I ran a test on two different seam sealing methods for a big job in a Tacoma office building

The spec called for hot melt tape on the main corridor, but I had some leftover cold adhesive from another project. I did a 20 foot section with each on the same type of carpet. After six months, the cold adhesive seam started to show a slight ridge when the light hit it just right, while the hot melt section was still flat. The building manager hasn't called about it, but I can see it. For high traffic commercial work, is hot melt tape just the better long term play, or did I maybe mess up the cold adhesive mix?

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bettyh8423d ago

My old foreman swore by hot melt for anything with rolling carts.

the_evan23d ago

My buddy Mike in the parts warehouse had a steel cart that kept losing its rubber wheel. He tried epoxy and it cracked in a week. The maintenance guy finally used a hot glue gun on the wheel hub. That cart rolled for three more years until the whole thing got scrapped. The wheel was still attached when they hauled it off.