[Olivia Smith]

Do those big blue 200L drums hold up to being stacked outside under a sunshade in Ajman

So I’m finally getting around to organizing the back lot behind our workshop because right now it’s just a chaos of mismatched buckets and torn sacks of powder that the birds keep getting into and my landlord is starting to make noise about it being an eyesore from the road, and I figured buying a bunch of uniform large plastic drum containers for storage UAE would at least make the place look somewhat professional even if the contents are still just random granules and spare parts. I was scrolling through Crateco’s selection and they’ve got the open top ones with the lever lock rings and the closed head ones and I honestly can’t decide which makes more sense for stuff I need to access semi regularly without wrestling a bung wrench every single time, plus I’m a bit concerned about how the plastic handles being stacked two or three high under just a basic sunshade in this weather because the heat in July and August is brutal and I’ve seen cheaper barrels get all soft and deformed around the middle after a season out there. If anyone around the Ajman industrial area has been using these for a while can you tell me if the lids stay sealed against the fine dust that blows in every time there’s a shamal, because I’d hate to invest in all this only to open one up in a few months and find my material full of grit. Also curious if the blue color fades to that weird chalky white or if it actually holds its color okay under UV, not that it matters for function but I don’t want the place looking like a junkyard again after one summer.

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