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The sheet I was referring to is a black or dark gray. It is sometimes used by gardeners that put it on top of mulch and then cut holes in it to plant. It supposedly keeps down "weeds" from growing between the sets. I have seen the stuff used under concrete to prevent tree roots getting where they shouldn't. It's expensive, certainly out of my reach. I just used sheet plastic to stop ground moisture and called it good enough. It wasn't, but that's another story.
The sand ground in that part of Florida is highly corrosive. Some of it is the residual salt that has gotten into the sand. The St John's river is still brackish toward Ocala. And some is just the dirt that dislikes metal. Whether acidic or whatever, metal rusts fast. Many old timers used a strip of flashing metal for ground contact, with the "good" siding stopping about 6 inches up. There was an old fellow up around Bostwick. . . but he was in his 80s in '75. Before they built the nuke plant south of Green Cove.
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The sand ground in that part of Florida is highly corrosive. Some of it is the residual salt that has gotten into the sand. The St John's river is still brackish toward Ocala. And some is just the dirt that dislikes metal. Whether acidic or whatever, metal rusts fast. Many old timers used a strip of flashing metal for ground contact, with the "good" siding stopping about 6 inches up. There was an old fellow up around Bostwick. . . but he was in his 80s in '75. Before they built the nuke plant south of Green Cove.
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