Hello everyone,
I just received my new canopy from Todd's today. It's been quite an eerie nice
today. First when I went to the trucking company to pick it up, I was told the
box was "crushed and punctured"! I dismantled the box on the dock before
accepting the shipment, but much to my relief, the canopy was undamaged. And
this was after traveling by truck from Florida to Alaska during the last three
weeks of storms out east.
So now the Spraylat. After spending almost $600 on shipping, I started looking
for Spraylat to protect this piece of art. It is no where to be found, but I
found a new type of painters tape, 3M brand Deluxe Trim tape for Delicate
Surfaces. It's advertised to peel off easily even after 60 days. So I laid 3
rolls of 2" tape on the inside and out. It looked great. I decided to take a
break at that time because I was getting a headache, then my wife came home.
She asked what the smell was, and of course I didn't know what she was asking
about until I left the living room, where I was working on the canopy. Come to
find out, the tape was off gassing some chemicals very toxic to both of us
which had, by this time, given me a migraine.
I later removed the tape and covered the canopy with plain white contact paper.
I'm much happier now and the headache is gradually going away.
Now to figure out how to install this canopy.
Rodger Nicolls
Anchorage, Alaska
