When you need to use a durable and good-quality tarp for your business, greenhouse or even for an outdoor adventure, you must make sure that it serves your specific purposes. However, before you step onto a store or add a product on your shopping cart online, especially if you are buying one for the first time, there are a few things that you should know to make sure that the trap you buy eventually is heavy-duty.
These tarps come in different sizes. Needless to say, there is no one-size-fits-all tarp. Different sizes cater to varying needs of the people, whether it is for residential, commercial or industrial use. Even better, you can have these custom-made to ensure a better fit.
These tarps come in different grades. Though all types of tarps will be advertised as strong and durable, there are different classes or grades in it. This means that a specific tarp will be able to withstand a particular number of stressors. There are light-duty tarps that are perfect for temporary shelters and a heavyduty tarp for long-term outdoor use.
Heavy-duty tarps are, however, heavier in comparison to the light-duty variant but are convenient, inexpensive and instant fix to common issues such as:
- Leaky roofs
- Truck covers and
- Instant garage.
These longer-lasting tarps are more commonly used for industrial and commercial purposes. These have high resiliency to chemicals and UV rays and have a glossy surface that is exceptionally resilient to flex cracking.
Different uses of tarps
In the past, these tarps, known as tarpaulins, were used by sailors to cover different objects on their boats. Now, apart from covering your equipment, you can use a heavy-duty tarp for various purposes.
- You can use as a shelter during camping trips or use it as a groundsheet. Backpackers use lighter tarps to carry their loads comfortably.
- Tarps can also be used as groundsheets while painting or use it on scaffolding for protection from the weather.
- You can cover your log store with it to protect firewood from the weather and from rotting due to any contact with the water in the soil.
- You can even use a tarpaulin as a homemade water slide, no matter how bizarre it may seem, using a steep hill and bubble bath or washing-up liquid on the surface.
However, when you use a heavy-duty tarp to cover your car or your thatched roof, make sure that the surface is dry and it is tied correctly.
Other uses of tarps
Heavy-duty tarps are also used for other purposes apart from the above due to its useful properties of strength, flexibility and waterproof ability.
- Government and different NGOs use these tarps to provide shelter to the homeless after a natural calamity strikes. It is easy to make tents out of these tarps.
- Tarps are used on trucks to cover the material they carry to faraway places to prevent the pieces from falling or being damaged during transit.
Even farmers use tarps for agricultural purposes to protect the food grains from rain, animals, insects and sunlight.
