Material Spotlight: Benefits and Uses for Canvas Tarps

Canvas tarps are mainstays at construction sites, fire departments, cargo operations, salvage companies and schools, for covering outdoor equipment. Affordable, fold-able, long-lasting tarpaulins are also favorite buys of city dwellers, suburbanites, farmers and outdoors enthusiasts for their sheer versatility. Lightweight canvas tarps are indispensable for landscaping and home improvement projects, protecting decks and patios during outside paint or repair jobs. In freezing winter weather, protect plants on an apartment patio or a backyard...

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Pack a Tarp: Uses for Tarps While Camping

Tarps have long been the stars of must-take packing lists for camping trips. Savvy campers use them to line tent floors and cover the tops of older, iffy tents. Some who like to lighten up their backpacks on off-trail treks use tarps as their tents. Camping families buy our colorful low-cost tarps at TarpSurplus.com to cover picnic tables and create a roof above those tables to protect against rain or too much sun. Start up the grill under a fire retardant tarpaulin on rainy days. Spread one on the ground for outdoor game night. You can...

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Homeless Turn to Tarps During Cold Winter

Normally tarps are popular at construction sites, boatyards and other worksites, but this winter they were also being used as makeshift housing for homeless people. Along the banks of the Feather River in Northern California, people with nowhere else to go used tarps as roofs over pieced-together structures when temperatures dropped to the freezing point in January, the Appeal-Democrat reported. An estimated 30 to 40 people were camped along the river in a region without enough emergency beds for the number of local homeless people, the...

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