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I have some 4 mil vinyl. After I bought it, I started to wonder... can it be reused year after year? Vinyl has a bad habit of going brittle... how many winters cold it take?If your coop is properly ventilated, VOCs aren't a concern. Neither should your birds be eating it. The differences are mostly in light transmission and long term durability.
i have some clear marine vinyl that i used last winter and it’s still in great shape this year- no rips or tears at all. time will tell, but i’m using it in smaller pieces (3x5’), so not a huge deal to replace individual panels if one goes bad. i love how clearly i can see in and they can see out. i’m not worried about them consuming it (mine is applied on outside of the run).I have some 4 mil vinyl. After I bought it, I started to wonder... can it be reused year after year? Vinyl has a bad habit of going brittle... how many winters cold it take?
all vinyls aren't the same. Time will tell. Nothing else will.I have some 4 mil vinyl. After I bought it, I started to wonder... can it be reused year after year? Vinyl has a bad habit of going brittle... how many winters cold it take?
All I know is that heavier shower curtains work very well in New England winters and the chicken run is only wrapped when the temperatures will be below 30F at night. So any reaction at triple digit temps is not problematic.I will add that clear vinyls are the least durable, for lack of UV stabilizers - but there are a lot of other factors involved, and temperature is a bit component as well, particularly hard persistent freezes (they make special vinyls for use as hanging barrier strips for walk in coolers/freezers, atypical of most vinyls - as i said above, all vinyl is not the same). and as all of us old enough to have a record collection remember, temps over 100 can make some vinyls very soft - shower curtains have a higher temp range.