Canvas tarp is made from heavy duty 100% duck fabric, unlike poly tarpsyou easily can retreat old your canvas tents and tarps to make them water resistant again with treatment such as Canvak. Canvas tarps are water, mildew and rot resistant with waterproof protective finish for extreme protection. Canvas tarps are generally more expensive than poly tarps.
Canvas tarps can used extensively for covers, trucking, and constructions. some use of canvas tarps can be used to:
• Boat covers
• Camping
• Fire Retardant Tarps (with fire retardant coating)
• Motorcycle Covers
• Canvas tarp is high quality for tents and canopies
• Heavy duty truck tarps.
Poly Tarp stands for polyethlene tarpaulin, P.E. tarp or PE tarp in short. Poly tarps comes in following two forms: Ready Made Poly Tarps and Poly Tarp Rolls. Poly tarps are made of polyethlene coating over polyester or nylon mesh fabric. Ready made poly tarps are pre-cut and pre-sized and usually with grommets installed along all edges. On the other hand, poly tarp rolls are large industrial rolls of poly tarps. here is the characteristics of poly tarp:
• Flexible – poly tarp is basically a sheet of coated fabric.
• Water resistant or waterproof.
• Poly tarps are usually the least expensive type of tarps and most widely used.
• Strong and tear resistant.
• U.V. coated – Many poly tarps are coated with a U.V. protecting coating for protection from sunlight.
• Arctic flexibility – most poly tarps function well at freezing temperatures.
• Reinforced – ready made poly tarps often have rope reinforcements along the sides and reinforced grommets at the corners and along the sides to form attachment points for rope.
• Mildew resistant.
Tarp’s truck tarp fabric features high durability. truck tarp withstands strong winds, rains, sun and below zero temperatures. truck tarp comes in two forms: Polyester or Nylon. Nylon fabric is for longer lasting applications that require highest tear strength, more flexibility and greater stretch.truck tarp with polyester is best suited to the broadest range of truck tarp needs.
Following are typical specifications of truck tarp :
* Waterproof
* Mildew proof
* Tear Resistant
* Acid Resistant
* Artic Flexibility



