What would you do - with all this foam

Hello -

So I wanted some feedback on what you would do in my situation.

I sell EPS Blanks in North Florida, I work out of my house because the economy sucks (and we know there is no money in this, and who doesnt like working on surfboards at 3am??!). Long story short I got a foam order from a company in florida that is completely unusable - full refund and the whole deal, no big problem; However the four blocks (8’X2’X2’ and 11’X2’X2’) have been sitting in my garage along a wall with my other blocks keeping them company for about 3 months. I have just not wanted to touch the stuff - it is a b-bead (which is standard for most places now) but it is so brittle to the touch that it falls off (there is no decent adhesion between the beads like normal). Basically I cant make boards out of it…

My problem, I can use the stuff to make mock boards for artwork, sculptures, etc… which has gone pretty well, my girlfriend does artshows with a local hospital and has used a few chunks off it already, Im down to 3. I have more foam on the way and just want it out so I have a little more storage room! What would you do (legally) with 3 large blocks?.. mind you i have already unsuccessfully been pressured to make massive batches of napalm, artifical sandbars, whathaveyou - I would prefer to stay out of jail.

Id hate to just toss it, any ideas, suggestions would be appriciated.

You could check w/the art departments at any local schools, colleges, etc… As you know, artist love 'em some free materials… and who doesn’t want to make a massive sculpture for cheap that doesn’t weigh a lot… I’ve seen some good stuff w/eps covered in concrete.

Have your wife sew some 4’ x 2’ mattresses and fill them with the previously scratched blanks (mmmmhhhhhh… fine little beads flying everywhere…) That’s how fancy 70 Euros dog-mattresses are made, you can make at least hundreds of them, baby you’re a rich man…

That is, untill DJ (my Beauce shepperd) rips them apart and you wake up with thousands of little beads all over the floor in the whole house…

Meet DJ, the Beauce shepperd:

Meet what once was DJ’s mattress: (the white stuff is EPS beads -after I wiped the whole house-)

a bonfire is totally legal…

sacrifice a seal.

does FLA have seals?

surf yak!

shape the boat, glass it and then dissolve out the foam with sterene. sorted!

i like TaylorO’s suggestion best.

school’s are hurtin’…

my H.S. art teacher would have been thrilled with a block of eps like that…

Concrete contractors use the stuff for making voids. You could probably get rid of it at either a concrete contractors warehouse (Google White Cap Industries) or to a concrete contractor direct.