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Produce => Under Glass => Topic started by: tim on April 29, 2005, 11:47:30

Title: Reflective material - white or shiny?
Post by: tim on April 29, 2005, 11:47:30

Killing 2 birds with one stone -

www.growthtechnology.com.

This is not on the site yet.

Title: Re: Reflective material - white or shiny?
Post by: sandersj89 on April 29, 2005, 11:57:44

Thanks Tim.

Jerry

Title: Re: Reflective material - white or shiny?
Post by: Moggle on April 29, 2005, 12:11:07

Thanks Tim  :)
Have been using a few sheets of laminated white card, and all seems to be well with those  :) Haven't done a comparitive test with foil though  :)

Title: Re: Reflective material - white or shiny?
Post by: tim on April 29, 2005, 12:17:29

That's always the crunch - none of us do?? And no 2 years are the same.
I've always used card before - because I'm a picture framer!! - but this stuff does seem to be a real improvement.

But against foil? Don't know.

Title: Re: Reflective material - white or shiny?
Post by: derbex on April 29, 2005, 12:54:18

I assume the Mylar is coated or treated in some way as the stuff degrades in sunlight (or so my sailmaker tells me).

Title: Re: Reflective material - white or shiny?
Post by: tim on April 29, 2005, 13:29:49

Oh??

In passing, this is the 'white sheeting'.

Title: Re: Reflective material - white or shiny?
Post by: northener on April 29, 2005, 14:11:25

Thats a nice looking greenhouse Tim. Is that your setup with the mareial and growbags in place? i'm a bit wary of using a  plastic mulch, will the slugs not lurk underneath?

Title: Re: Reflective material - white or shiny?
Post by: tim on April 29, 2005, 16:09:24

That's most of it - there'll be 20 bags in all.

First lot of cus out the far end today.

Slugs? So long as they lurk underneath, I'm happy! Normally, we only have the wood shavings that you can see, & they don't like those. But they should be easy meat if they stray onto the sheet?