A Brief Guide To Selecting Tapes for Builder Board

One of the most common products that we recommend seaming together is Builder Board. It’s standard procedure to seam Builder Board together, so much so we also offer Builder Board Tape. This tape features a very high level of adhesion and is very durable. This adhesion level on this tape makes it unsafe to be used directly on surfaces. It is specifically designed to seam two pieces of board together. It will likely leave sticky, hard to remove, residue behind and in some cases, it could strip a layer off of your surfaces. Tapes with this high of an adhesion level are often referred to as “seam tapes” in the surface protection industry. This is because the aggressive adhesive is perfect for firmly holding your board in place. This becomes a problem at the edges of your surface protection area. Your surface protection products will need to be taped to the ground or wall to create a complete seal, but of course you won’t be able to do this with a seam tape. For this you will need an “anchor tape”, which often feature a less destructive amount of adhesion. Anchor tapes include, but are not limited to, Painter’s Grade Blue Tape, Masking Tape, and Polyethylene (PE) Tape. It is important to use high quality anchor tapes, because the tape will need to firmly adhere the board to the surrounding surfaces and needs to provide an adequate amount durability not to tear or become compromised in the middle of a job.