[S_RICHARDSON]

how long do you people use your scrims for before you chuck em?? !!   

[Ian_Giles]

When I was full on trad and using scrims all day long, they would last me the best part of a couple of years before they got dumped.
I usually had about 15 maybe more, and I reckon that I'd only use a couple a day, one wet, one dry, so it took a long time to wear them out.

But there would always be a selection from really new to really old.

therefore I would get new ones often...well I say often, purchase of new scrims was always several months apart.

At one point I bought heavy duty decorators dust sheets, a couple of them, made of irish linen, slightly different to scrim but still the same material.
Cheap to buy and made about 20 or more metre square scrims.

Squeaks also used them, but mine had lasted me so long, by the time I needed to get another sheet, the quality had totally changed, much, much thinner, no good at all.
Squeaks did use them, but he wore out his scrim very quickly, if he reads this thread I am sure he will elaborate.

Ian

[Londoner]

I buy unbleached calico. for the first half a dozen use and wash cycles i just use them on sills. After that I start using them on glass.
The older and tattier they get the better they work. You can tell when they are ready for use on glass because they have gone a nice grey.
Scrim usually starts falling apart but its never too old to use.

Now Im using micro cloth as well and that only gets used for "best" I have had two since early summer and they are still like new