If it's anything like my Conway, when you're building up the cabin you need to do it symmetrically. When you're unfolding poles and pushing them out, have one of you at each end of the trailer and work as a mirror image, and at the same speed. Don't push one pole out to max at one end then expect it to slide smoothly out at the other...put it out one notch each end, then one again etc.
Take a small cheap spirit level for levelling the trailer. May sound anal but getting the trailer levelled correctly is a key factor to getting the rest up smoothly. Only takes a few seconds extra. Remember that you level a TT (or caravan) using the jockey wheel. NOT the steadies. You'll stress the trailer chassis if you carry the weight on the steadies. Keep the weight on the main wheels and jockey wheel.
Chock the wheels. Yes, you've got brakes, but chock the wheels anyway.
Take some small flat pieces of wood (6" x 6") to place under the trailer steadies and the bed legs. Or big jam jar lids. If you make the ones for the bed legs double layered with a hole cut into the top section before screwing the layers together, then the bed leg will not skitter off the top of the wooden plate. Or screw a jam jar lid to the wooden section. Stops the bed legs sinking.
When you're folding the cabin down at the end of the trip and it's wet, you'll be folding wet canvas onto the matresses etc. You normally get some sort of wet pack sheets (ie big sheets of plastic) to protect the matresses a bit here, or make your own.
Dry the TT out as soon as possible after getting home, within 48 hours if humanly possible.
Finally, most TTs require some sort of small blood sacrifice each time to make the erection process go smoothly. So don't get upset when you graze a knuckle or two. My Conway still needs this and we must have put it up several dozens of times. Plus we still argue non-stop about getting it level and taut. It's just part of the process!
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Topic: raclet trailer tent
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