GustBuster SunBlok Umbrella Review
Product Description
Ideal for lounging on the beach, going to outdoor concerts, or eating at a picnic, the GustBuster SunBlok umbrella will keep you cool as the rays beat down. The umbrella–which has been featured on CNN, GoodDay NY, Regis and Kathy Lee, and Talk Soup–is outfitted with a patented SunBlok coating that provides optimum skin protection, blocking 96 percent of harmful UVA and UVB rays. At the same time, the umbrella incorporates all the patented and exclusive GustBuster construction and performance technologies, including a technology that allows wind to pass through the umbrella while you stay dry. Wind-tested by the College of Aeronautics to 55-plus miles per hour, the umbrella opens to 58 inches and offers a lifetime warranty.
GustBuster SunBlok Umbrella Review
I ordered this umbrella with free shipping last week and it arrived by US Mail just three days later, delivered intact in a reasonably stout triangle tube box. Seems substantial and well built with a firm rubber grip and a few plastic parts. Exterior is a very reflective silver coated fabric and the underside (not apparent in the Amazon site product photos) is black. Appears to be the same Gustbuster umbrella sold as the UV blocker. Literature that came with this umbrella claims it cuts out 95% of UV light. My copy is about 50 inches at its widest point to point diameter–not as advertised, but entirely adequate for rain or hot sun. Ought to last a very long time if well cared for. It opens and closes easily in a sort of robust fashion and is easily secured with its attached velcro straps and the separate black fabric sheath.
It has been a very hot July in SW Montana this year–just above or below 100 degrees every day. The daily walk of several miles along county roads to the post offce was becoming a physical ordeal–the return leg in the hot sun leaving me simply sapped. As a matter of physics, a reflective umbrella seemed like a good idea after experimenting with my old oversize rain umbrella. More than the hot air and heat reflecting up from the ground, it is the direct solar imput falling on head and all that threatens to reduce one to a grease spot when out wandering too long in savagely hot days. Reflecting most of those maddening photons back into space to deliver their energy elswhere seemed a remarkably simple and useful solution.
Well, this Gustbuster silver umbrella works great, as if carrying your own efficient little shade tree and blocking all the heating rays regardless the intensity of the sun. All in all, I’m very satisfied with this umbrella, both as a rain and sun shield. Does unsettle the horses along the way.
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