If you staple to treated wood, you need stainless steel staples or an equivalent corrosion resistant coating. It would be labeled safe for treated wood. I bought SS T-50 staples from Lowes last year to put up the extra-heavy plastic to our back porch openings making a green room for the winter. But I used a regular squeeze type stapler, an Arrow, I think. The plastic that we used was something like 12-15mil thick or some such; very, very heavy stuff. We will re-use the same pieces that we cut and used last year for this year’s enclosure. One trick that I used was I took regular file folders for office use, cut them into pieces 1” by 2” or 3” to use like gaskets between the plastic and staples to distribute the stress to prevent tearout at the staples. The system worked as planned, with winds blowing against them, we had no(0) staples tearout all winter. Invest in some seriously thick plastic film, our came from Lowes, but it was not with the thin painters drop cloth, it was over in building materials somewhere. Look enough and you will find it. Worth every penny of cost, $10-$12 I think for a big roll.
WE brought in my ghost peppers to the garage. They are bearing so I didn’t want to harm the crop. Boy, are they hot. I have some thats ground to powder about a 1/2” deep in a small medicine bottle. I think that amount would would last a couple of years. Got more on the way, too.
There's an ice cream shop here that does a ghost pepper sundai. If you can eat the whole thing, you get your picture on the wall, and bragging rights.
Thx for the info on the staples for treated wood, and the "gasket" idea to disstribute the stress. The plastic I have is 6 mil. thick. It's from Warp Bros. It's supposed to be for greenhouses, and its' what was recommended for theTexas Prepper's greenhouse.
An excelent idea to distribute the stress from wind on the staples by using gaskets .
Do you get mutiple years usage of the 12-15mil plastic ?
I would imagine that the UV rays would make the plastic brittle and unstable after one winter .