Took me 4 hours to fix a seam that should have been a 20 minute job

Had a seam pop open in a bedroom yesterday. Nothing crazy, just a bad glue line. Pulled up the carpet to redo it and found the old installers had used duct tape on the seam tape underneath. Had to scrape all that sticky mess off before I could lay new tape. Four hours for one room. Has anyone else run into weird stuff like that under old carpet jobs?

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3 Comments

the_linda1mo ago

Oh man, I gotta push back a little here. Honestly, four hours sounds like you were being pretty thorough, which is great, but maybe the real issue is you were overthinking it. Duct tape under old seam tape is annoying, sure, but you could have just laid new tape right over it if the surface was smooth enough, or trimmed out the junk and patched it in 20 minutes. Sometimes we make the job bigger than it needs to be because we're too focused on a perfect fix.

the_lee1mo ago

And THAT ladies and gents is how we overcomplicate EVERYTHING these days.

logan_young291mo ago

Wait, hold on now. You're telling me you found duct tape under old seam tape? Like actual duct tape, the silver stuff? That's wild, I've never seen that before. Usually it's just crumbling old paper tape or some sketchy patch job. That sounds like a nightmare to deal with, honestly. I bet you were sitting there wondering what kind of hack did that, right? Duct tape in drywall is just asking for trouble down the road.