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We had a breathable groundsheet in our Fiesta awning, the type with holes in. We found to our cost one rainy day on Anglesey that if it's been raining and you walk on a breathable groundsheet, all the mud comes up through it. We never did manage to get it properly clean.

Now we have a cheap groundsheet folded to fit (one of this spring's jobs is to cut and hem it to size and put some eyelets in to save at least half an hour when pitching) and then we have Carpetina (another type of breathable but more closely woven) on top. Defeats the object of a breathable groundsheet but it came with the camper so we will use it.

The cheap tarps (the blue woven types) will allow water through if you stand a weight, or kneel on them so if I was not having a carpet I would try and get one of the PU ones (like a polythene) but I can't help with sizes sorry.

Hi we had the 400 and once we had the cabin up we put down breathable groundsheet to keep the awning off the mud and clean while we put it up.  Once the awning was up the flaps folded underneath the breathable groundsheet and then we put tarpaulin on the top.  The advantage of this was that under the wardrobe/toilet and kitchen only breathable was there and then if the waste from the kitchen or the blue toilet fluid leaked out of the flusher plunger (like ours does) it isn't running all over your groundsheet it soaks through the breathable groundsheet. 

We did find the 400 to much to put up for a weekend but we solved this by buying a 240 awning and poles as the cabin is the same for all the models.  My other half in the end made me sell my beloved trailer tent but I still have the 240 awning and poles in blue.  I have it listed in the for sale section if you're interested.

Hope this helps at all

Sally