I have used black plastic for the past several years and love it. You can either do as denninmi stated, or what i do is after a rain storm I walk around with a pointy stick and see where the water pools up and just poke holes in the pastic, has worked just fine. In my garden, the black plastic actually allows me to water less than I would otherwise due to the fact that it holds the moisture in. As far as slugs - I still have some slug issues, but not a ton. It does cook some both on top and under, but at night when it's cool, they still make it across to the veges once in awhile. As far as other products that are breathable, I have tried some and i don't like them for a few reasons. The main one being is they don't work very well as a weed barrier (weeds will still grow up and through them. In addition, while they do warm the soil some, they don't quite as much as the black plastic (using the wife's meat thermometer - shhh don't tell her!- it was a difference of almost 10 degrees in the spring time). My 5 cents :)

I should probably just scratch the idea unless I stumble across nice looking sheets for a great price. I agree if the fabric is thin it isn't going to look nice. I considered fabric but it sounded like less work somehow just using sheets. I guess it's not really. Terriks those curtains from Ikea would be perfect and more what I would rather spend. I sooo wish Ikea would mail their curtains. I'd probably use them for everything. For the gas it would cost me to drive to a store, I should just buy the JCP ones. Well making curtains was a short lived thought! :)

Easy to be confused by flooring options. In the vinyl category you have the sheet format and tile and plank formats. Some in each category are installed with adhesive and some are not. Perhaps the sheet you chose can only be installed using adhesive...in that case the estimator would be correct in stating that it cannot be installed over particle board. You have to check to see which can be installed directly over particle board. Information from manufacturers, either on the packaging or in technical specifications on their websites, can tell you what is an acceptable substrate for each product and how the substrates must be prepared.

Thank you.. Not too nosy, since I mention it plenty of times, here and there.. I was born in Kiev, Ukraine, the former Soviet Union.. as much as I felt I've moved on-we left when I was 18..this Maidan revolution in 2014 and everything that's followed was hard on me..you see, my childhood home overlooked Maidan( that was of course called differently, and I must say looked much much nicer then..it's like these urban planners compete how to make it uglier, really)..anyway when you see the place you were born, saw from your window, walked every day.. place that was your home..burning..you suddenly understand that you didn't move too far.. and no, you can't predict, until something like this happens. I really thought it's part of me, of my past, integral part, but not a home anymore. Israel is my home. we moved to Israel.. I spent there many years..then my ex got transferred here..I was hysterical and didn't want to go yet I went..very young kids, family..you know.. then they transferred us back I was so happy still wasn't a walk in the rose garden..as much as my previous employers loved me-they didn't hold space for me..:) so looking for new job and all that..you do start again, even if you left for some time and went back you still adjust. even when everything around you spells home. And Israel has this thing about it..you change, it changes, yet it's the only place on Earth that gives meaning to me being there, besides just being with the people I love anywhere else I won't say it's a Garden of Eden, yes? it can be downright scary..the bombings and all-I wasn't there(actually came to take care of my Mom, also in 2014- but they didn't get to Haifa then..was too far for their missiles..)..but I lived in Jerusalem through two intifadas..you understand that every day is a dying day(c)..yet you know..you continue..because -where else? and you have to stay human. there are two sorts of death, right? This is a very strange, magical place. People go crazy there. We even have "The Jerusalem Syndrome"..:) that some tourists get..need to be send to a hospital for some time, take meds you know..they start thinking they are Messiahs.. It's too old and seen it all. Jerusalem I mean. It doesn't care about you. And the sky is amazingly high there. But you can't stop caring about it. When I'm in Israel and it so happens I didn't go to Jerusalem-I feel I didn't fully go.. so.. sorry about the big lyrical off top..when my ex's bosses decided to send us here again I was very sad but less panicky..I thought "ok they're going to send us back again, as they did the first time" and then everything unfolded differently so..as they say in Russian fairy tales "for longer for shorter"..for now I'm here, and listen, I love it too. It's been many years already..I lived on two coasts..I think 7 years(altogether) on the East, and probably 7 on the West? goodness..time really flies I love West Coast much more first, it reminds me of Israel. The sky is high here too..:) and other things second, I'm plainly happier. on some important accounts but I will always want to go back If somebody translated Joseph Brodsky's poem(no.. he never been to Israel and never wanted to, and didn't feel any connection as per his interviews.. but since he was a genius poet he just knew certain things I guess...that's a poem about a desert)..in short if I find a good translation-I'll post it..the link I mean ok..that was really long..:)