Tiled Murals from 4ft by 6ft. panels

We do a lot of OEM printing for companies who do dry erase, but not custom printed dry erase. One of our good accounts brought us a very challenging job in Humble, TX. This was a new elementary school. The architect had designed hallways with cladded wall panels that were to be both decorative, magnetic, and dry erase. The typical panel was 48"x 72"high.

There were two types of imaging. One was oriented to mathematics with a number of different types of math exercise modules. The typically were 3 to 6 panels wide (24 ft.), and there were 6 of these walls.
This is an example of a "Math" wall. Magnetic, printed dry erase - pretty slick and the installer did a first class job.

Phase 2 came in a couple months later, and it was a completely different idea. It was a series of very large landscape images of different types of environments. There were mountain ranges covered with snow, jungle panoramas, deserts complete with tablerocks and massive buttes and dense forest scenes. The images were high resolution and some of these walls were as long as 34 feet. This is an examples:

All of the panels were custom printed steel panels laminated to 1/4" thick hardboard. Each panel was very carefully indexed to make sure that the images would line up smoothly panel to panel. A dead level base was provided on the wall and the panels were set with a "J" molding on the perimeters and clear, plastic "H" moldings panel to panel. Construction adhesive was used in the field of the panels and the contractor braced the panel against the wall until the adhesive was set.

Click this link and see all the photos of this job. http://s1213.photobucket.com/albums/cc471/digistone/School%20in%20Humble/

New website - www.murerase.com

We've got a new website. I haven't done a blog for awhile as we were concentrating on the new website and some new materials that we want to introduce. Please take a look at www.murerase.com. We think we've made changes that will enable you to get around and find what you are looking for much easier. In addition if you click on the icons in each of the categories, you'll find a lot more examples of what we can do.

Don’t Ruin Your Whiteboards !!!!!!!!!

We have dry erase boards in hospitals all over the country for over 8 years. They are performing well with a few exceptions. So far, all but one exception has been due to the finish being ruined through the use of abrasive cleaners or pads OR chemical reagents NOT suitable for dry erase finishes.

These are the materials approved to erase and to clean Murerase whiteboards

We can supply all of these products

or you can get the alcohol and

alcohol wipes in an drugstore.

Cleaners shouldn’t be required until the ink has been on the board for a long time. Use a clean eraser or a soft cloth. If you erase dry erase ink before it has dried it will always smear.

Different pens are easier or more difficult to erase. Low odor pens are harder to erase. Permanent markers don’t erase at all, and must be removed with an approved cleaner shown above. We can supply non-low odor pens and they can be purchased from Staples, Office Depot and other office supply outlets. PLEASE don’t use Sharpies or other permanent markers.

Use these! Avoid these. Don't ever use these!

These materials should NEVER be used to clean dry erase boards

Scouring Pads Abrasive Cleaners Disinfectant Wipes

For more information ask us for a summary of our test reports at www.murerase.com

Murerase now has a GSA Schedule!

OK, what's a GSA anyhow? GSA stands for General Services Administration. It is the arm of the federal government that does purchasing for over 30,000 buyers within the federal government. All of the products that the fed purchases (from bug spray to space ships) are listed within the GSA Schedule. A buyer has only to search for a product and all products that are listed show up. The easiest website to do a search on is www.gsaadvantage.gov.

Anyone can go to www.gsaadvantage.gov and do a search to find the companies and products on the GSA schedule. Search for "printed dry erase boards" and our Murerase products will appear. Search for the "Special Item Number" (SIN 711 20) that we fit within and Digital Designed Solutions will be listed. Click on our company and the products that we have included in the Schedule will appear.

Finally, you can search on our contract numbers that are under the GSA logo at the top of the blog.

The process required to be on the GSA Schedule is not a simple or quick one. Any product and company have to meet many requirements in order to be listed. We are proud to have obtained our listing in the Schedule, and hope that we can do more work with the VA and military hospitals in addition to other branches of the federal government.

New Specification for Printed Dry Erase Boards

Well over 90% of our business has been for customers with existing facilities. We did a job toward the end of last year for the Mt.Carmel Regional Medical Center in Pittsburg, KS that was a new construction project. You can see more information about this job at Mt.Carmel. The architect for this project liked our printed dry erase boards and asked for a specification. We had not written a spec for printed dry erase boards, but we did it for this architect, and have actually found that architects designing new hospitals want to include the patient information signs in the contract documents.

With all that said, you can get this spec at Printed Dry Erase Specification. Just look for the list of .pdf files available for download and get the specification.

We encourage feedback both on the spec itself and whether hospital dry erase boards really should be in the contract documents for new construction.

Trade Show Schedule for Murerase Custom Dry Erase

We are going to two trade shows this year. Both shows are to promote Murerase custom printed dry erase boards to the health care industry.

The first show is April 9th to the 13th, and is the American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE). The show is in Indianapolis, IN. We will be exhibiting in booth #509, and look forward to meeting many of our customers and potential customers. You can get information about the show at the AONE website, http://www.aone.org/.

We have learned that the executive nurses are the key decision makers who decide on patient information boards and tracking boards throughout the hospitals. Most of the boards that we make for hospitals are magnetic dry erase boards. They are warrantied for 5 years.

Take a look at our latest boards for medical facilities at www.murerase.com/med_main.html. We have recently added a number of new jobs in our gallery in this section.

The other show that we're going to is the Healthcare Facilities Symposium & Expo. It will take place at the Navy Pier in Chicago. Show dates are September 14-16. We will be exhibiting in booth #415 at this show. This is a show for architects, administrators and others involved in the new construction and renovation of healthcare facilities. We will be very interested to find out if dry boards for patient rooms can or are part of the new construction specifications and contract. We are partnering in this exhibit with Fry Intregral and their Graph wall system. We have recently completed two hospitals with Fry that involved both graphic and dry erase boards.

See additions to our website that show the jobs at Oakbrooke CHKD and Mt. Carmel SDU unit. They are both shown on http://www.digistone.com/ and on our page in the http://www.arcat.com/ catalog.

Take a look at our revised website - www.murerase.com

We depend on our website to present our product, and we believe that it's necessary to update and improve it regularly. We are uploading a revised website today at http://www.murerase.com/ and invite you to take a look.



We have a growing business doing whiteboards for both sports and military applications. The sports boards are primarily for coaches, trainers, and for tracking tournaments. We do all kinds of military boards including tracking of everything from recruits, fighter aircraft and site maps for the Coast Guard. You will see two new primary tabs that will take you to these categories.



You will find plenty of examples in the Sports section. The Military section is not highly populated due to restrictions on what can be shown - not much. Basically, remember that we can provide whatever content you can dream up. All we need is good art and a layout with dimensions.



In addition to the new tabs or sections, take a look at the latest boards and layouts that we've done in both the Custom and Medical sections. We removed some older boards and added some that are newer, have more color (no additional charge), and have some unique layouts.



Let us know what you think. We really do want to know.