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Tape Offers Quick, Easy Drywall Fix
Stress Crack Tape is a simple way to fix drywall cracks. Simply clean the surface, smooth the tape over the crack or imperfection and paint. Or, for a more finished look, skim the tape edge lightly with drywall joint compound.
  “The material is very thin, but tough and strong. You can’t punch your thumb through it,” says former painter Jerry Brower, who developed the tape for contractors and do-it-yourselfers. The feathered edges help it blend in, especially on textured walls. The patented, U.S-made material flexes with the crack and stays intact.
  Stress Crack Tape comes in rolls: $21.68 (including shipping) for a 50-ft. roll of 2-in. tape (textured or smooth) that can be used on inside and outside corners, $29.76 for 100 ft. of narrower 1 1/2-in. wide tape, and other lengths and widths. A variety of packages of strips and patches are also available to cover bad cuts around things such as switch plates and cable connections as well as holes up to 3 in. in diameter.
  Brower noted that customers come up with other uses for the tape as well. Someone ordered rolls to cover paneling seams so that he could paint over it and have a level surface.
  Stress Crack Tape is available through Brower’s StepSaver Products website, at Home Depot and through Sherman Williams retailers.
  Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, StepSaver Products, 6401 Northwest Lincoln Ave., Vancouver, Wash. 98663 (ph 888 778-4537; www.stepsavers.com).



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2011 - Volume #35, Issue #6