How to mend tear in puffa jacket?

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It’s new and expensive and got caught on a sharp thing- the fluffy down is already starting to come out. What do I do? Not sure if iron on patches will work- worried they’d melt the puffa fabric? And the self adhesive stickers don’t seem likely to be durable enough. Anyone got any suggestions？

Our dog bit through mine - because I left some treats in a pocket. It was a Rab one, and brand new.
I tried an outdoor shop first - but they couldn’t seem to fix it.
A local tailors has patched it very well with a very similar piece of material. I was very pleased with result - probably other people wouldn’t notice and means I can still use the jacket.
So try a tailors/ alteration service. We live in NE Scotland - possibly nowhere near you, otherwise I could recommend where I went.

You could Google invisible menders near you. They can work miracles!

My son got a small tear in a new jacket messing about at school and a local tailor mended it so well you couldn't tell where the repair was. I was very impressed.

Easiest is probably an adhesive pertex patch here. Pertex is the silky fabric that down jackets are usually made of.also here
I have some of these patches on my down jacket which are more than 20 years old (cut them out with rounded corners).

If you live near a branch of Alpkit, many of their shops have "repair stations" for all brands of outdoor wear. here, but I'm not sure which have repair stations

Or you could send it to Scottish Mountain Gear.Here

There’s lots of videos on YouTube showing how to do it yourself. I recently sewed one after watching and was happy with the result. However it was a child’s coat with a splogy pattern which may have helped. It also was on the back of the coat ( allegedly caught on peg in school) which probably makes it just not as visible.

Thank you so much everyone. Does the invisible mending approach mean you can still wear your puffa in showery/wet weather?
Or do you have to be careful because it’s no longer watertight in that area?

I feel as though something like (basically) a big sticking plaster might give the tear area more weatherproofing, but that might not look so great.

Unfortunately it’s an unusual colour so might be a bit tricky to match. Thank you very much for all these leads though, I will look into them.

I’ve used tenacious tape successfully (it’s clear) - it’s not very pretty but not horribly noticeable either and does last - it’s what the montane repair service advised when I ran my new lightweight waterproof through shoulder high brambles 😖

The best thing is to take it to a professional like a seamstress and let them have it fixed. Don’t mess with it yourself.

Could you post a photo of the tear, please?

Tenacious tape was recommended to me by the manufacturer of a jacket I had caught on barbed wire. It is bloody brilliant, has been in place with no lifting despite washing for a couple of years now. Not the prettiest but very effective especially if you are unlikely to get a colour match.

You can buy fabric waterprrofing spray to give the repair a bit more protection. Most waterproof fabrics need a renewing coat anyway. I use the Nixwax range.

You can often sort of put the patch through the tear and then stick it on from the back. You can purchase some Bondaweb and iron it on too. Sometimes I've robbed a scrap of fabric from inside a pocket to get a matching patch.

If the jacket is filled with down/feathers, it's unlikely to be very waterproof anyway.

I've been messing about in the outdoors for decades. The stick on ketches are what 99% of tears in puffer jackets are fixed with, colour matched or clashing - I've seen gaffer take used too. I appreciate that if you are more driven by fashion/looking nice, then colour match is more important.

Tenacious tape would do it and it's waterproof. I've used it to repair my tents.