It seems like these days you can find a DIY guide on the internet for just about anything. How to train your dog, how to fix your car, how to grill a good steak—practically anything you might want to do, you can find instructions and advice for on sites like WikiHow, Quora, and all the blogs dedicated to any particular …
What Kinds of Commercial Equipment Can Shrink Wrap Protect?
If there’s one defining characteristic about humanity that always continues to astound and amaze, it’s our drive to create. The number and variety of industries out there is a testament to our raw ambition to make things, and it’s mind-boggling how much technology has been developed for any one of these industries alone. Sprawling factories full of complex, high-tech machinery, …
Shrink Wrap, Stretch Wrap, Saran Wrap—What’s the Difference?
Look, we understand—it happens all the time. When you’ve never heard of a company providing shrink wrapping service before, the first thing you think of when someone says “shrink wrap” is that thin, transparent, plastic material that you might wrap around a sandwich or stretch over the lid of a Tupperware container. And when someone starts talking about shrink wrapping …
Why You Should Be Shrink Wrapping Your Boat
There are lots of maintenance tasks that boaters know you need to perform regularly to keep your craft in top shape—cleaning, waxing, oil changes, checking the propeller, etc. But what do you do to care for your boat when it’s not in use, during the winter months or in transit on a long trip? Do you keep it sitting out …
7 Tips for Stress-Free Travel
Are you planning on moving or doing some extensive travel this summer? Do you want to bring your classic 57 Chevy along but are afraid of damaging it? Take your vacation and bring your baby too! There are proper ways to prepare and pack your car so that it doesn’t get damaged along the way. 7 tips to help make …
How to Get the Best of the Midwest
There’s a lot to enjoy about life in the American Midwest—there’s a nice mix of rural landscapes and populous cities like Chicago and Minneapolis, the locals are well-grounded and easy to engage with, and the Great Lakes lie within arm’s reach offering all sorts of fun. But one of the Midwest’s greatest strengths also happens to be one which you …
How Shrink Wrap Aids Historical Preservation
The more time goes by, the more it starts to seem as if there literally is nothing that can’t be protected with shrink wrap. But again and again, we find examples that surprise us and give us a newfound appreciation for the versatility and utility of shrink wrap. This post is dedicated to a special class of such cases—those where …
Shrink Wrap to the Rescue!
The Damaging Effects of Weather and How Shrink Wrap Can Help Why Shrink Wrap is Important for Outdoor Equipment and Supplies If you own a business or are an employee of a company that work outside with any type of hardware or industrial equipment, then this blog will be important for you to read. Here in the Midwest we experience …
How Should I Pack for a Move?
How to Successfully Pack for a Move Packing up possessions in anticipation of moving can be stressful, overwhelming, and simply exhausting. The various risks for damage, whether by the vibrations of moving cars and trucks or by movers working too quickly, only add to those worries even more. Despite all of that, there are measures that one can take to …
Why is Shrink Wrap for Storage a Must!
Why Storage Shrink Wrap is a Great Idea In some situations, it may be necessary for you to have to move items into storage, whether it is kitchen equipment that is being stored for restaurants that close seasonally, a company that is moving offices and needs its equipment put away for a period of time, or even a family that …