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Scaffold Wrapping Uses

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Poly Punched – Scaffold Wrapping

Alco’s Scaffold Wrapping is made as a heavy duty, multi-purpose polyethylene enclosure designed to give superior job site protection and safety to your workers and pedestrians alike, and is designed to withstand extreme weather conditions. Designed with durability in mind, our scaffold wrap is engineered using reinforced bands with pre-punched eyelets to guarantee easier and faster installation. ALCO Covers’ poly-punched scaffold wrapping will surely provide you the weather enclosure you need to assure you your project will move forward regardless of weather conditions.

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Our product features:

  • Base material is 3×3 weave per square inch 2400 Denier, 250 grams per square meter milky white color
  • Reinforced bands are of 14×14 weave per square inch, of 1200 Denier, 190 Grams per square meter
  • Fire-retardant: compliant to Boston Fire Marshal Test BFD IX-1 and NFPA 701 Method II
  • Premium string reinforced polyester
  • Pre-punched 15mm eyelets for ease in installation
  • UV-treated and superior rip resistance
  • Top-notch performance in extreme weather conditions
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Product applications:

  • Scaffold and building enclosure
  • Bridges, tall buildings and towers
  • Debris, dust, paint overspray and sandblast containment
  • Abatement, demolition and restoration enclosure
  • Temporary heat enclosure
  • Absolute job site protection from weather
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Construction Tarp Benefits

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Get it right from the company that gets the right solutions

ALCO Covers specializes in designing and bringing you custom-made tarps and covers, be it the standard sized ones, or those covers for industrial machine equipment, as we offer a wide range of material specifications. ALCO Covers offers you a vast range of covers and tarps direct from the factory to business across North America. Our shelves offer top quality covers made in the US, all at economic factory direct prices. Our shelves include standard sized tarps that are either heavy duty, canvas, poly, fire retardant ones or mesh. We also have ones for construction and industrial setups. Alco offers you quality customer service, carefully engineered tarps all at an economic pricing that’s unparalleled in the industry.



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We have a great roster of tarps and covers, and a great offering of customization and added features. With all this, we are confident you will surely get the right tarp for your application, for your business setup. All to protect and preserve your prized assets from rain, dust, wind, weather conditions and elements.

Construction tarps, debris netting, tarps for scaffoldings, and containment tarps usually feature heavy duty vinyl or poly material and, in most cases, the construction and scaffolding tarps are either translucent or clear. Construction tarps and scaffold sheeting are popularly preferred to protect scaffolding from moisture that leads to unwanted injuries, or for securing a structure’s interior from outside elements all the while letting light in for optimal visibility.  It also promotes public safety, as construction tarps and debris netting also help shuts down accumulation of dust and debris from scaffolding and building interiors.

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Alco’s construction tarps and scaffolding sheeting both provide resistance to temperature shifts, abrasion and high winds, and prevent moisture accumulation, and are also fire retardant, furthering safety on the job site. Our products are specifically designed with meeting the safety requirements of construction projects in mind.

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ALCO Concrete and Cement Curing Cover Features

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Alco Covers Curing Blanket

Alco’s Curing effectively and efficiently contains water, giving improved hydration, shuts down discoloration and provides a more evenly cured concrete slab compared to our competitors.

How our solution works:

Our blankets are not woven, and are synthetic fabric traps that greatly retains water and provides absolute humidity below the cover, trapping water, and providing improved hydration, less discoloration and a more evenly cured concrete slab.

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Product Benefits:

Top-notch Water Retention

The superior water retention ability of Alco’s Curing Blankets give you exceptional moisture you need for the long term wet curing of concrete surfaces

Ease of Installation and Removal

Moisture is not absorbed into blankets making removal easier, faster, lighter and less troublesome.
Greatly minimizes trapped air and unsightly discoloration
Lays out flat on a surface, which greatly helps reduce trapped air and unwanted discoloration.

Alco understands that deciding on the appropriate solution and type of product is top priority for the success of any project. ALCO Covers is powered by engineers with unprecedented knowledge and many years of industry experience of successful project applications and are ready to help you find the right solution for your application. Let’s discuss about your winning project application today.

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Synthetic Concrete Curing Blankets in White

Product Overview

Alco’s wet curing blankets consist of a high absorbent synthetic needle punched fabric covered with white reflective film. Our blankets are engineered to be hydrated and contain moisture during the concrete curing process. Compared to burlap, our synthetic fabric does not rot nor mildew. Alco’s Blankets are disposable and light in weight, easily making them an economical choice in concrete curing yet durable enough for reuse for your next projects.

Product Applications

• Freshly poured concrete
• Pavement, tunnel and road construction
• Decorative and/or stained concrete
• Flatwork
• Bridge and overpass projects
• Vertical concrete construction
• Building construction
• Highway and interstate projects

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Key Features

• 21 mil in thickness
• White in color
• Mildew resistant, does not rot
• Super absorbent synthetic needle punched fabric
• White reflective film coating
• Moisture retention specifications, compliant to AASHTO M-171 and ASTM C-171

Product Benefits

• Absolutely reusable
• Sunlight reflective, white poly
• Absorbent fabric promotes moisture retention
• Flexible material, easy to handle
• Meets DOT requirements for curing
• Superb lamination between two fabrics

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Synthetic Concrete Curing Blankets

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Synthetic Curing Blankets

ALCO Covers is an innovative provider reputably known in fabrics that meet required product specifications. Alco works with synthetic curing blanket fabrics that are designed with these key points in mind:
• Prevent handling damage
• Provide protection
• Permeable
• Recyclable
• Slip resistant and flame retardant

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Product Properties

  • Superb permeability to preserve moisture
  • Reinforced to resist tear and puncture
  • Superior form – easily foldable without cracking
  • Bi-directional superior strength
  • UV stability to prevent damage and degradation from sunlight
  • Water, oil, grease resistant

Our products are best used for but not limited to:

  • Concrete forms
  • Scaffolding
  • Concrete walls and slabs
  • Bridge support beams and caps
  • Construction projects
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Synthetic Curing Fabrics:

Alco’s team provides a number of choices in utilizing “Weaving & Extrusion Coating” technology. All depending on your specifications, and on your extrusion requirements, our products are offered in either polypropylene or polyethylene substrate with extrusion coating. We manufacture the fabric as per your preferences of thickness, width, strength, color and any added features you may prefer. Alco’s synthetic blanket fabrics give you a convenient and efficient way to preserve moisture during the concrete curing process. Our blanket allows concrete to maintain the moisture and avoid elements in the curing process to reduce or avoid dusting, scaling and cracking.

Our team has a unique composition olefin slit film (to 6 mm), made with high-grade resin to achieve the unique properties of products we deliver. On top of that, Alco makes use of modern weaving machines with up-to-date peripherals to reduce strain of slit film all the while without damaging its intended properties during extrusion.

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Tarp Safety Tips

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On Safely Handling Tarps

Making use of a tarp at work is bothersome and taxing. It’s also a health hazard too. Accidental slips and handling accidents can consequently lead to disabling, and even fatal, undesirable injuries. But your workers must use tarps daily to protect themselves, the work’s assets, and company materials. One can reduce chances of tarp-related accidents by implementing programs to train staff on proper handling practices of tarps.

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Tarp-Handling and its Hazards

Workers utilize different tarps depending on purpose on a given job site, and each kind of tarp has its own set of hazards. Water-resistant ones are heavy, and are used to cover large structural openings. These heavy ones are hard to maneuver and always best moved around with mechanical equipment, such as cranes. But though more convenient, these mechanical aids are not always available, and workers are left with one choice, doing everything by hand. This puts workers in situations where manual labor is the only option, and potentially gives risk of injury.

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Wind-tarps

There are tarps that are made using lighter materials, conveniently dubbed lightweight tarps. These lightweight tarps, while easier to manage, still pose hazards. Materials left from its fireproofing process significantly increase tarp weight, making removal challenging, taxing and tough. Insulated tarps, designed to cover curing concrete still are hazardous to work staff, as workers bend to pull the tarps from foot level, possibly leading to overexertion of the body. Most materials tarps are made from are highly combustible, and can lead to fire accidents when used within proximity of welding equipment, or those ones that produce sparks and fire.

All tarps, regardless of kind, are prone to changes of wind, as it gusts of wind can violently pick it up from its place. It’s always crucial that that safety measures are always in place – making sure the tarp is secured and staff are properly trained.

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Work Site Hazards Prevention

Preventing work hazards is always key to unwanted accidents, injury and project delays. Let’s read through some tips to help make your work environment and your staff safer:

• Make use of mechanical equipment whenever possible to help eliminate manual labor and injury.
• Have a contingency plan readily available should mechanical aids be not available.
• Study the kinds of tarps. Use the tarp fit for your work environment
• Always have perimeter protection for tarp installation and removal. Should perimeter protection not be possible, see to it that all workers have safety equipment.
• Assure proper assembly of all scaffold frame couplings to resist the influence of wind and weather.
• Position and secure tarps properly on trucks, load cargo properly to minimize chances of tearing.

Hazards for Drivers

Moving construction cargo to work sites are also high risk for truck drivers, due to possible injuries from overexertion, and and falls from machinery. Although typically, mechanical aids are mostly available at work sites, drivers must remove large, heavy protective tarps from loads manually by themselves upon delivery. In some cases, drivers have to disengage tarps with no steady footholds.

What to do to for prevention:

• Pulling tarps from below the shoulder towards the torso is more effective and gives less strain compared to a downward pull with hands above shoulder height.
• A hard pull is better than pulling the tarp slowly.
• Securing loads in plastic leashes forces to a tolerable extent.
• Rather than doing tasks individually, attending to tarps in groups greatly reduces manual labor and energy exerted.

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Implementation of safety measures that need to be met for further safety in manually moving tarp covers should mechanical aid be not available:
• When a forklift or a crane is not available, get help from other workers and plan the lift. Keep the load close to the body, avoid twisting, and lift together.
• Avoid strains and falls while pulling tarp off a load:
• Seek help from other staff to lessen strain and plan the lift.
• Know the distance and possible obstacles the workers will be facing/exposed to.
• Take close attention to proper footholds and elements the tarp and the workers will be exposed to while the tarp and workers are on the move.
• Have a firm grip on the tarp and not just the ropes, which can slip or break.
• Spread feet for balance.
• Utilize body weight to pull the tarp.
• Pull tarp facing it, to watch its movement.
• Reduce arm and shoulder strain when folding tarps:
• Put down tarp flat on a surface to check for holes or tripping hazards.

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