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Talking to a flooring inspector in Phoenix made me double-check my seaming tape
He was looking at a 2-year-old glue-down job I did and pointed out a slight ridge forming along a seam, saying 'That's not the carpet relaxing, that's adhesive failure starting from the center.' I always thought the edges were the weak spot, but now I'm checking the whole tape strip before I roll. Anyone else had a seam fail from the middle out?
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the_nina6mo ago
Wait, isn't that ridge usually from the tape not being fully embedded? I've seen that happen when the adhesive doesn't get pressed into the backing right down the middle.
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henry6046mo ago
Oh wow, you just blew my mind. I always thought that ridge was from the tape being too thick or something. But you saying it's from not pressing the middle down makes total sense now. I just checked a roll I have with that issue, and the adhesive strip is totally not stuck in the center. That explains everything. I'm never looking at tape the same way again.
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the_sam6mo ago
My buddy had this exact problem last week. He was packing boxes for a move and kept getting that stupid ridge on every piece of tape. Drove him nuts. He was about to blame the whole roll until I told him to press the middle strip down hard, like @henry604 said. Total game changer. He went back and fixed all the messed up pieces. Turns out he was just slapping the tape on too fast.
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