David Hornstein first used the 100 percent waterproof, high-density urethane board called Sign Foam3 for a renovation project on a Victorian home that required him to match existing decorative porch brackets. He wanted to find a cost-effective way to produce 16 brackets, and found Sign Foam3. “I like Sign Foam because it has unique properties that enable me to design any type of exterior ornament I can imagine.”
Sign Foam3 comes in sheets in three different densities, is chemically resistant, and carries a 10-year warranty. Also, the material will not warp, split, crack, or rot, and is unaffected by temperature, according to the maker. “The real benefit is that the brackets will look exactly the same 20 years from now,” says Hornstein, “where the wood may have rotted or delaminated by then, and would certainly need to have been repainted a number of times.”
Sign Foam3 is “lightweight yet dense, routs very crisply, paints beautifully, and is completely inert (no seasonal expansion or contraction) and waterproof,” Hornstein says.
Sign Arts Products. 800.338.4030. www.signfoam.com.Circle 418.
