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5 Canvas-Based Projects to Improve Your Home
Adding color, texture, and cohesiveness to your home can turn it from being a place you live to a place you can’t wait to return home to. If you’re not excited to return home after running errands or working all day, it’s not good. Canvas is an affordable way to make...
Tips for Properly Cleaning and Maintaining Canvas Fabrics
Before you can understand how to clean and maintain canvas fabrics, it’s helpful to know what canvas is. It’s a heavy-duty fabric that’s usually made of cotton with a plain weave. It can be left in its natural state for drop cloths and making clothing or pillows. It...
The Benefits of Using Canvas For Upholstery and Furniture
Throughout the world, most people toss out or give away furniture that is worn out, but is this the best option? An average of 5.25 billion trees are estimated to be chopped down each year, and 37% of those trees become timber for making paper products, building...
Canvas Vs. Vinyl Tarps: Which Material Is Best For Your Project?
Tarpaulins, or tarps for short, have a long history, dating back as early as the 1600s when sailors would coat fabric with tar to provide a waterproof covering while sleeping or to cover and protect items from the water. Plastic tarps wouldn’t appear for many...
Do Tarps Hold In Heat?
Tarps are useful for indoor and outdoor use. Most people think of them as a covering to keep items dry and protect them from ice, rain, and snow, but they’re good for more than that. One of the handiest features of some tarps is that they can hold in heat. Tarps are...
What Thickness Do Tarps Come In?
When you think about a tarp, you might think of the multi-purpose blue tarp that’s often sold in discount stores. The reality is there are more than a dozen different types of tarp materials, and their thickness is a key factor in what the tarp’s best use is. What...
Best Tarps To Protect Plants in the Winter
Winter weather extremes are impossible to predict, but your plants shouldn’t take the brunt of the snow, ice, bitter cold temperatures, winds, or flooding rains. It’s clear that the winter of 2023 is going to be unusual in many areas. From bomb cyclones in California...
How To Build a Backyard Skating Rink This Winter With Tarps
Getting the kids outside in the winter can be challenging, especially if your neighborhood or yard lacks a sledding hill. It’s time to consider building a backyard skating rink. Even a small yard has the space you need. Questions to Ask Yourself Before Getting Started...
Ten Things You’re Doing That Can Shorten Your Tarp’s Lifespan
Whether you purchase a vinyl tarp for a slip-and-slide or a heavy-duty poly tarp to cover firewood for the winter, you want to make sure it lasts. Are you making mistakes when you use or care for your new tarp? Here are ten things that people do that shorten their...
20 Ways to Use a Tarp as Fall and Winter Arrive
Fall is here and winter will arrive before we know it. With the arrival of cooler weather comes our list of 20 ways to use a tarp as cold weather, falling leaves, and snow arrive. Lawn Clean-Up Foliage is peaking in some areas, and we all know what happens next. As...