My tent went from dry to soaked in one night

Used that Sil-Net seam sealer on my old REI tent a month ago. Looked great at first. Then we got hammered by a storm up near Lake Tahoe. Water came right through the taped seams anyway. Wasted 6 hours of a 3 day trip drying gear. Anyone else have seam sealer fail on them like that?

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spencer_thomas44mo ago

Figured it was operator error in my case too, not gonna lie.

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ruby_murphy4mo ago

Figured I'd chime in here. I'm not convinced the sealer was the real problem. More likely you didn't get the seams completely clean and dry before applying it. I've used that stuff on a few old tents and it's held up fine when I took my time with the prep.

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