Aqua3 custom laminating service – waterproof any map.

[hufty]

I posted this in Cycling Goods and Services as well but does anyone ever look in there unless they want to whinge about Spa or SJSC (+1 Spa, +1 SJSC by the way). Anyway, if there's a way for moderators to unify threads across forums please feel free...

We’ve all seen the Ordnance Survey Active Maps for sale, but I didn’t know until a few weeks ago that you can post any map you want to Aqua3 in Derbyshire and they will laminate it with the same stuff they use on the OS maps then post it back to you, all for about a tenner. Absolutely brilliant and worth every penny. I had three road maps of Norway done. Without laminating they would have disintegrated within a couple of days as there was so much rain and general dampness. The web site is http://www.aqua3.com/services.asp

(In the past I’ve also tried a wipe-on solution, Nikwax MapProof, which comes in a bottle with a shoe shine applicator. From experience, if you’re not incredibly careful, it’s a great way to shred a map, and even if you are careful it weakens the maps at the folds, whereas lamination strengthens the map at the folds.)