"Howard Neil" wrote in message
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Mary Fisher wrote:
"Howard Neil" wrote in message
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This may be a good time to ask local farmers for their used sheets.


I don't know farmers who use them and my garden plots are measured in
low single numbers of square yards, not hectares. And I only have four
plots.


Ask your daughter to obtain some and collect it when you next visit?


She's, er, otherwise engaged at the moment. Pregnant.

Congratulations, Granny. :-)

Nothng to do with me.


I'll post the result if my experiments tomorrow.


How about you picking up a bit for me, I'll collect it in July?

I've already had my neighbour's plastic (the only one I know who has a
silage clamp). The others all use silage bales. :-(

So do daughter's neighbours.

Never mind, I'll have to leave empty handed:-)

Mary

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Howard Neil

Ian Stirling wrote:

The plastic in some areas is quite degraded.
The south-east corner has perhaps 1/3 the pull-through strength of
the north-west one.


How about lacing in a new piece of poly? Mind you, that sounds a real
challenge to the system.

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Howard Neil

In uk.d-i-y Howard Neil wrote:
Ian Stirling wrote:

The plastic in some areas is quite degraded.
The south-east corner has perhaps 1/3 the pull-through strength of
the north-west one.


How about lacing in a new piece of poly? Mind you, that sounds a real
challenge to the system.

I have a replacement cover, which is going to be put on at some point.
Replacing bits would be slight overkill.
However, on one end, it's probably going to get the old cover moved inside,
to form double glazing.

Ian Stirling wrote:
In uk.d-i-y Howard Neil wrote:

Ian Stirling wrote:


The plastic in some areas is quite degraded.
The south-east corner has perhaps 1/3 the pull-through strength of
the north-west one.


How about lacing in a new piece of poly? Mind you, that sounds a real
challenge to the system.


I have a replacement cover, which is going to be put on at some point.
Replacing bits would be slight overkill.
However, on one end, it's probably going to get the old cover moved inside,
to form double glazing.

That sounds good. If you could get some bubble wrap, you could perhaps
put it between the two layers of poly and improve the double glazing
effect still further.

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Howard Neil

Howard Neil wrote:
You can buy a special tape for this. It is like a very strong
sellotape,
at least as strong as Duck tape but clear(ish).

They actually do make clear Duck Tape
http://www.laoffice.co.uk/Adhesives-...ear-568722.htm

In uk.d-i-y Howard Neil wrote:
Ian Stirling wrote:
In uk.d-i-y Howard Neil wrote:

Ian Stirling wrote:


The plastic in some areas is quite degraded.
The south-east corner has perhaps 1/3 the pull-through strength of
the north-west one.


How about lacing in a new piece of poly? Mind you, that sounds a real
challenge to the system.


I have a replacement cover, which is going to be put on at some point.
Replacing bits would be slight overkill.
However, on one end, it's probably going to get the old cover moved inside,
to form double glazing.

That sounds good. If you could get some bubble wrap, you could perhaps
put it between the two layers of poly and improve the double glazing
effect still further.

Bubblewrap is very, very UV degradable unfortunately.

Ian Stirling wrote:
In uk.d-i-y Howard Neil wrote:

That sounds good. If you could get some bubble wrap, you could perhaps
put it between the two layers of poly and improve the double glazing
effect still further.


Bubblewrap is very, very UV degradable unfortunately.

That's a shame. Back to the drawing board. :-(

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Howard Neil