Double sided outdoor tape

Snoopp · ‎02-02-2015

Has anyone used this on brick? I want to use it and am wondering if it will be difficult to remove. Anyone know?

shaggygirl · ‎11-24-2011

I have a ground level enclosed porch (used to be all screened)) with two doors leading outside. One onto cement the other onto brick. I have the tape in front of both doors holding down a small outdoor type rug, that fake very short grassy kind. The one on the cement is still holding good in spite of rain/snow/heat. The tape holding the one on the brick is starting to come quite loose. I put it down last summer and it made it through last winter but I can see it's time to pull it up. Where the tape is loose the brick doesn't show any signs of weirdness. But, I had only placed it all around where the edges of the rugs lay. I don't think you'll have any problems removing it when it's time......if in fact it sticks. Try it on just 3 or 4 bricks for awhile and see how it goes. Just make sure they are clean and dry when you do it.

I can also tell you that about a hundred years ago.....okay I'm exaggerating.......but long long ago we had put indoor outdoor carpeting in the garage, but not the grassy kind, it kinda looks like heavy duty felt. My husband did that because the cracks in the cement floor bugged him. It's a 2 car garage and thus he had to cut two big pieces and butt them against each other. That tape has been holding those two pieces together and to the floor since OMG at least 25 years in spite of driving in with wet tires from rain and snow covered cars melting on it all these years.

When people drive by and see my garage doors up and me vaccuming the floor they probably wonder what the blazes is she doing? Who uses a vac on their garage floor, probably just me. I have an old Oreck out there just for that.

Snoopp · ‎02-02-2015

I vacuum in the garage too! We have a few door mats in there for muddy feet.

shaggygirl · ‎11-24-2011

@Snoopp wrote:
I vacuum in the garage too! We have a few door mats in there for muddy feet.

@Snoopp At least yours is only a few door mats. Mine is the entire floor of the 2 car garage. Only bad thing is lots of sand from the plows over the winter comes in on the tires.....and worse the salt they put down makes streaks on it where the tires pick it up. Shouldn't complain though, at least there IS a garage.

novamc1 · ‎07-02-2015

Count me in as another homeowner who has a vacuum cleaner dedicated to sweeping the garage, plus the heavy-duty mats at front and back-door entries.

@shaggygirl.....We recently hired a company to cover our concrete garage/frontdoor/backdoor porch surfaces with an easy-to-clean, heavy-duty epoxy coating,

It works great---even better than having a vacuum cleaner handy.

We had a similar garage-floor coating at our previous house. It can be hosed off if necessary, mopped or swept out with a broom or a vacuum, wiped up with a paper towel if a car happens to leave dirty melted snow or oil, shows no black tire marks when a car comes into the garage.

If anyone doesn't already know about garage- or porch floor coatings, do an online search with those keywords for companies that work in your area.

i wholeheartedly believe the treatment is worth the expense, both for long-term appearance and easy maintenance. You can select from a variety of different colors and textures, too.

shaggygirl · ‎11-24-2011

@novamc1I appreciate you mentioning that. What an excellent idea. I suspect before too much longer that carpeting will need to come up and what a great alternative. Think I'll look into that in the spring, see what it would cost. I have other "things" needing costly fixing between now and then. It's always something! When my husband was alive he was a good fixer of things or at least knew who to call for help if it was something beyond him. Now every job is one for hire. Geez it never ends.

I made myself a sticky note about checking into the epoxy and stuck it with my other sticky notes of "things to get done" lol.

@novamc1 wrote:
Count me in as another homeowner who has a vacuum cleaner dedicated to sweeping the garage, plus the heavy-duty mats at front and back-door entries.

@shaggygirl.....We recently hired a company to cover our concrete garage/frontdoor/backdoor porch surfaces with an easy-to-clean, heavy-duty epoxy coating,

It works great---even better than having a vacuum cleaner handy.

We had a similar garage-floor coating at our previous house. It can be hosed off if necessary, mopped or swept out with a broom or a vacuum, wiped up with a paper towel if a car happens to leave dirty melted snow or oil, shows no black tire marks when a car comes into the garage.

If anyone doesn't already know about garage- or porch floor coatings, do an online search with those keywords for companies that work in your area.

i wholeheartedly believe the treatment is worth the expense, both for long-term appearance and easy maintenance. You can select from a variety of different colors and textures, too.