Oh *fantastic*. I really love Tough Top. It's light - same kind of weight class as silnylon if I remember correctly - and very tough, good in UV, and the UK brand has *monstrous* plastic welded grommets which clearly never, ever tear out.
Recommended, and thank you, Robert! V> -- *Vinay Gupta * * [email protected] <[email protected]> * *http://re.silience.com* <http://re.silience.com> *Free Science and Engineering in the Global Public Interest* UK Cell : +44 (0)7500 895568 Twitter/Skype/Gtalk: hexayurt "In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer" - Albert Camus On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Robert Atkins <[email protected]> wrote: > I thought I'd grab one of these for under the yurt this year, but it's > taken a while to track down. > > In the UK, they're sold as "Top Tarp", in India, "Silpaulin" but neither > of those get any hits in the US. After digging around for a while I managed > to find http://xf-plasticfilms.com, the licensor of the technology, which > led me to Reef Industries and their "Permalon" product: > http://www.reefindustries.com/permalon.php > > It's around 40c/square foot, compared to random blue poly tarps on eBay > which go for ~$0.10/sq ft. But it sounds like it'll last longer. > > Reef are insisting on writing me up a quote and emailing me an order form > I have to fill out, but if you google "permalon" you can find retailers in > the US. > > Cheers, Robert. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "hexayurt" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
