A Tyvek Christmas Miracle

Friday December 25, 2015

•  baking •  Christmas •  Dupont Tyvek •  materials science and engineering •  painting •  polypropylene • 

A couple of years ago, I bought a roll of Tyvek sheeting for a special project. It was completely the wrong answer for that project, but that’s a subject of a different post.


Obviously, I still have the rest of the roll. We’ve found it is useful for all sorts of things. We’ve used it to protect the dining room table while soldering:


We’ve used it to protect the table during massive cookie baking exercises this Christmas:

Finally, we used it yesterday to protect the floor for painting.

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Tyvek is awesome. Well, when you actually cover things with it.