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A5505
Screen House Pro Vehicle Connector Full Instructions
Usage, Wear and Tear
details on the usage, wear and tear for your product
Wear, Tear and Usage
Continued from previous page.
• Colour changing
: Similar to fading, all polyester materials used outdoors may be affected by
colour changing. This is down to the amount of sun they receive whilst out, the atmospheric
conditions at the time and other external factors. Colour changing is only cosmetic and does
not affect the performance of your screen house.
• U.V. Degradation
: Over time all polyester materials will break down and become brittle. This
is down to the effect the sun has on the material. Your screen house is protected against this
with its advanced U.V. coating, but this protection does break down over time. The time it
takes will completely depend upon the weather conditions when used, such as the suns heat,
cloud cover, shade and others. This is a natural process that cannot be stopped, but you
can protect against it by regular cleaning and re-proofing (listed in the care and cleaning
instructions).
• Condensation
: Condensation is a natural process where moisture from the ground is
drawn up and collects on the roof or sides or your screen house. Whilst this is kept to a very
minimum thanks to the mesh side on your screen house, you may still get some on the roof
during certain conditions. This will be made worse if you use the optional side walls and keep
these side walls closed as they prevent air flow and can increase condensation.
• Waterproofing
: Whilst the roof on this screen house is waterproof the screen house itself
is not water tight. The sides on the screen house are not waterproof, even when using the
optional side walls the screen house is not water tight. In the event of rain, some water
may well get into the screen house. Over time the waterproof coating of the material
can deteriorate. This can be repaired by the use of a re-proofing spray as listed in the
maintenance section of the instructions.
• Weathering
: The waterproof nature of the screen house roof may be affected by a process
called weathering. Weathering is a process where the Screen House may seem to leak when
first used in the rain. When you sew a seam into any material you make a hole in the material
and then put a thread of cotton though this hole. Obviously this hole will leak water initially.
The weathering process is around the cotton thread. When the cotton thread gets wet it
expands and fills the hole made when the material was sewn together. When the cotton
thread then drys is shrinks back, but never to the same size it was initially. This process
happens a few times and eventually the thread stops expanding and shrinking, but will have
sealed the hole up. This whole process is called weathering and is the final process that
makes your Screen House roof waterproof.
