[quest4quiet]

I'm sitting here w/chunker on my lap and I look down and spy a hole starting around one of the snaps in his Loveybums wool. What do I do? How do I fix it? It's only a few months old...is this normal? Someone reassure me...please before I cry

 

[poisonedapple]

Im not sure, I have no knowledge in this area, but theres another

to make you feel better. Id email the owner of loveybums to ask her about it.

 

[KayleeZoo]

Email the wahm. My Fuz Easy cover just came back from having a rip-out snap problem and another snap ripped completely out yesterday!

It's only a couple months old, too. I don't know what else to tell ya- hopefully the wahm will fix it.

 

[quest4quiet]

I think I will e-mail her. I thought maybe it had been to long. Thanks for the hugs, mamas. Kayleezoo-that sucks about your fuz

 

[momsmyjob]

I hope you get it fixed!

 

[kimberlylibby]

Wool Jersey can be quite tender, it seems.

She can probably take the snap off, and put a reinforcer behind it and put it back on.... but it will have a "patch" under it, does that make sense??

I dread the day it happens to a diaper of mine.... so far I've just lost ONE snap and it was on a Fuzzibunz

 

[foxytocin]

I'm having the same trouble with felted wool covers. I take very good care of them, but I guess I'm unlucky....I've had 2 with holes now. The hole develops right behind an outermost snap. The wahm replaced the first of my covers with a hole for me with one with reinforced snaps, no problem. She then also sent 2 more reinforced covers just in case the 2 other non-reinforced covers I had left developed problems. Just in case. Wonderful customer service from her. But now one of the replacement reinforced covers is developing a hole in the exact same place. What a bummer. I'll let the wahm know, but I don't know how many times I can reasonably expect her to replace a cover.
Makes you think that maybe aplix is the answer instead of snaps with wool? Seems like it would put less stress on the fabric? Maybe I'm wrong. I was thinking that perhaps the felted wool just isn't always thick enough to handle the stress, but with your post, it looks like the problem happens with jersey as well. I wonder how prevalent the problem is with wool and snaps?

I figure it's in everyone's best interest to let manufacturers/wahms know when you have a product of their's that doesn't perform up to snuff. How else will the manufacturer know they've got a problem? And it gives the manufacturer a chance to build better relationships with their customers.

 

[PatchyMama]

its usually not the thickness of the wool (tho more often times it happens with light weight wool first) but the qualities of the wool. Often times lightweight wool is not knit as tightly as something as say wool flannel.. its also very stretchy. That stretch means that every time you use a snap, you are stretching a bit of the fabric away from the snap, eventually leading to a hole. Even reinforced snaps will have this happen unless its reinforced with something that isnt stretchy and will keep the fabric from stretching in the snap area.

Most WAHMs dont mind fixing the snaps as its not a big deal