FAQs

Flex-Guard is a unique, permeable, Multi-Beneficial, high performance crack isolation sheeting. Flex-Guard does not need a primer. It is Self-Adhering and very fast and easy to install. It maybe used for interior or exterior installations. .

Since 1992

1. Superior Crack Isolation. Isolates up to 3/8" lateral subfloor movement with full floor installations.
2. Permeable. Helps eliminate moisture in the home. Get rid of the water, you get rid of moisture problems. See PDF articles.
3. LifeTime Fracture Free Warranty. You may use your favorite ANSI 118.4 or ANSI 118.11 or fulfilling reuqirements for your tile.
4. Very Fast to Install. No primer is needed. Keep more of your money. Save on materials and labor costs.
6. With a 50 pound floor roller or the flat side of your trowel, apply pressure to the top side of the fabric to bond in place.

After concrete cures there typically remains 2-3 pounds of water PER SQUARE FEET! 1,000SF = 2-3000lbs of water. That is just the 'water of convienence" at remains, even if a vapor barrier under the concrete slab. This is really not good if there is NOT a vapor barrier UNDER the slab. If with vapor barrier and a hard trowel concrete fininsh, it may months or years to migrate into walls.

Good question. Amazingly, the question has been largely avoided or none existant. The primary goal over the years was to stop floor tiles cracking due to horizontal movement in the sub-floor. Migration of moisture to the edge of a waterproof membrane has been ignored for decades. Sealing the surface of a concrete slab in a house is NOT a good idea, unless you have a need for for top down waterproofing. Most membranes are not designed to upward moisture or vapor.

Moisture migration into walls, baseboards, cabinets drywall or adjacent flooring adds to the millions and millions of dollars of loss per year. What seemed to be a "great idea" of wateproofing the surface with materials that were designed for other applications in buiding industry. Many of the products fail at very low MVT (Moisture Vapor Transmission of 2-5lbs/24hr/1,000SF. A "normal" tile installation is usuall not affected by 10-15lbs/24hrs/1,000SF. Flex-Guard is typcially +30lbs/24hrs/1,000. The purpose is to allow evaporation and not moisture forming condensation to liquid water that can migrate. Moisture testing is still advisible. An ideal compatible system is with vapor barrier under the slab and Flex-Guard on the surface!

Very Fast! on a clean, dry surface 500 can be installed and ready for tile in about 15-20 minutes or less! See video here;

YES! We have a LifteTime perfornance gurantee. Flex-Guard will isolate lateral movement of the substrate up to 3/8" for full floor installations. Other competitors now use my terminalogy, but most the time the fine print is just a "product defect warranty" and not a Performance Warranty.

Do not overlap the material, just butt the seams together.

Flex-Guard and Speed-Flex were designed to be primerless.

Since 1992. Many millions of Flex-Guard crack isolation has been installed across the united stateshelp.html.