Best Tarps

Spring is officially just about here. At least that is what the calendar states as the first day of spring, the spring equinox is March 20 (to be more exact, it begins at 5:24 pm ET). This is the season of rejuvenation, renewal, and regrowth. It is also a time of just about every type of weather from snow to rain and cold to hot. It is also the period of the year when weather can become a little more volatile from time to time.

As the weather starts to get warmer and the grass greener by the day, it is the time to get back outside to prepare the yard and garden for the growing season ahead. From cleaning to pulling to planting, there is no shortage of work to do during the daylight hours.

The spring is also the time of the year when outdoor construction, renovation, and repair work commences. Whether you are putting up a new shed, fixing the deck around back, or building a house, much of the work in these areas will occur over the next six months when it is warm outside.

Other outdoor activities also pick up during the spring. It is the time of the year that we pull our things out of storage to begin camping and fishing again. Baseball, softball, tennis, golf, track, and field outdoor seasons have begun in most parts of the country.

Part of the process of getting outside in the spring is dealing with the weather. A lot of wind and rain along with even a little snow in some areas of the country is pretty common. To help maintain the progress that we make with our yard, building projects, or anything else we are doing outside we want to protect our work, structures, areas, and supplies. One of the best ways of providing this protection is with tarps. A wide variety of covers in a variety of effective materials are available to deliver the necessary safeguarding.

Whatever it may be, we are getting outside more. This article will provide information and tips on the more common and popular tarps and covers offered to help you be safe, productive, and enjoy the outdoors over the coming months even better through our Guide to Best Tarps Uses for Spring.

Where and When to Use Tarps during the Spring

Spring has sprung. Yes, we will experience a little bit of every kind of weather and conditions over the next few months, but that should not keep us inside any longer than necessary. Get out in the yard, garage, campsite, or ball field. Tarps and covers help make your time outside better in generating protection, production, privacy, and even aesthetics.

Here are some creative, productive, and fun uses of Tarps during the springtime:

Camping and Outdoor Activities

Are you planning to take part in some outdoor adventures? Whether you are setting up camp amidst a picturesque national park or pitching a tent in your backyard you need to be prepared to conquer any conditions and embrace the challenges of changes in conditions and temperatures while always being prepared for the wet spring weather. Arm yourself with an array of versatile, heavy duty tarps which are the ultimate camping, hunting, and fishing companions. Allow these trusty tarps to transform your outdoor activities into a more fruitful, secure, and enjoyable experience. Polyethylene (poly), vinyl, and waterproof canvas tarps are excellent at providing durability and water protection for applications that include tents, tarp shelters, ground covers, equipment covers, wind barriers, privacy, water collection, and even a makeshift hammock.

Yard Work/Gardening/Landscaping

Imagine effortlessly collecting and transporting all your yard waste like a pro, whether it is grass clippings, leaves, or unruly tree branches. Say hello to the productive use of tarps. Available in poly, canvas drop cloth, vinyl, and mesh, these unsung backyard superheroes are here to make your yard work, gardening, and landscaping tasks a breeze. Picture yourself throwing, raking, or casually letting clippings, trimmings, and things dug up fall onto these sturdy and durable covers. The lightweight nature of these flexible tarps allow you to haul and carry your organic burdens with style and ease. With most tasks conquered by just one or two people, tarps are everyone's ideal sidekick. Tarps come in many convenient sizes, material weights, and even stylish colors that include camouflage.

Greenhouses

Looking to provide the ultimate light-transmitting protection for your greenhouse? A variety of super effective, cost efficient products are here to shield your plants from the rain, snow, wind, pests, and debris. These durable clear or translucent fabrics are lightweight and durable covers also offer waterproof and UV treatments to help ensure that everything undercover is safe and sound, while also maintaining the building's integrity. Available products utilized to protect greenhouses include greenhouse tarps and sheeting, poly sheeting, clear string reinforced poly tarps, super heavy duty clear poly tarps, clear vinyl tarps, and mesh shade tarps.

Painting Protection

A new coat of paint on structures or painting other things outside may be in the plans. Although it is outdoors, there is no reason to make a mess. By placing tarps down, you protect the surrounding grass, sidewalk, driveway, or other structures from spillage and splatter of painting operations. Drop cloths/painters tarps, poly tarps, and vinyl tarps are ideal for protecting the area from messes and helps make cleaning up much faster.

Construction, Renovation, and Repair Covers

Whether it is planned or not, you may have some construction, renovation, or repair projects to tackle on the house, garage, shed, deck, or other structures and equipment. It is always suggested to cover your work in progress when you are finished for the day. This allows you to protect exposed areas from rain, snow, wind, dirt, debris, and pests. Waterproof tarp products for these cover up jobs include vinyl, poly, and waterproof canvas.

Covering Your Things

Now that spring is here, it is time for pulling your things out of storage and placing them in those strategic places outside. These items may include outdoor furniture, grills, sandboxes, vehicles, boats, supplies, mowers, and power equipment. All of your possessions will be safely and securely shielded from rain, snow, wind, dirt, debris, and pests with poly tarps, vinyl tarps, clear vinyl tarps, and waterproof canvas tarps. The canvas covers also deliver the added benefit of breathability that helps in eliminating the buildup of moisture and condensation that can develop under the tarps.

Shade, Wind, and Privacy Protection

To shield your areas, possessions, and people from the sun, wind, rain, snow, and peeping eyes with tarps. This can be done to provide privacy and block the wind by installing vertically or to protect from precipitation and sun through putting up horizontally overhead. Mesh Tarps can be used for all purposes especially the shade and privacy. Solid tarps such as poly and vinyl will help block the wind, sun, and guard against rain and snow.

Storm Protection

It is almost certain that spring will deliver some volatile weather and severe storms. A selection of tarps can aid in protecting structures and other possessions from the damaging effects of wind, rain, and hail. These protective covers also help shield existing damaged areas from additional harm. Insurance companies will tell you that larger losses occur from damage taking place after the initial event from rain, wind, or pests affecting these areas. Tarps utilized for storm protection include hurricane tarps, poly tarps, vinyl tarps, waterproof canvas tarps, and mesh tarps.

Enclosing Outdoor Living Areas

Through the installation of clear vinyl tarps and clear vinyl curtains to your porches, entryways, patios, gazebos, and decks, you can quickly and easily create an additional living area at your house, condo, business, or restaurant while maintaining the views and the connection to the outside. Clear vinyl has crystal clear views, is 100 percent waterproof, UV ray resistant, and shields against both hot and cold temperatures to deliver a safe environment inside regardless of the weather on the outside.

Animal Shelters

As the spring season comes to life, our pets and livestock want and need to be outdoors as well. To help keep these furry and feathered friends safe and comfortable, why not create customized animal shelters using versatile tarps and covers? By strategically arranging tarps overhead and along the sides of your areas and pens, your animals will be ideally protected from rain, snow, wind, and debris. To increase the sturdiness, install tarps with wood, fencing, metal, or PVC pipe. Tarp candidates for animal shelters and houses include poly, vinyl, clear vinyl, and mesh.

Carrying Your Things

With all the projects and tasks to dive into this spring, why not make things a little easier when you have the chance. Tarps can be used to easily and safely carry or pull things around the yard such as grass, branches, dirt, rocks, garbage, equipment, and tools. A variety of covers will work well for these applications that include poly tarps, vinyl tarps, canvas tarps, and mesh tarps.

Protecting Truck Loads

Is it not annoying when you are hauling grass and tree trimmings to an off-site location and they keep spilling all over and flying out the back? Do not worry, here is an ideal tarp solution for you. Whether you are using a pickup truck or a trailer, a variety of covers tied down over the load will get the job done including poly tarps, vinyl, and mesh tarps. Being strong and lightweight, easy to handle these tarps are available in wide range of sizes to meet your ideal dimensions in transporting your yard waste with ease and style, helping keep your journey clean making sure everything makes it to the destination.

Ball Field Covers

With spring comes the start of baseball and softball season. A lot of work is involved in getting the ball fields in shape and in keeping them maintained. By covering the important areas with baseball and softball field tarps when not in use, the fields will remain in good shape and be protected from rain, wind, wildlife, and foot traffic. Baseball field tarp products include a wide range of field covers, wind weighted base tarps, mound covers, and field storage rollers.

Pool Covers

Now that it is spring, it will not be too much longer before you will be getting the pool ready. To help keep the water as clean as possible while not in use, tarps as pool covers are affordable and effective solutions. One product dedicated to pool coverage is the poly pro mesh tarp pool cover. This tarp is an extremely lightweight and durable mesh design that protects things from falling in like leaves and twigs while allowing rain and snow to penetrate through the porous surface to help keep your pool full and eliminate standing water on the cover preventing mosquitos and other bugs from breeding. Other mesh tarps or solid vinyl tarps are available depending on your needs.

The Best Tarps for Spring Applications

There is plenty to do on the lengthy spring list of projects. Tarps are an excellent way to help you accomplish your tasks and protect your possessions and areas. These covers are made out of effective fabrics that include polyethylene, vinyl, clear vinyl, canvas, and mesh offered in many common sizes, thicknesses, and a wide variety of color, including spring colors if that is important to you. In the sections to follow you will find descriptions on these mentioned common tarps utilized ideally in the spring.

Poly Tarps

Polyethylene (poly) tarps are cost effective and versatile products that are extremely lightweight for ease of handling and 100 percent waterproof in addition to being UV, tear, rot, mold, and mildew resistant. These poly covers are an excellent choice for a spectrum of uses including supply covers, vehicle tarps, landscaping tarps, pond liners, camping tarps, and tent covers. Poly tarps are the most popular type sold in the tarp industry. They are available in a huge assortment of sizes, thicknesses, grades, and colors to meet any of your requirements. There are also special features that include fire retardancy and camouflage color designs.

Vinyl Tarps

Vinyl tarps are versatile, extremely reliable cover products for shielding items such as residential structures, equipment, supplies, pools, and ball fields. Crafted with resilient and waterproof PVC material, vinyl tarps come in a wide range of sizes, thicknesses, material weights and colors to deliver protection for anything needed. Vinyl tarps also provide additional advantages such as UV ray, wear and tear, abrasion, rot, mold, and mildew resistance. There are also special feature options such as fire retardancy, anti-static properties, camouflage colors, and outdoor movie screens that are offered available for some vinyl products.

Clear Vinyl Tarps

Imagine a crystal clear barrier that effortlessly safeguards your cherished outdoor spaces in the spring and all year long, allowing you to make the most out of your porch, entryway, deck, or gazebo. Clear vinyl tarps are robust and stylish protectors of your outdoor living areas. With their remarkable thickness (20 and 30 Mil), and durability, they easily combat wind, rain, snow, and cold. Not only that, their remarkable transparency ensures the beautiful views outside . The material even boasts anti-microbial properties along with fire retardant options available in 20 Mil thickness. These tarps are a game-changer when it comes to vehicle and equipment covers, providing both protection and clear visibility of the details underneath.

Canvas Tarps

Enter the world of Canvas tarps, time-tested guardians against the elements. With centuries of experience shielding us from rain, snow, and other water issues, these multifaceted marvels come in a selection of styles. Whether you need heavy duty cotton, waterproof, or even fire retardant protection, there is a canvas tarp to suit your spring needs. The uses for canvas tarps are seemingly endless that include equipment and car covers, painting tarps, camping covers, landscaping tarps, and for multiple purposes in and around the campsite.

Mesh Tarps

Mesh tarps are versatile products that are utilized for a variety of springtime uses. They are constructed from strong mesh materials including vinyl and polypropylene helping deliver protection from the sun while also permitting air to pass through the woven fabric. Mesh tarps are available in a wide selection of shade factors that range from 40 percent to 95 percent, along with a variety of colors. In addition, there are also specialty mesh tarp items such as hurricane tarps, fire retardant tarps, truck tarps, containment tarps, and debris netting that provide protection for some of your many unique needs.

Tarps Now Has The Tarps To Help You Spring Into Action

Now that spring is here, it is time to get outside and tackle the tasks and projects on your to do list. Tarps Now has a wide selection of tarps available to help you get the job done. Whether it is poly, vinyl, clear vinyl, canvas, or mesh, there is a cover or two for you. When you are ready to order or if you have a question on what you actually need, please do not hesitate to contact Tarps Now directly toll-fee at (888) 800-1383 or by emails at sales@tarpsnow.com where one of our pleasant, helpful, and experienced tarp team members will be happy to speak with you.

Thank you for reading. Enjoy the Spring!