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Title: polytunnel plastic
Post by: daveandtara on January 13, 2006, 20:31:04

can anyone tell me if there's some reason i shouldn't use the membrane designed for underneath laminate flooring on my DIY polytunnel? :-\

it's available everywhere and really cheap (i'm skint at the mo)

i've done a search but there is so much on polytunnels that i might never find what i'm looking for.  ::)

is there a major drawback i'm just not seeing? it only needs to work for one or two seasons. chances are vandals will have wrecked by the anyway!  ::)

Dave

Title: Re: polytunnel plastic
Post by: Merry Tiller on January 13, 2006, 22:50:38

It'll do the job but after a summer or two it will start to go brittle & crack up due to the UV in sunlight

Title: Re: polytunnel plastic
Post by: daveandtara on January 13, 2006, 23:34:46

fantastic! ;D
that'll do me!

thanks MT
Dave

Title: Re: polytunnel plastic
Post by: cheddarpaul on January 14, 2006, 17:44:08

this is spooky....2 posts about the same thing at the same time....

today I visited my local garden centre and bought 6m x 1.5m of small bubblewrap - this with my chopped up garden hose and a few stones as weights will be making up my polytunnel experiment

the plastic only cost £8 too! is the flooring underlay any cheaper then?