the only piling wrap in the world that barnacles, oysters and zebra mussels will not grow on.
MAKE YOUR DOCK LOOK BEAUTIFUL
Crustaceans attached to your dock pilings and can cause damage, injury and death. Scrape these crustaceans off one last time, attach Barnacle-Shield and they will not grow back. We back this promise with a 5-year warranty.
BARNACLES LOVE PLASTIC WRAP
If you wrapped you pilings with plastic wrap, you only solved the boring worm problem. Barnacles and oysters will still attach to plastic wrap.
MEASURE YOUR PILINGS
Measure the circumference of your piling at the widest point. Select your barnacle shield sheet size based on this measurement. The length 'L' allows for at least 3" of overlap when securing Barnacle-Shield to your piling.
BARNACLE-SHIELD 36" WIDE SHEETS
BARNACLE-SHIELD 60" WIDE SHEETS
ATTACHING TO WOOD PILINGS
We recommend silicone bronze nails on 3" spacing when attaching Barnacle-Shield to your wooden dock pilings. There are 12 nails needed for the 36" wide wrap and 20 for the 60" wide wrap.
Silicone bronze nail #10 x 1.25" Part Number SBN10X1.25
ATTACHING TO CONCRETE PILINGS
Contact us if you are attaching Barnacle-Shield to concrete pilings.
WHY WE SELL BARNACLE-SHIELD BY THE SHEET AND NOT BT THE ROLL
The simple application of mesh on a bare piling or any other object subject to crustacean growth is one of the many features covered by our several patent applications. However, because of the very difficult handling requirements of working with the mesh, let alone the enhanced difficulty of being in the water, we do not wrap with bare mesh. Also, simply nailing mesh to a piling tends to fray the mesh causing it to detach from the piling.
Because barnacles will grow on anything except our mesh, we envelop the HDPE sheet on 3 sides with our mesh.
We then attach the mesh to the HDPE sheet by ultrasonically welding it on one end. This keeps the mesh in place both during and after installation while exposing the minimum amount of plastic edge for barnacle attachment. The remaining two sides are not welded so that the mesh/ plastic interface is free to slip and adjust as the piling is wrapped.
The reason for this configuration is not just to keep the HDPE sheet covered and make installation easier but also to allow the sheet to move relative to the mesh as a piling is wrapped. Since the HDPE sheet wraps a smaller diameter around the piling than the mesh does, the mesh pulls back as smaller and smaller diameters are wrapped. If this movement were not allowed, the tension of the mesh would cause the HDPE sheet to buckle.