I learned about Flex Seal and thought to myself – hmmm. I thought to myself, well, if it works it could be good, but is it as good as they say it is?
I had a bunch of things that came to mind that I could use it for. The first group of items was the rather long list of “honey do” items that always seem to take forever to get done. The other list of things was things that we wanted to fix, but just didn’t have the money.
For example, our fishing dinghy. It was getting older, and we had so many other things to spend our household fixing budget on, we just couldn’t do them all at once. It’s just how things go – they get left by the wayside because we can’t be spending a few hundred dollars here and there to get everything done.
I wasn’t sure if it would work. I didn’t want a band-aid that would just work a little bit and only give us a few weeks leeway until we had to break down and get repairs don.
But I have to say, I was really impressed with Flex Seal. The first thing we tried it on was the bottom of our boat. After applying it and letting it dry, it formed a nice seal and covering, and our boat was water-ready. The kids have been playing in it all summer now, and it’s really held up. That means I saved the few hundred dollars that they were going to charge me to patch it.
Another thing I used it for was to help with insulation. We have some joints that don’t quite match up and when air gets in, our heating and air conditioning bills go up. I didn’t want to use that spray foam because that stuff puffs out and expands like crazy and although this may sound petty, it looks terrible. I hate having things look like a foam monster took up residence.
The Flex Seal is really easy to target to a specific area and it looks good. It actually smoothes things out o give them an even surface. It makes things look better than they did before, and not just like an ugly stopgap measure. I really appreciate that.
We had a pipe that wasn’t exactly leaking a huge amount, but there were some water drips coming out. We sprayed the Flex Seal on it and the pipe is as good as new and there is no water leaking out anymore. Ka-ching goes the cash register in my head as I add up the cost of the plumber bill we would have had to deal with.
My husband went on the roof and took care of the gutters with it. I’m not exactly sure what he did there, but while he was up there he was able to spray it around the two skylights that we have. I didn’t even realize that we had some openings in there, which would have gotten worse and ended up causing water damage to our roof which would have been hundreds or thousands of dollars to fix depending on when we could have caught it.
I definitely am glad we got the Flex Seal, and it’s helped us a lot.
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