The logo on my waterproof jacket… isn’t waterproof
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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Ahhh a perfect seal….lets poke a needle thru it….
Won’t lie, when I saw this I thought it was a bedsheet and my reaction was “damn, good for you lad”
I work in the decoration industry, this is normal. The jacket may be seam sealed and waterproof, but if you embroider through the jacket that section will let water through, because you’re poking thousands of holes in it. You’d have to seal the back of the embroidered section with a special patch to make that part waterproof/Resistant too.
Of course. I absolutely hate it when companies do this. Maybe try applying some waterproofing spray to the embroidery, but it will likely still leak.
Happened to my friend’s homemade Mario costume in 4rd grade.
The rain seeped through the holes from the staple connecting the laminated ‘M logo’ to the hat. Water made the ink bleed and the colors spread onto each other.
He was so disappointed.
Edit: it was a homemade Halloween* costume.
If this is a uniform, it’s likely that someone has bought a garment that isn’t designed to be embroidered and said ‘screw it I’ll embroidered it anyway’.
Generally speaking, waterproof garments that are designed for uniform will have an embroidery pocket.
In future, get your bosses should do a transfer or buy a garment made to be a uniform.
Just put a piece of waterproof tape on the back
That is hilarious. XD
You have a few options!
The simplest is using “seam tape” – this is an iron-on tape usually used for (wait for it!) waterproofing seams., but you could put a few overlapping layers on the back of this.
The problem with this is that water will soak into the threads and behind the sealed pocket you create with the tape, but it will at least keep you dry.
Adding a waterproofing spray to the threads before seam taping it up would probably help quite a bit here.
If you have the time and want to _really_ fix it – your best bet is to remove the logo and put a waterproof patch over (and maybe under) it.
What a nuisance though… It’s meant to be waterproof FFS! 🤣 _Whhhhhyyyyy_ would you poke lots of holes in your waterproof layer if you didn’t have to 🤣🤣🤣
the Achilles’ heel
Looks more like a water resistant jacket. And not saying this to be funny. But you can see the seam below the logo and it isn’t sealed. It’s double stitched. But not taped sealed. Meaning i don’t believe this was meant to be 100% waterproof.
Lmao. Ok.. that kinda sucks but it’s also hilarious. 😭
rub a candle over the inside and outside of the logo then heat it to melt. boom waterproof
Well, that’s some ironic branding right there.
Temu.
Put a thin layer of epoxy behind the patch
Having multiple outdoor softshell or other, “waterproof” jacket. Cheaper ones are not waterproof at the threads at all, my sweat usually hit through during an extended uphill session.
Better ones have waterproof/sealead threading and glued/printed logos.
The case of the Leaky Logo, well done Watson!
Go to Walmart and buy some seam sealer in the camping section. Brush it on one the stitching from the inside. That’ll stop that. But yeah, the manufacturer not caring that the needle penetrations making it non waterproof is pretty shitty.
Name and shame!
there’s really an exception to everything
Well, your waterproof jacket also doesn’t have taped seams so I’m assuming it isn’t rated as waterproof and instead, just water repellent. The seams (and logo stitching) would be taped and sealed in a proper waterproof jacket.
No shit, don’t buy waterproof with embroidery
I have a company supplied raincoat that they embroidered a flag on the shoulder and the company logo on. First use I got soaked!
I dissolved some silicone sealant in some mineral spirits so I could soak some into the threads with a small paintbrush and it totally made it waterproof again. It made it just slightly darker in color but once dry you can’t tell.
I got the idea from a YouTube video about making canvas waterproof.
I’d just spray it down with water proof sealant. Silicone? Let it cure and it is what it is. Hemming through something water proof is wild lol for such a large logo lol and not sealing it from behind.
Feels like some flexseal on the back might help
There’s actually a special embroidery backing that is supposed to be stuck on the back of something like that to prevent the very problem you have. That’s poor workmanship for sure.
OP learns what embroidery is.
It’s a waterproof Jacket not a waterproof jacket and logo
Advertising companies can be devious
Still feel like a billionaire? Maybe it’s time to stop shopping on temu.
Is that Arc’teryx? You poor thing I don’t wanna know how much you spent on that just to have it leak like that, my condolences.
It’s a waterproof Jacket not a waterproof jacket and logo
Advertising companies can be devious
Glad my daughter is getting out to the side while her mom gets chummed on . Everyone’s so happy they have this hoe