Fix your Peeling Flip flops or shoes

The other day my wife was complaining about her favorite pair of flip flops started to peel apart. So i decided to fix them for her and half way through i thought it would make a great instructable. This pair of flip flops were starting to peel all around the edges, I had already fixed a few spots before taking pictures.

After a while shoes tend to start to fall apart. Many times its parts that are not stitched but glued. Well its not that hard to fix.

Step 1 Things you need

Things you need

-shoes/flip-flops that are peeling or separating.
- Contact cement
- q-tips (or cheap small paintbrush)

Comments

[mfitzgerald]

As a professional cobbler I can tell you to use flexibile cement such as Barge. Crazy glues, super glues, contact cement harden when dry. Then they become brittle. Shoe Goo is messy and clear has a long drying time. It's hard to remove from your fingers also. Pick a flexibile rubber cement. Brand name isn't important. Remember though that a lot of footwear is made of man made materials and is non-porous. You need special vinyl cement such as is used to patch vinyl pool liners.

[RaisedByRobots]

Thanks, I've been wondering what sort of glue to use when those shoe inserts work their way out of the shoe and start sliding around inside them - maddening.

[lycoris3]

ik! so very bad for ur feet 2.....gives me blisters.

[CapnChkn]

Shoe Goop! I've never had any luck with Contact Cement.

[hominid]

Hmmm. I reckon this shows the way to do it correctly. Simple but didactic. 'on Ya!

[sk8ter20art]

yeah it does makes a huge difference when you use this kind of glue correctly. Most people don't read the directions and just use it like regular glue.

[yeaitskimmel]

it should just be one step "glue it"

[piks]

This is a great instructable, why don't you post it a second time under the title 'Using contact adhesive correctly'. I spent my entire childhood using contact adhesive like any other glue until my first job when I was shown how to use it properly!