Older Portable Garage, HACK, Extend it's life by shrink wrapping it 

Hello Cathy and Rock I love the simplistic way you present things my wife and I recently moved to The Sudbury are from down Csmbridgr way we bought some property so are learning the ropes thanks sgsin

Slickest idea I've seen. Thanks!

Thanks Ricky, great tip. I’m going to have that done while everything is brand new and then see how long that will last.

Great idea. I have 2 roundtop 12x20 portable garages. Bought both in 2018. Tarps last 1 year due to birds, squirrels and direct sunlight. This is perfect. Im in lower 48 but have a few marinas close. Will start searching today. Thanks

That was very interesting video shrink wrapping your portable garage just bought a new one going to look into that thank you very much

You nailed most of the info. My same set up but I got about 5 years out of mine before it started to leak. I'm in Northern Ontario. I cleared the snow off the roof when I could. It's the sun and the wind that really beat it up. I got a good sized tarp on sale from Canadian Tire and covered it for the winter for $18. It's junk but I think it'll last until next winter and at that price I could be doing this for the next 10 years.....but, I really like what you done to yours. Good job!

Brilliant. That stuff is great for quick shelters!!!

Well done. One of the better videos I have seen.

thanks for sharing, nice video

beware of shrink wrap, the difference between welding it and burning a hole is a fraction of a second, the people who apply it have a lot of experience. I tried to teach myself but just ended up wasting a lot of money on it.

Seriously GREAT. Insulated surely.

With a flat Plywood floor, itd make a nice roomy insulated room

Great idea ,but a Smurf building in my yard I don’t know lol.

Yes that helped me alot thank you

Great idea!

Thanks so much 👍👍

After reading all these great tips here, why not shrink wrap, then cover the whole thing with cheap metal siding to protect it all....oh...wait a minute? But seriousely, great video. Next video I watch is boat shrink-wraping to see if it's diy doable.

I agree if you already have this tent/shed doing this would be very beneficial. However as others have stated, if you don't have it already, spend the $700-800 on a prefabbed shed or buy the lumber and build your own. Good tutorial of what you had done tho and thank you for it, I have one that was damaged in a hurricane and this makes sense for me to do, especially sense I'm on the coast and there are boat storage lots EVERYWHERE and I can shop around for the best price.

Hey great video it's been three years any update on how it's holding out if you could post a pic in the comments that would be great.

I wish I saw this last year. LOL - TAV 💘 🇺🇸

You can buy that stuff and DIY. you just need to get a heat source same thing that they use a weed burner set on though I think would work it may have a diverter but you can build that too diffuser like with multiple Jets I don't remember but I looked that one time and you can do it yourself for sure a lot cheaper

Very interesting!

How much did it cost? Brilliant idea.

cool good video

now that is a good idea,

Rebarb hammered down into the ground to hold it four corners used wire to tie them together ...made aswinging door

btw, thats 20 mil thk (.020 inch), not 2 mil (.002)

How much did it cost

Well done. Thank you for sharing but you actually have another very unusual anomaly here. In fact its why I stopped. One year up and you have "0" dislikes. That must be a record.

Just Setting up mine right now. (Just uploaded a video) And Was Thinking about this LOL! Nice to see it was already done. Hows it holding up right now? I am thinking of putting insulated tarp in between it

Added metal roof and walls with screws

I skinned mine with metal roof panels. Made a fine metal shed

Great video thanks! Did you get any footage of the actually shrink wrapping process? I'd like to DIY mine.

used rubber roofing my carport going on 5 years

While that looks really cool, why not just buy a $25 harbor freight tarp and cover right from the start when it's new?

HERE IN DRUMMONDVILLE QUÉBEC YOU HAVE TO TAKE IT OFF WHEN NOT IN SEASON WITH THIS BLEU TARP YOU CAN NOT TAKE IT OF AM I RIGHT

does shrink wrap come in any other color as blue doesnt go with my house...

How is this holding up 3 years later?

Very nice, except the color! Do they have a neutral color? I couldn’t stand that color for myself and if my neighbor had something that big that color I wouldn’t want to have to look at it. I painted my pop up tent with a durable deck paint I got in the county recycling bin and it looked so much better than the faded color it was.

How long did it last?

dude means 20 mil thick...

So, about $200 initial coat of tarp storage....then another $500 or so more dollars.....it might be better to invest in a more sturdy structure from an building material store, are a business that actually makes portable buildings.

you paid like 2,800 dollars to have it shrink wrapped.. You caould have built a real wood shed forless than that and it would still be there. How long did the shrink wrap job last.. I am sure it lated less then a real shed would have. Also good heavy duty tarp over the original would extend the life for years to and cost less than 50 bucks.

So wrapped a 200$ shelter for 500$ makes sense

Couldn't watch after the producer came out chewing something ....

.... & you've got absolutely no UV protection... & UV destroys, your tarp... a cheap tarp stretched over the garage annually will keep those disposable units around a decade or more.... & a heluva lot cheaper & easier.. IMO, of course.

Why not dio a video of the installation of the stuff - instead of you talking, and talking, and . . .