Last night, suggested to the wife to roll around in some oatmeal. Been months since we got messy so she agreed. I ran to price rite for quick oats and cake batter, but they had no shaving cream. Went to Target, got shaving cream and a 66inch inflatable kiddie pool. I checked the home improvement isle and they had 10ftx20ft plastic tarps. I was psyched- don't have to make an additional stop at lowes or home depot for the tarp, and I was excited to finally have a "WAM pool" to use for our occasional messy fun. Blended 8 lbs of quick oats, mixed with 4 gallons of hot water, made 9 shaving cream and cake batter pies, inflated the pool and stretched the tarp.

We hopped in and went to town. It was fantastic!!! She was wearing electric blue satin string bikini panties which I was filling with warm slippery oatmeal while she rode my face and jerked me off. I came HARD.

After, she jumped in the shower first then me. I got out and folded the tarp up, twisted it and started to lift it into a heavy duty garbage bag.
BLOWOUT!!!
The tarp completely failed and spilled into the pool. No big deal, I pierced the inlated rings and wrapped up the entire pool for disposal, but that would have been a NIGHTMARE if the tarp was on the rug like usual!!! And I was sad to see the new pool go so fast.

So FYI, DON'T use these tarps if you like to wrap up the mess for disposal!

https://www.target.com/p/bestt-liebco-drop-cloth-10-x-20/-/A-52087306#lnk=newtab

That's not a tarp though, it's a drop cloth. Drop cloths are typically used for less heavy-duty situations like painting a room. A tarp is designed for more rugged situations where the durability of the material will be important.

For example:

This is a 2mm-thick drop cloth, designed for keeping paint off a carpet:
https://www.amazon.com/TopSoon-Heavy-Paint-Plastic-Purpose/dp/B06WVGTTSV/

This is a 5mm-thick tarp, which is designed for things like camping, where durability is the primary concern:
https://www.amazon.com/Lightweight-Outdoor-Hanjet-Handles-Waterproof/dp/B015QWJ6OW/

What you bought was 5 times thinner than the above tarp, and half as thick as the drop cloth. This is more a lesson about buying the correct thickness than about any particular brand.

As a personal rule, I never use anything less than 3 mil (usually try to use 4 mil when I can find it cheap enough), and when getting extra messy will double up and put a second layer below, just in case of either a tear during play in the top one, or your "blowout" situation. Rarely necessary for either issue, but when it is, it's a major lifesaver.

But yeah, never a bad idea to offer up warnings based on lessons learned the hard way.

Right on Johnny, I've used the following brands in 1 Mil thickness for more than 10 years and NEVER had a single leak/tear/rip. The pic here is about 4 gallons of thick chocolate cake batter.



http://www.homedepot.com/p/HDX-10-ft-x-20-ft-1-mil-Drop-Cloth-DCHD1020-1/204711649
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Plastic-Drop-Cloth-Common-10-ft-x-20-ft-Actual-10-ft-x-20-ft/4712689

There was a guy once who discovered a hole in his tarp after a WAM session. He lifted it up and found a bible. If it wasn't for that bible the gunge would have gone right through onto the carpet!

We used to line the floor with dust sheets from the DIY stores, but about ten years ago they all switched to a cheaper kind that tear as soon as you look at them - I've had ones tear as we were unfolding them - so we gave up and just hose and sweep the floor at the end of each session. However recently I noticed that B&Q are now doing two different kinds of dust sheets, "high density" and "low density". Counter-intuitively the high density ones are the useless cheap ones they've had for a decade, but the low density ones appear to be the much stronger old-style ones we used to use. Possibly worth being aware of for anyone wamming in hotels or other venues where just hosing it all out via the dungeon drain isn't an option.

We use decorators' plastic lined cotton dust sheets on the floor. They're just as effective as decent tarps, cost roughly the same from trade outlets, but they're non-slip, softer and can be put in a washing machine. Tarps are tedious to clean and too costly to throw away every time. Decorators' polythene dust sheet on a roll on walls and ceilings (out of camera shot) fabric drapes in shot - which again, can be put in a washing machine. Sessions are on a mop clean floor. Never carpets.