Neoair deck repair

I guess I should add it won’t hold air, there’s a half inch tear in the deck adjacent to the valve.

It looks like you have enough sound material for a patch to bridge to the shoulder of the valve. (The photobucket logo makes it hard to tell. A better pic would help.)  Make the rest of it big enough to cover the tear plus 1/2 inch. Clean it well with alcohol. Glue it on with any air matt repair glue.

thanks for the response.  I did a bit of searching and found self adhesive patches, and liquid adhesives like seam grip.  Your response suggests a particular patch (which one) and then seam grip presumably?

There does seem to be enough material to cover the hole, the gorilla glue tape held fine for 18 hours, including 9 of me laying on it.  Just didn’t seem to be the long term answer.

another attempt at the picture:

If it were mine I’d cover the tear with a thin layer of aquaseal, then place one of the small circle tenacious patches on top with a little more aquaseal around the edges. It looks like the plastic ring from the inside of the valve has worn through the fabric. You might want to try storing it differently to keep from putting more wear in the same area.

thanks for the specific response Brian.  I loaned my pad to my son, and the next time I used it I found this tear.  I will say its always difficult to store/transport the pad without the valve sticking out or into another part of the mattress.  I definitely agree, it would be better f the valve were different, recessed somehow.

Because of this valve configuration I would like to patch all the way around the valve.  As long as I’m repairing it I would like to prevent that failure along a different part of the valve.  I was thinking a big donut shaped patch that goes all the way around the valve.

I just dug around a bit, and found aquaseal and tenacious tape.  The tape is wide enough that I could make a donut sized patch.  The tape is old, but a test sample seems to stick well to the fabric.  Looks like problem solved, thanks again.