noticeboard, and for a colour or a staple-friendly face this size also runs as a grey felt noticeboard. Call 01279 460460 or describe the wall through the contact page and we will help you match surface to size.
Description
The first thing to register about this board is how much cork there is to work with. As the widest in the range it offers a single working surface broad enough for a whole team to pin to at once, which is rather the point, because a notice wall fails the moment people start pulling things down simply to make room. Spread across one continuous face, this week's notices can sit at one end and longer-standing reference at the other without a frame cutting between the two. Few boards offer this much uninterrupted cork to pin across in one place.
A panel this wide needs a frame that keeps it dead flat, and the satin anodised aluminium does exactly that without weighing the cork down. The silver is bonded into the aluminium during anodising rather than sprayed on top, so a corner caught while a large board is carried in will not flake or show bare metal beneath the finish. Its low-sheen satin face earns its place under the strong lighting of a hall or studio, throwing the light wide instead of bouncing a bright patch back across the surface where it would wash out the notices.
What makes cork the right face for a wall worked this hard is its habit of repairing itself. The material is a mass of tiny sealed pockets, and a pin pushed between them is gripped on the way in and released on the way out, the pockets easing back afterwards to hide the mark left behind. Repeated across a term of daily changes, that keeps the surface reading as clean, even cork rather than a grid of old holes. A painted or woven board cannot manage the same trick, which is why a large, heavily pinned wall in any other material tends to look worn long before a cork one of the same age does. On a board this broad the self-healing matters most of all, since a wall pinned by a whole team takes more punctures in a week than a small board sees in a month.
Day to day the board asks for nothing beyond a tub of pins. Because the cork is dense it holds the whole shaft rather than pinching at the point alone, so a postcard, a photograph or a laminated A4 sheet all sit flat and stay where they are put until somebody moves them. Everything comes away cleanly by hand, which keeps a wide, fast-changing wall quick to strip and reset between displays. Fixing the board is just as plain, with four concealed points levelled straight from the supplied kit and their heads hidden under snap caps, so the mounted result is an unbroken cork face from one edge to the other with no metalwork on show.
What Ships with This Board
- 1 x wide natural cork noticeboard, self-healing cork display face set in a satin silver anodised aluminium frame
- 1 x wall fixing kit, corner fixings concealed beneath snap-on covers
Fitting Out a Whole Site?
Covering several rooms or a long corridor? The same satin frame takes a felt face in red, blue, green or grey, and the cork runs in further sizes, ready to leave together on one order. Call 01279 460460 or list what the site needs on the contact page and the team will pull it together.
NBA1218C is an 1800mm x 1200mm natural cork noticeboard with a satin anodised aluminium frame from Displaysense. As the widest cork board in the range, its self-healing surface takes push pins and closes the holes behind them, so a large display can change constantly without marking. Board size 1800mm x 1200mm. Weight 9kg. A satin silver anodised frame with rounded safe corners and concealed corner fixings, supplied with a wall fixing kit and mounting in portrait or landscape. Suited to large design studios, school display corridors, community halls, staff rooms, universities and heritage venues. Also available with a felt surface in red, blue, green or grey at this size, and in other cork sizes from 900mm x 600mm upward. Displaysense, UK display specialist since 1978.
Specifications
Full technical specification for the 1800mm x 1200mm natural cork noticeboard with its satin anodised aluminium frame. The widest cork board in the range, with a self-healing surface made for push pins, rounded safe corners, concealed wall fixings and a complete fixing kit as standard, mounting in portrait or landscape for a warm, hard-wearing indoor display across large studios, school corridors, halls and universities.
| Specification | Detail | What This Means for You |
|---|---|---|
| Surface | Natural self-healing cork | Pins press in anywhere and the hole closes as each one comes out, so a wide board changed often holds an even face rather than marking across its width over time. |
| Board Size | 1800mm x 1200mm | The widest board in the range gives a continuous working wall that carries a full department or class display in one piece instead of across several boards. |
| Weight | Approximately 9kg | A board this wide is best lifted and positioned by two people, then fixed to a solid wall where it will hang securely through constant daily handling. |
| Frame | Satin anodised aluminium | An anodised edge resists scratches, corrosion and fingerprints and holds a wide panel flat, while the satin finish keeps overhead glare off the cork. |
| Frame Colour | Satin silver | A crisp silver border outlines the warm natural cork and keeps a large board looking modern and tidy in studios, corridors and shared spaces. |
| Orientation | Portrait or landscape | The rectangular board hangs tall or wide, so it fits a corridor run, a desk bank or the space beside a door without changing the display. |
| Display Method | Push pins | Push pins grip the dense cork along their length to hold cards, photos and laminated sheets, then lift out cleanly so a wide display changes in seconds. |
| Corners | Rounded with concealed fixings | Smooth corners and hidden screw heads remove sharp points and visible hardware, suiting corridors, halls and spaces shared with the public. |
| Fixings | Wall fixing kit included | Everything needed to mount the board is in the box, so nothing extra has to be sourced before fitting a board of this size to the wall. |
| Material | Natural cork | A renewable, naturally sourced surface that warms a large wall and resists marking through constant pinning, set in a recyclable aluminium frame. |
| Environment | Indoor use | Made for interior walls in studios, schools and halls, and kept away from damp and weather that would spoil natural cork over time. |
| Returns | 28 days | Send any unused board back within 28 days in its original packaging for a simple, straightforward refund with no fuss. |
Delivery & Returns
Free delivery on every order, no minimum spend
UK Mainland standard delivery included on everything we sell.
Standard
Free
Always included, no minimum order
Express
£9.95
Express options shown at checkout where available
Lead time
2 to 3 days
Working days, UK Mainland
Returns
28 days
Original condition and packaging
Good to know
- Orders before 4pm typically ship the same day
- Tracking email sent on dispatch
- Ground-floor, accessible delivery point
Returns must be unused and in original packaging. Full delivery information · Returns policy
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions About This Cork Noticeboard
Q: What is the best large cork noticeboard for a school display corridor?
A: The 1800 x 1200mm cork board is the widest Displaysense makes, which is exactly what a corridor wall wants. A single run carries an entire year group's work side by side, the natural surface absorbs the daily pinning and swapping of a school without scarring, and pins bite securely into the dense cork.
Q: How does the self-healing cork surface actually work?
A: Cork is a honeycomb of millions of air-filled chambers with springy walls. A pin pushes those walls aside going in, and once it leaves they flex back and draw the hole nearly shut. So the surface takes thousands of changes yet still reads as fresh, unbroken cork rather than a sheet of old holes.
Q: Will a cork board this wide stay flat and not bow in the middle?
A: Yes. The satin anodised aluminium frame carries the full 1800mm span and holds the panel true, so it will not sag or belly out along its length. Because the silver finish is bonded into the metal during anodising, a knocked corner stays sound rather than chipping, and the rigid edge keeps a large board square for years.
Q: How are notices fixed to this cork noticeboard?
A: Push pins do all of it. The cork is dense enough to clamp a pin down its whole shaft, not just at the tip, so notes, photos and laminated sheets sit flat and hold their place, then lift away in a moment when the wall changes. No tape, adhesive pads or tools come into it, which keeps a large display fast to rework.
Q: Is this wide cork board suitable for a community hall?
A: Village halls and community centres are an ideal home for it. Passed between clubs, classes and visitors, the wall meets constant pinning from many hands, and cork copes by closing each hole as it is made. Its width also lets several groups post at once without fighting for room.
Q: Can the board be mounted portrait or landscape?
A: Either way works. Being a plain rectangle, the board carries the same display whether it stands upright or lies on its side, so you fit it to the wall rather than the wall to it. Landscape suits a long corridor or a row of desks, while portrait drops neatly into a tall, narrow gap beside a door.
Q: How big is this cork noticeboard and what does it weigh?
A: It measures 1800 x 1200mm and weighs roughly 9kg. That makes it the widest cork board in the range and a genuine whole-wall surface for a corridor, studio or hall. Two people will find it easiest to lift and hold level, after which it fixes to a solid wall and stays put through heavy daily use.
Q: Should I choose this cork board or the grey felt board at this size?
A: Both are 1800 x 1200mm in the same satin aluminium frame, so it comes down to surface. NBA1218C in cork heals over its own pin holes and is the stronger pick for a wall re-pinned daily or a room wanting a warm, natural face. NBA1218G in grey felt adds staple-holding and a neutral colour that recedes into a modern scheme. Go cork for relentless pinning, felt for staples and a set colour.
Q: Why pick cork over a felt surface for a busy wall?
A: The deciding factor is recovery. Cork closes its own pin holes, so the face keeps looking fresh however often the display turns over, while felt slowly records each pin as a small permanent mark. Cork also holds a pin more firmly and feels warmer than a flat woven colour.
Q: Is the cork hard-wearing enough for years of heavy use?
A: Yes, under normal indoor use. The whole purpose of cork is that it is built for repeated pinning, recovering after each one so even a wall reworked daily holds its appearance for years. Kept inside and away from damp, both the cork face and the aluminium frame will last the long term without trouble.
Q: Does this cork noticeboard come with free UK delivery?
A: Yes, and with no minimum order. Every delivery to the UK mainland is free, and anything unused can go back within 28 days for a clean refund. Displaysense has been a UK display specialist since 1978, supplying schools, studios, offices and public venues right across the country.
Q: Can I get this board in other surfaces and sizes?
A: Yes. Keep this 1800 x 1200mm footprint and the same frame is offered with a felt face in red, blue, green or grey, or step the cork down through the smaller sizes from 900 x 600mm upward. Since every board shares the satin aluminium frame, surfaces and sizes can be mixed along a single wall and still look like one set.
Knowledge Hub
Noticeboard Knowledge Hub
A wide cork board earns its keep when the wall is matched to a genuinely busy space and the display is kept current rather than left to clutter. These Displaysense guides cover picking the right board for the room, planning display across studios, schools and offices, and siting notices where people actually stop and read them.
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Overview
Description
Specifications
Delivery & Returns
FAQs
Knowledge Hub
A Whole Wall of Self-Healing Cork for Constantly Re-Pinned Displays
There is a point where a notice wall stops keeping pace with the people using it, and a board at this scale is the answer to that problem. This is the widest cork board in the range, one natural surface broad enough to carry a whole department's pinned work at once, so nothing has to come down before something new can go up. Because the cork closes over every pin as it is drawn out, even a wall stripped and rebuilt daily keeps a smooth, unpunished face instead of slowly filling with holes. The warm, flecked surface lends a softer, more natural feel to a large wall than paint or fabric manages, and a slim satin silver frame keeps all that width looking sharp rather than sprawling. Best suited for large studios, school display corridors and community halls where a sizeable wall is re-pinned constantly and still has to look cared for.
Why High-Traffic Display Walls Pick This Wide Cork Noticeboard
- The Widest Cork Surface in the Range. Broad enough to span a long wall in one piece, this board pulls a full spread of pinned work into a single block, so a busy studio or hall gathers everything onto one continuous cork face rather than dotting several smaller boards along the same stretch of wall.
- One Unbroken Pinning Wall. Running the display across a single surface leaves no frame down the middle for a notice to fall behind, so people scan one face from end to end and a caretaker hangs and levels one board rather than lining up a pair against each other.
- Heals Over Every Pin Hole. Press a pin into the natural cork and the surface takes it cleanly, then closes the hole over once it is pulled, so a face changed day after day stays even and unmarked where a fabric board would gradually show every puncture ever made in it.
- Grips a Pin Along Its Length. Dense cork holds the whole shaft of a pin rather than balancing on its tip, so cards, photos and a heavier laminated sheet all hang straight and stay exactly where they are placed, steady through the knocks of a wall in constant daily use.
- Slim Silver Frames the Cork. Wrapping the warm natural centre in a crisp satin anodised edge, the aluminium frame holds a panel this wide flat and square, its rounded corners safe in a shared room and its low sheen keeping the glare of overhead lighting off the surface.
- Supplied Ready to Mount. Everything needed to fit the board arrives with it, and because the corner fixings tuck away behind snap-on covers, the finished wall shows a clean natural face and a silver edge with no screw heads on view for a maintenance team to fix straight to masonry.
Where This Wide Cork Display Board Comes Into Its Own
| Large Design and Creative Studios | Working walls of mood boards, sketches and reference get pinned, pulled and re-pinned all day in a busy studio, and a surface this wide gives a whole team room to lay a project out in full while the cork heals over each hole rather than filling with the marks live work would leave. |
| School Display Corridors | Long corridor walls in a school carry pupils' work, topic displays and reference across a term, and one wide cork run shows a whole year group's output together, taking the constant pinning and swapping of classroom use without the surface ever looking scarred or tired. |
| Community Centres and Village Halls | Handed to clubs, groups and visitors as a shared notice wall, a board of this width gives every group space to post without a scramble for room, and the self-healing face shrugs off the marks left by dozens of different hands over a busy week. |
| Staff Rooms in Larger Workplaces | Bigger teams fill a staff room wall quickly with rotas, briefings and social notices, and a wide cork surface keeps a full, frequently changed week of information in one warm, readable place that feels less corporate than a coloured board would. |
| Universities and Colleges | Department notice walls in a university post timetables, society flyers and course information that students pin and remove constantly, and a large natural surface absorbs that heavy turnover while keeping an even face that does not show the wear of term after term. |
| Galleries and Heritage Venues | Interpretation, visitor notices and changing information sit comfortably on a warm cork wall in a gallery or heritage venue, the natural surface settling in alongside exhibits and the slim silver frame keeping a large board neat without pulling the eye from the display itself. |
Need Less Width, or a Felt Surface?
If this much wall is more than the space calls for, the same cork comes a size down as a smaller cork noticeboard, and for a colour or a staple-friendly face this size also runs as a grey felt noticeboard. Call 01279 460460 or describe the wall through the contact page and we will help you match surface to size.
The first thing to register about this board is how much cork there is to work with. As the widest in the range it offers a single working surface broad enough for a whole team to pin to at once, which is rather the point, because a notice wall fails the moment people start pulling things down simply to make room. Spread across one continuous face, this week's notices can sit at one end and longer-standing reference at the other without a frame cutting between the two. Few boards offer this much uninterrupted cork to pin across in one place.
A panel this wide needs a frame that keeps it dead flat, and the satin anodised aluminium does exactly that without weighing the cork down. The silver is bonded into the aluminium during anodising rather than sprayed on top, so a corner caught while a large board is carried in will not flake or show bare metal beneath the finish. Its low-sheen satin face earns its place under the strong lighting of a hall or studio, throwing the light wide instead of bouncing a bright patch back across the surface where it would wash out the notices.
What makes cork the right face for a wall worked this hard is its habit of repairing itself. The material is a mass of tiny sealed pockets, and a pin pushed between them is gripped on the way in and released on the way out, the pockets easing back afterwards to hide the mark left behind. Repeated across a term of daily changes, that keeps the surface reading as clean, even cork rather than a grid of old holes. A painted or woven board cannot manage the same trick, which is why a large, heavily pinned wall in any other material tends to look worn long before a cork one of the same age does. On a board this broad the self-healing matters most of all, since a wall pinned by a whole team takes more punctures in a week than a small board sees in a month.
Day to day the board asks for nothing beyond a tub of pins. Because the cork is dense it holds the whole shaft rather than pinching at the point alone, so a postcard, a photograph or a laminated A4 sheet all sit flat and stay where they are put until somebody moves them. Everything comes away cleanly by hand, which keeps a wide, fast-changing wall quick to strip and reset between displays. Fixing the board is just as plain, with four concealed points levelled straight from the supplied kit and their heads hidden under snap caps, so the mounted result is an unbroken cork face from one edge to the other with no metalwork on show.
What Ships with This Board
- 1 x wide natural cork noticeboard, self-healing cork display face set in a satin silver anodised aluminium frame
- 1 x wall fixing kit, corner fixings concealed beneath snap-on covers
Fitting Out a Whole Site?
Covering several rooms or a long corridor? The same satin frame takes a felt face in red, blue, green or grey, and the cork runs in further sizes, ready to leave together on one order. Call 01279 460460 or list what the site needs on the contact page and the team will pull it together.
NBA1218C is an 1800mm x 1200mm natural cork noticeboard with a satin anodised aluminium frame from Displaysense. As the widest cork board in the range, its self-healing surface takes push pins and closes the holes behind them, so a large display can change constantly without marking. Board size 1800mm x 1200mm. Weight 9kg. A satin silver anodised frame with rounded safe corners and concealed corner fixings, supplied with a wall fixing kit and mounting in portrait or landscape. Suited to large design studios, school display corridors, community halls, staff rooms, universities and heritage venues. Also available with a felt surface in red, blue, green or grey at this size, and in other cork sizes from 900mm x 600mm upward. Displaysense, UK display specialist since 1978.
Full technical specification for the 1800mm x 1200mm natural cork noticeboard with its satin anodised aluminium frame. The widest cork board in the range, with a self-healing surface made for push pins, rounded safe corners, concealed wall fixings and a complete fixing kit as standard, mounting in portrait or landscape for a warm, hard-wearing indoor display across large studios, school corridors, halls and universities.
| Specification | Detail | What This Means for You |
|---|---|---|
| Surface | Natural self-healing cork | Pins press in anywhere and the hole closes as each one comes out, so a wide board changed often holds an even face rather than marking across its width over time. |
| Board Size | 1800mm x 1200mm | The widest board in the range gives a continuous working wall that carries a full department or class display in one piece instead of across several boards. |
| Weight | Approximately 9kg | A board this wide is best lifted and positioned by two people, then fixed to a solid wall where it will hang securely through constant daily handling. |
| Frame | Satin anodised aluminium | An anodised edge resists scratches, corrosion and fingerprints and holds a wide panel flat, while the satin finish keeps overhead glare off the cork. |
| Frame Colour | Satin silver | A crisp silver border outlines the warm natural cork and keeps a large board looking modern and tidy in studios, corridors and shared spaces. |
| Orientation | Portrait or landscape | The rectangular board hangs tall or wide, so it fits a corridor run, a desk bank or the space beside a door without changing the display. |
| Display Method | Push pins | Push pins grip the dense cork along their length to hold cards, photos and laminated sheets, then lift out cleanly so a wide display changes in seconds. |
| Corners | Rounded with concealed fixings | Smooth corners and hidden screw heads remove sharp points and visible hardware, suiting corridors, halls and spaces shared with the public. |
| Fixings | Wall fixing kit included | Everything needed to mount the board is in the box, so nothing extra has to be sourced before fitting a board of this size to the wall. |
| Material | Natural cork | A renewable, naturally sourced surface that warms a large wall and resists marking through constant pinning, set in a recyclable aluminium frame. |
| Environment | Indoor use | Made for interior walls in studios, schools and halls, and kept away from damp and weather that would spoil natural cork over time. |
| Returns | 28 days | Send any unused board back within 28 days in its original packaging for a simple, straightforward refund with no fuss. |
Free delivery on every order, no minimum spend
UK Mainland standard delivery included on everything we sell.
Standard
Free
Always included, no minimum order
Express
£9.95
Express options shown at checkout where available
Lead time
2 to 3 days
Working days, UK Mainland
Returns
28 days
Original condition and packaging
Good to know
- Orders before 4pm typically ship the same day
- Tracking email sent on dispatch
- Ground-floor, accessible delivery point
Returns must be unused and in original packaging. Full delivery information · Returns policy
Frequently Asked Questions About This Cork Noticeboard
Q: What is the best large cork noticeboard for a school display corridor?
A: The 1800 x 1200mm cork board is the widest Displaysense makes, which is exactly what a corridor wall wants. A single run carries an entire year group's work side by side, the natural surface absorbs the daily pinning and swapping of a school without scarring, and pins bite securely into the dense cork.
Q: How does the self-healing cork surface actually work?
A: Cork is a honeycomb of millions of air-filled chambers with springy walls. A pin pushes those walls aside going in, and once it leaves they flex back and draw the hole nearly shut. So the surface takes thousands of changes yet still reads as fresh, unbroken cork rather than a sheet of old holes.
Q: Will a cork board this wide stay flat and not bow in the middle?
A: Yes. The satin anodised aluminium frame carries the full 1800mm span and holds the panel true, so it will not sag or belly out along its length. Because the silver finish is bonded into the metal during anodising, a knocked corner stays sound rather than chipping, and the rigid edge keeps a large board square for years.
Q: How are notices fixed to this cork noticeboard?
A: Push pins do all of it. The cork is dense enough to clamp a pin down its whole shaft, not just at the tip, so notes, photos and laminated sheets sit flat and hold their place, then lift away in a moment when the wall changes. No tape, adhesive pads or tools come into it, which keeps a large display fast to rework.
Q: Is this wide cork board suitable for a community hall?
A: Village halls and community centres are an ideal home for it. Passed between clubs, classes and visitors, the wall meets constant pinning from many hands, and cork copes by closing each hole as it is made. Its width also lets several groups post at once without fighting for room.
Q: Can the board be mounted portrait or landscape?
A: Either way works. Being a plain rectangle, the board carries the same display whether it stands upright or lies on its side, so you fit it to the wall rather than the wall to it. Landscape suits a long corridor or a row of desks, while portrait drops neatly into a tall, narrow gap beside a door.
Q: How big is this cork noticeboard and what does it weigh?
A: It measures 1800 x 1200mm and weighs roughly 9kg. That makes it the widest cork board in the range and a genuine whole-wall surface for a corridor, studio or hall. Two people will find it easiest to lift and hold level, after which it fixes to a solid wall and stays put through heavy daily use.
Q: Should I choose this cork board or the grey felt board at this size?
A: Both are 1800 x 1200mm in the same satin aluminium frame, so it comes down to surface. NBA1218C in cork heals over its own pin holes and is the stronger pick for a wall re-pinned daily or a room wanting a warm, natural face. NBA1218G in grey felt adds staple-holding and a neutral colour that recedes into a modern scheme. Go cork for relentless pinning, felt for staples and a set colour.
Q: Why pick cork over a felt surface for a busy wall?
A: The deciding factor is recovery. Cork closes its own pin holes, so the face keeps looking fresh however often the display turns over, while felt slowly records each pin as a small permanent mark. Cork also holds a pin more firmly and feels warmer than a flat woven colour.
Q: Is the cork hard-wearing enough for years of heavy use?
A: Yes, under normal indoor use. The whole purpose of cork is that it is built for repeated pinning, recovering after each one so even a wall reworked daily holds its appearance for years. Kept inside and away from damp, both the cork face and the aluminium frame will last the long term without trouble.
Q: Does this cork noticeboard come with free UK delivery?
A: Yes, and with no minimum order. Every delivery to the UK mainland is free, and anything unused can go back within 28 days for a clean refund. Displaysense has been a UK display specialist since 1978, supplying schools, studios, offices and public venues right across the country.
Q: Can I get this board in other surfaces and sizes?
A: Yes. Keep this 1800 x 1200mm footprint and the same frame is offered with a felt face in red, blue, green or grey, or step the cork down through the smaller sizes from 900 x 600mm upward. Since every board shares the satin aluminium frame, surfaces and sizes can be mixed along a single wall and still look like one set.
Noticeboard Knowledge Hub
A wide cork board earns its keep when the wall is matched to a genuinely busy space and the display is kept current rather than left to clutter. These Displaysense guides cover picking the right board for the room, planning display across studios, schools and offices, and siting notices where people actually stop and read them.
Overview
A Whole Wall of Self-Healing Cork for Constantly Re-Pinned Displays
There is a point where a notice wall stops keeping pace with the people using it, and a board at this scale is the answer to that problem. This is the widest cork board in the range, one natural surface broad enough to carry a whole department's pinned work at once, so nothing has to come down before something new can go up. Because the cork closes over every pin as it is drawn out, even a wall stripped and rebuilt daily keeps a smooth, unpunished face instead of slowly filling with holes. The warm, flecked surface lends a softer, more natural feel to a large wall than paint or fabric manages, and a slim satin silver frame keeps all that width looking sharp rather than sprawling. Best suited for large studios, school display corridors and community halls where a sizeable wall is re-pinned constantly and still has to look cared for.
Why High-Traffic Display Walls Pick This Wide Cork Noticeboard
- The Widest Cork Surface in the Range. Broad enough to span a long wall in one piece, this board pulls a full spread of pinned work into a single block, so a busy studio or hall gathers everything onto one continuous cork face rather than dotting several smaller boards along the same stretch of wall.
- One Unbroken Pinning Wall. Running the display across a single surface leaves no frame down the middle for a notice to fall behind, so people scan one face from end to end and a caretaker hangs and levels one board rather than lining up a pair against each other.
- Heals Over Every Pin Hole. Press a pin into the natural cork and the surface takes it cleanly, then closes the hole over once it is pulled, so a face changed day after day stays even and unmarked where a fabric board would gradually show every puncture ever made in it.
- Grips a Pin Along Its Length. Dense cork holds the whole shaft of a pin rather than balancing on its tip, so cards, photos and a heavier laminated sheet all hang straight and stay exactly where they are placed, steady through the knocks of a wall in constant daily use.
- Slim Silver Frames the Cork. Wrapping the warm natural centre in a crisp satin anodised edge, the aluminium frame holds a panel this wide flat and square, its rounded corners safe in a shared room and its low sheen keeping the glare of overhead lighting off the surface.
- Supplied Ready to Mount. Everything needed to fit the board arrives with it, and because the corner fixings tuck away behind snap-on covers, the finished wall shows a clean natural face and a silver edge with no screw heads on view for a maintenance team to fix straight to masonry.
Where This Wide Cork Display Board Comes Into Its Own
| Large Design and Creative Studios | Working walls of mood boards, sketches and reference get pinned, pulled and re-pinned all day in a busy studio, and a surface this wide gives a whole team room to lay a project out in full while the cork heals over each hole rather than filling with the marks live work would leave. |
| School Display Corridors | Long corridor walls in a school carry pupils' work, topic displays and reference across a term, and one wide cork run shows a whole year group's output together, taking the constant pinning and swapping of classroom use without the surface ever looking scarred or tired. |
| Community Centres and Village Halls | Handed to clubs, groups and visitors as a shared notice wall, a board of this width gives every group space to post without a scramble for room, and the self-healing face shrugs off the marks left by dozens of different hands over a busy week. |
| Staff Rooms in Larger Workplaces | Bigger teams fill a staff room wall quickly with rotas, briefings and social notices, and a wide cork surface keeps a full, frequently changed week of information in one warm, readable place that feels less corporate than a coloured board would. |
| Universities and Colleges | Department notice walls in a university post timetables, society flyers and course information that students pin and remove constantly, and a large natural surface absorbs that heavy turnover while keeping an even face that does not show the wear of term after term. |
| Galleries and Heritage Venues | Interpretation, visitor notices and changing information sit comfortably on a warm cork wall in a gallery or heritage venue, the natural surface settling in alongside exhibits and the slim silver frame keeping a large board neat without pulling the eye from the display itself. |
Need Less Width, or a Felt Surface?
If this much wall is more than the space calls for, the same cork comes a size down as a smaller cork noticeboard, and for a colour or a staple-friendly face this size also runs as a grey felt noticeboard. Call 01279 460460 or describe the wall through the contact page and we will help you match surface to size.
Description
The first thing to register about this board is how much cork there is to work with. As the widest in the range it offers a single working surface broad enough for a whole team to pin to at once, which is rather the point, because a notice wall fails the moment people start pulling things down simply to make room. Spread across one continuous face, this week's notices can sit at one end and longer-standing reference at the other without a frame cutting between the two. Few boards offer this much uninterrupted cork to pin across in one place.
A panel this wide needs a frame that keeps it dead flat, and the satin anodised aluminium does exactly that without weighing the cork down. The silver is bonded into the aluminium during anodising rather than sprayed on top, so a corner caught while a large board is carried in will not flake or show bare metal beneath the finish. Its low-sheen satin face earns its place under the strong lighting of a hall or studio, throwing the light wide instead of bouncing a bright patch back across the surface where it would wash out the notices.
What makes cork the right face for a wall worked this hard is its habit of repairing itself. The material is a mass of tiny sealed pockets, and a pin pushed between them is gripped on the way in and released on the way out, the pockets easing back afterwards to hide the mark left behind. Repeated across a term of daily changes, that keeps the surface reading as clean, even cork rather than a grid of old holes. A painted or woven board cannot manage the same trick, which is why a large, heavily pinned wall in any other material tends to look worn long before a cork one of the same age does. On a board this broad the self-healing matters most of all, since a wall pinned by a whole team takes more punctures in a week than a small board sees in a month.
Day to day the board asks for nothing beyond a tub of pins. Because the cork is dense it holds the whole shaft rather than pinching at the point alone, so a postcard, a photograph or a laminated A4 sheet all sit flat and stay where they are put until somebody moves them. Everything comes away cleanly by hand, which keeps a wide, fast-changing wall quick to strip and reset between displays. Fixing the board is just as plain, with four concealed points levelled straight from the supplied kit and their heads hidden under snap caps, so the mounted result is an unbroken cork face from one edge to the other with no metalwork on show.
What Ships with This Board
- 1 x wide natural cork noticeboard, self-healing cork display face set in a satin silver anodised aluminium frame
- 1 x wall fixing kit, corner fixings concealed beneath snap-on covers
Fitting Out a Whole Site?
Covering several rooms or a long corridor? The same satin frame takes a felt face in red, blue, green or grey, and the cork runs in further sizes, ready to leave together on one order. Call 01279 460460 or list what the site needs on the contact page and the team will pull it together.
NBA1218C is an 1800mm x 1200mm natural cork noticeboard with a satin anodised aluminium frame from Displaysense. As the widest cork board in the range, its self-healing surface takes push pins and closes the holes behind them, so a large display can change constantly without marking. Board size 1800mm x 1200mm. Weight 9kg. A satin silver anodised frame with rounded safe corners and concealed corner fixings, supplied with a wall fixing kit and mounting in portrait or landscape. Suited to large design studios, school display corridors, community halls, staff rooms, universities and heritage venues. Also available with a felt surface in red, blue, green or grey at this size, and in other cork sizes from 900mm x 600mm upward. Displaysense, UK display specialist since 1978.
Specifications
Full technical specification for the 1800mm x 1200mm natural cork noticeboard with its satin anodised aluminium frame. The widest cork board in the range, with a self-healing surface made for push pins, rounded safe corners, concealed wall fixings and a complete fixing kit as standard, mounting in portrait or landscape for a warm, hard-wearing indoor display across large studios, school corridors, halls and universities.
| Specification | Detail | What This Means for You |
|---|---|---|
| Surface | Natural self-healing cork | Pins press in anywhere and the hole closes as each one comes out, so a wide board changed often holds an even face rather than marking across its width over time. |
| Board Size | 1800mm x 1200mm | The widest board in the range gives a continuous working wall that carries a full department or class display in one piece instead of across several boards. |
| Weight | Approximately 9kg | A board this wide is best lifted and positioned by two people, then fixed to a solid wall where it will hang securely through constant daily handling. |
| Frame | Satin anodised aluminium | An anodised edge resists scratches, corrosion and fingerprints and holds a wide panel flat, while the satin finish keeps overhead glare off the cork. |
| Frame Colour | Satin silver | A crisp silver border outlines the warm natural cork and keeps a large board looking modern and tidy in studios, corridors and shared spaces. |
| Orientation | Portrait or landscape | The rectangular board hangs tall or wide, so it fits a corridor run, a desk bank or the space beside a door without changing the display. |
| Display Method | Push pins | Push pins grip the dense cork along their length to hold cards, photos and laminated sheets, then lift out cleanly so a wide display changes in seconds. |
| Corners | Rounded with concealed fixings | Smooth corners and hidden screw heads remove sharp points and visible hardware, suiting corridors, halls and spaces shared with the public. |
| Fixings | Wall fixing kit included | Everything needed to mount the board is in the box, so nothing extra has to be sourced before fitting a board of this size to the wall. |
| Material | Natural cork | A renewable, naturally sourced surface that warms a large wall and resists marking through constant pinning, set in a recyclable aluminium frame. |
| Environment | Indoor use | Made for interior walls in studios, schools and halls, and kept away from damp and weather that would spoil natural cork over time. |
| Returns | 28 days | Send any unused board back within 28 days in its original packaging for a simple, straightforward refund with no fuss. |
Delivery & Returns
Free delivery on every order, no minimum spend
UK Mainland standard delivery included on everything we sell.
Standard
Free
Always included, no minimum order
Express
£9.95
Express options shown at checkout where available
Lead time
2 to 3 days
Working days, UK Mainland
Returns
28 days
Original condition and packaging
Good to know
- Orders before 4pm typically ship the same day
- Tracking email sent on dispatch
- Ground-floor, accessible delivery point
Returns must be unused and in original packaging. Full delivery information · Returns policy
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions About This Cork Noticeboard
Q: What is the best large cork noticeboard for a school display corridor?
A: The 1800 x 1200mm cork board is the widest Displaysense makes, which is exactly what a corridor wall wants. A single run carries an entire year group's work side by side, the natural surface absorbs the daily pinning and swapping of a school without scarring, and pins bite securely into the dense cork.
Q: How does the self-healing cork surface actually work?
A: Cork is a honeycomb of millions of air-filled chambers with springy walls. A pin pushes those walls aside going in, and once it leaves they flex back and draw the hole nearly shut. So the surface takes thousands of changes yet still reads as fresh, unbroken cork rather than a sheet of old holes.
Q: Will a cork board this wide stay flat and not bow in the middle?
A: Yes. The satin anodised aluminium frame carries the full 1800mm span and holds the panel true, so it will not sag or belly out along its length. Because the silver finish is bonded into the metal during anodising, a knocked corner stays sound rather than chipping, and the rigid edge keeps a large board square for years.
Q: How are notices fixed to this cork noticeboard?
A: Push pins do all of it. The cork is dense enough to clamp a pin down its whole shaft, not just at the tip, so notes, photos and laminated sheets sit flat and hold their place, then lift away in a moment when the wall changes. No tape, adhesive pads or tools come into it, which keeps a large display fast to rework.
Q: Is this wide cork board suitable for a community hall?
A: Village halls and community centres are an ideal home for it. Passed between clubs, classes and visitors, the wall meets constant pinning from many hands, and cork copes by closing each hole as it is made. Its width also lets several groups post at once without fighting for room.
Q: Can the board be mounted portrait or landscape?
A: Either way works. Being a plain rectangle, the board carries the same display whether it stands upright or lies on its side, so you fit it to the wall rather than the wall to it. Landscape suits a long corridor or a row of desks, while portrait drops neatly into a tall, narrow gap beside a door.
Q: How big is this cork noticeboard and what does it weigh?
A: It measures 1800 x 1200mm and weighs roughly 9kg. That makes it the widest cork board in the range and a genuine whole-wall surface for a corridor, studio or hall. Two people will find it easiest to lift and hold level, after which it fixes to a solid wall and stays put through heavy daily use.
Q: Should I choose this cork board or the grey felt board at this size?
A: Both are 1800 x 1200mm in the same satin aluminium frame, so it comes down to surface. NBA1218C in cork heals over its own pin holes and is the stronger pick for a wall re-pinned daily or a room wanting a warm, natural face. NBA1218G in grey felt adds staple-holding and a neutral colour that recedes into a modern scheme. Go cork for relentless pinning, felt for staples and a set colour.
Q: Why pick cork over a felt surface for a busy wall?
A: The deciding factor is recovery. Cork closes its own pin holes, so the face keeps looking fresh however often the display turns over, while felt slowly records each pin as a small permanent mark. Cork also holds a pin more firmly and feels warmer than a flat woven colour.
Q: Is the cork hard-wearing enough for years of heavy use?
A: Yes, under normal indoor use. The whole purpose of cork is that it is built for repeated pinning, recovering after each one so even a wall reworked daily holds its appearance for years. Kept inside and away from damp, both the cork face and the aluminium frame will last the long term without trouble.
Q: Does this cork noticeboard come with free UK delivery?
A: Yes, and with no minimum order. Every delivery to the UK mainland is free, and anything unused can go back within 28 days for a clean refund. Displaysense has been a UK display specialist since 1978, supplying schools, studios, offices and public venues right across the country.
Q: Can I get this board in other surfaces and sizes?
A: Yes. Keep this 1800 x 1200mm footprint and the same frame is offered with a felt face in red, blue, green or grey, or step the cork down through the smaller sizes from 900 x 600mm upward. Since every board shares the satin aluminium frame, surfaces and sizes can be mixed along a single wall and still look like one set.
Knowledge Hub
Noticeboard Knowledge Hub
A wide cork board earns its keep when the wall is matched to a genuinely busy space and the display is kept current rather than left to clutter. These Displaysense guides cover picking the right board for the room, planning display across studios, schools and offices, and siting notices where people actually stop and read them.
