Alpha Systems AlphaFleece Tape for Wood Seaming on RVs - 90' x 3" x 1/32" Thick

Video Transcript for Alpha Systems Wood Seaming on RVs AlphaFleece Tape Review

Hey everyone. Shane here at etrailer.com. Today, we're gonna be taking a look at the Alpha Fleece Seam Tape. This is gonna be great for, for instance like what we're doing here, where we're replacing a roof on a camper and when you start taking off that old membrane, some of your seam tape is gonna come off as well. So then you're gonna have to replace that before you put the new membrane on. You want to make sure that all of your joints are sealed very well so water can not get in between your wood and your siding and create mold and mildew on the inside of your installation.

This is gonna be a fleece material with a sticky side on it. So, the area that you're putting it it'll help it adhere to it. It's gonna be great for your seams like we have here, joints like your two boards here and also your end caps. It's gonna adhere to wood, metal, fiberboard, ISO board and also concrete. It's gonna come in a 90 foot roll, three foot wide and 1/32 inch thick.

Now keep in mind with this being a fleece material, it does absorb moisture. So wherever you're gonna be putting it, make sure it's somewhere where you can add sealant to it or paint that way it doesn't wick. And when you compare this to some of the other seam type adhesives that you are gonna be using, or that you could be using, for instance like butyl tape, acrylic or asphalt based adhesives, this fleece material here is gonna have a longer life cycle. So, highly recommend it You can find it here at etrailer. It's gonna make the job really easy when you go to seal all of your edges, seams or anything else.

So once you have the outside edge of your camper cleaned off all the extra butyl tape, anything like that, we can come back and we can install our seam two. I've cut mine in sections like this, it makes it a little bit easier to install rather than trying to hold the roll and go down the whole edge of the camper. One thing we got to keep in mind is because we are putting this from the top to this outside edge when we go to put our new membrane on our membrane has to stick to something on this side and then we'll pop a staple in it. This being fleece, the butyl tape will not stick to this. So we have to make sure we stay high enough that when we put the butyl tape on, it actually sticks to the side, but still goes over top of the edge of the fleece, if it makes sense.

And we'll show you that here in just a minute. So we're gonna take our tape and we'll just peel it off like this. Make sure your area's clean. So, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna stay up towards the top edge a little bit. I might be down maybe half inch to an inch down probably closer to half, I would say. And we're just gonna go down the side and stick the tape on. Can be a little trying until you get started with it. We're gonna take this and it will wrap on top like that. Just work your way from one end to the other. Just kind of press it into place. We're gonna do that from one end to the other on both sides of the camper, anywhere you need to cover up a seam. Once you get your seams covered up just along this outside edge, as I mentioned, we're gonna have to put butyl tape on this outside so when we put our new membrane on and we pull it over, to kind of stretch it over to keep it tight we can stick it right to the butyl tape, pop a staple in it and then we'll hold it in place and keep our membrane from kind of bunching up into the center. Once you have all your seam tape in place, then we're gonna come back and we're gonna put the butyl tape on. The first line of butyl tape, we're gonna be taking it up to the top edge of this panel. So right up here is where we're gonna place it or place the edge. We're not gonna peel off the tape or the paper yet. Not until we get our top up, we get our ceiling on top, at least get the top of it rolled out, and then we can come back and we can roll the flap up, pull this off, pull our top down, kind of stretch it, stick it to it, pop a staple in it, that'll keep it taut. We wanna make sure we do this around any of the edges that require butyl tape. Most of the time it is gonna be this side and the opposite side; driver and passenger side of the camper. That's gonna do it for look at an installation of the Alpha Systems, Alpha Fleece Seam Tape..