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I thought seam sealing was a gimmick until a rep in Tulsa showed me the numbers on a 6 month old stretch
I used to skip the seam sealer on smaller jobs to save 20 minutes and honestly figured nobody would notice either way. Last Tuesday a manufacturer rep named Carla walked me through a claim sheet from a Tulsa apartment complex where 11 of 14 seam failures traced back to unsealed edges after only 6 months of traffic. That one detail flipped my whole routine, and now the $8 tube goes on before the iron even cools. Any of you still skipping it on tight berbers, or is that just me being lazy on Friday afternoons?
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emerym3614d ago
Skipped it for years on tight loops and never had a callback, so I am not buying the panic. That Tulsa sheet is one building with one crew, and for all you know they let the edges sit damp or ran a crummy iron over them. Eleven failures sounds scary until you ask how many seams were in those 14 units total, because 3 that held prove nothing. Seam sealer on berber can actually wick glue up into the face and leave a visible line, which is a bigger problem than a frayed edge nobody sees under a couch. Carla gets paid to sell you $8 tubes, so of course her claim sheet points at the thing she sells. Show me the same numbers from three different complexes with different installers before I change my Friday routine.
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