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Feb 4, 2014 4:29 PM CST
Name: Karen
Fort Worth, TX (Zone 7b)
Aroids Plumerias Plays in the sandbox Enjoys or suffers hot summers Garden Ideas: Level 1
First & foremost I want to Thank Everyone for a extremely nice welcome!!!
What a nice community. People actually communicate here...refreshing

Let me see if I can do some followup here. I will create a separate thread for Shrink Wrap or an article??
Ken the pics are perfect that is the material. Our cover is around 10+ years old+/- and we remove in April or so and it goes back on in November. We roll it with a piece of plumbing pipe in the middle and suspend it in the Garage..can't get much simpler than that. Similar to how one would hang a bike! That said it is a hot garage and SC just seem to be almost indestructible. It performs year after year like it is it's first.

Our cover does not go all the way to the bottom..You might ask why?? Fair question we deliberated that and I'm not sure if there is a right or wrong answer here. One this product is heavy. Two if we are having a really nasty spring we leave the cover on. We will roll up the side of the SW allowing more air etc. Yes SW is that fluid!! The SC is almost 18" from the ground on the sides, the ends are to the ground. The method below has worked very well over the years.
Dave a little food for thought, you could buy insulation sheets to go around the outside of your gh White side facing out shiny side in & over lap the SC over this. Cut them in half length wise so you have roughly a 2' wall of cold barrier. We do this in reverse on the inside to block the 2' freeze zone in a gh. You know what I'm referring to?

Vents.....This temp house does not have vents. It is sealed SW No air penetration or ventilation. That said..we open the door keep & fan running on hot days..and all is good. Having zero air leaking in is something we have never experience in a gh till we started using the SW!!! Our permanent GH leaks air like crazy.

Ok I will add one photo of it Green Grin!

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I think as Ken put it best this product has an endless amount of uses. I will in the next year or so skin our permanent GH in it. Have not quite figured this out yet...but we are going to give that some thought.
Holding it on? We string rope over the gh in a zig zag patter anchored with cement blocks, holds like a charm. The winter of 11 we had a foot of snow..no issues with the structure..no power...well that was a different story Sad

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