Tuesday 8 November 2016

All tarped up!

I have no idea why it's taken me this long to post these pictures. There was one week in mid-Oct where it was fairly nice and things dried up (it had been raining off and on for a few weeks). We got tarps on everything during that dry window and then it started to rain again a few days later, so perfect timing.
Tom scowling at the camera.
 The two main tarps are 40ft x 60 ft, so a lot of the berm is covered too. It should keep the snow melt off so that we can get started right away in the spring, and more importantly, it will keep water off during the freeze/thaw cycle for those weeks in the winter when it's above zero, sunny, and melting during the day, and below zero and freezing during the night. You definitely want to avoid water getting into the tire walls when those freeze/thaw cycles occur. This should hopefully be the only winter we have to do this; we hope to get the roof on by the end of next summer/fall.
That's about $500 worth of tarp in this one shot. Probably $600 of tarps all together. They're the good quality super thick ones so hopefully we can reuse them for other purposes in years to come.