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Blue Harbor Freight Tarps are Garbage
After six months the thing is leaking like a sieve. It has apparently
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Blue Harbor Freight Tarps are Garbage
On Monday, June 11, 2012 11:04:09 AM UTC-4, Davej wrote:
After six months the thing is leaking like a sieve. It has apparently lost the waterproof coating. ALL blue tarps are garbage, and have been since the early 1980's at least. Where have you been? They're meant for TEMPORARY, OCCASIONAL use. If you want a better tarp go with the silver or green ones. Even those aren't meant for permanent installations. No tarp is. Brown canvas tarps last the longest but even those aren't forever. |
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Blue Harbor Freight Tarps are Garbage
On Jun 11, 2:06*pm, wrote:
On Monday, June 11, 2012 11:04:09 AM UTC-4, Davej wrote: After six months the thing is leaking like a sieve. It has apparently lost the waterproof coating. ALL blue tarps are garbage, and have been since the early 1980's at least.. Where have you been? They're meant for TEMPORARY, OCCASIONAL use. If you want a better tarp go with the silver or green ones. Even those aren't meant for permanent installations. No tarp is. Brown canvas tarps last the longest but even those aren't forever. Well, I thought they were FRAGILE and likely to tear, not utterly POROUS. |
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Blue Harbor Freight Tarps are Garbage
On 6/11/2012 11:04 AM, Davej wrote:
After six months the thing is leaking like a sieve. It has apparently lost the waterproof coating. If you want a leak-free roof for more than six months, maybe you should try some real shingles? http://www.certainteed.com/products/roofing/residential |
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Blue Harbor Freight Tarps are Garbage
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 08:04:09 -0700 (PDT), Davej
wrote: After six months the thing is leaking like a sieve. It has apparently lost the waterproof coating. *** YOU MUST HAVE JUST WOKE UP *** Here's a clue! *EVERYTHING* From Harbor Freight is GARBAGE..... |
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Blue Harbor Freight Tarps are Garbage
On Jun 11, 3:06*pm, wrote:
On Monday, June 11, 2012 11:04:09 AM UTC-4, Davej wrote: After six months the thing is leaking like a sieve. It has apparently lost the waterproof coating. ALL blue tarps are garbage, and have been since the early 1980's at least.. Where have you been? They're meant for TEMPORARY, OCCASIONAL use. If you want a better tarp go with the silver or green ones. Even those aren't meant for permanent installations. No tarp is. Brown canvas tarps last the longest but even those aren't forever. I've got a couple of heavy duty brown plastic tarps that are at least twice as thick as any other tarp I've ever had. Don't know where they came from...other than that my dad bought them for me years ago. A group I volunteer with has some large (like 20' x 20') silver tarps that we've used to cover equipment during overnight torrential downpours. We've had them for years, are not very nice to them, and they are still waterproof. |
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Blue Harbor Freight Tarps are Garbage
On Jun 11, 10:18*pm, wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 08:04:09 -0700 (PDT), Davej wrote: After six months the thing is leaking like a sieve. It has apparently lost the waterproof coating. *** YOU MUST HAVE JUST WOKE UP *** Here's a clue! *EVERYTHING* From Harbor Freight is GARBAGE..... Bull. |
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Blue Harbor Freight Tarps are Garbage
On Jun 11, 11:53*pm, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Jun 11, 10:18*pm, wrote: On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 08:04:09 -0700 (PDT), Davej wrote: After six months the thing is leaking like a sieve. It has apparently lost the waterproof coating. *** YOU MUST HAVE JUST WOKE UP *** Here's a clue! *EVERYTHING* From Harbor Freight is GARBAGE..... Bull. Yeah, my experience has been that while nothing is real durable, a lot of what they have is great for the kind of tool you need to use once in 3 years. If I were using it every day, I wouldn't buy it from HF, but then it would cost many times more. The only thing I bought that was real garbage was a set of retaining ring pliers. The tips were made out of steel that was so soft they would just bend instead of spreading the retaining ring. I took them back and they refunded my money. |
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Blue Harbor Freight Tarps are Garbage
"Davej" wrote in message ... After six months the thing is leaking like a sieve. It has apparently lost the waterproof coating. No, they are not. They are cheap temporary coverings, and for that, they do well. For anything that is really exposed to weather for any length of time, they are wimpy, but what do you expect for $2.99 for a 400 sf covering? Steve |
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Blue Harbor Freight Tarps are Garbage
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:12:20 -0500, Jim Yanik wrote:
wrote in : On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 08:04:09 -0700 (PDT), Davej wrote: After six months the thing is leaking like a sieve. It has apparently lost the waterproof coating. *** YOU MUST HAVE JUST WOKE UP *** Here's a clue! *EVERYTHING* From Harbor Freight is GARBAGE..... baloney;I have a Rapidcut pull saw from HF that is very good. I have a HF clone of a Bosch 1581 jigsaw(no longer sold by them) that is great. I have a great canvas tool bag from HF. The $19 HF multitool is good too. I've had their $100 10" SCMS for about six years. I also have a Bosch 12" so the HF doesn't get used much anymore but if I work on a project outside, the HF SCMS goes with me. The Bosch is much harder to move and if it rains, I don't care much about the HF saw. The HF saw is certainly good enough for most framing jobs. |
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