Therm-a-Rest Camping Mattress Permanent Repair Kit, 4-Hour Cure Time, Includes Adhesive and Instructions

Patched a small scratch hole in an old Thermarest. Followed instructions. It worked. Hole sealed, and has stayed that way for several uses. No issues, no surprises. Plenty of extra left over for other patches - though I don't know how long the solvent will last after it's been opened for first use.

I thought I was going to have to toss my Them-a-rest. This gave it a second life. The air mattress held air for 6 days - never needing a refill - at my son’s scout camp after I had patched it. Highly recommend to patch a Them-a-rest or similar air mattress.

I ended up purchasing 2 kits: the Permanent Home Repair Kit and the Universal Repair kit. Based on reviews, glue dots were preferred. I ordered the Permanent Kit because some photos of the kit appeared to show glue dots however, The Permanent Repair kit does NOT contain glue dots. I ended up purchasing the Universal Kit after the fact which does have glue dots. Here is what each kit contains:Permanent Home Repair kit:4 nylon patches about 2.5 inches dai. (green, brown, black, blue)2 alcohol pads2 tear-aid patches, type A (1 inch square ea.)1 spreader stick1 tube of adhesiveInstructions (this is important and I'll come back to this)Universal Repair Kit:Same as the Permanent Repair Kit with the following exceptions...3 nylon patches rather than 4 (brown, black, blue)3 glue dotsBetter instructionsThe instructions with the Universal Kit tell you what type of patch to use on which mattress. In summary:Use the glue dots and Tear-Aid on all models EXCEPT: Yellow NeoAir, Trail, Trail Scout, LuxuryCamp, and LuxuryMap.For NeoAir, Trail, Trail Scout, you only need the Tear-Aid Type A patch (no glue dot). Both kits have Tear-Aid. Also, you can purchase Tear-Aid Type A patches separately and in larger patch sizes.For the LuxuryCamp, and LuxuryMap, use the nylon circle patches and tube adhesive.The Tear-Aid seems to form a strong seal on the Trail Scout material although I haven't used it in the field yet.Product works great but minus 1 pt because Therm-a-Rest did not mention how/when to use the Tear-Aid in the instructions for the Permanent repair kit even though Tear-Aid was included in the kit. Hopefully the info in this review will help the next person get the kit with the patches they need.Update: recently used the repaired thermarest on a 62 mile backpacking trip. The patch held up great.

Used this to fix a small tear on my Mondoking mattress. I haven't taken the mattress out camping yet, but it appears to have made a very good seal! Only downside is that there was only enough glue provided for 1 full patch.

This patch set is good for repairing inflatable sleeping pads.The price is a little high.

Had a leak in my thermarest air mattress and this product was easy to use, and the repair is holding well. I’ve used my pad 3 times since repair. You need to find the hole (submerge inflated pad in water to find the bubbles that will be made where the leak site is), circle the leak with a pen. Dry the area thoroughly, cut the patch down if needed (Round the corners!), then draw an outline of the patch on the site. Put glue in both the outline and the back of the patch, give them a few seconds to get tacky. Fuse together and place a weight on the repair site. Let cure for a few hours. 👍

The others I cannot say but the type A sealed the thermarest up pretty solid.

Easy to follow directions. I don't fully get the colors they come with. None of them match any of my Therm-a-rest products at all...lol. I own 4 total products from this company, so I feel like I have a great assortment of old and new stuff. So the patches do stick out and don't really blend in. I don't see that being a big deal to 95% of folks that camp, but thought it would be worth mentioning. I am happy that it held really well and was pretty darn simple to fix. I use my thermarest in one of those chair things to sit by the fire. It caught a spark unfortunately and I had a small hold about the size of a pen tip. Fixed that no problem.