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Topic: Groundsheet for awning?

Eejaybee

17/5/2016 at 9:26am
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Please excuse my ignorance- we are new to this. The campsites i've looked at all suggest a breathable groundsheet in the awning. However, from the reading I have done on this site, it sounds like these get damp. My son wants to sleep in the awning and we want to store our stuff there. What is the best groundsheet or carpet to get?

silvertopsandra

17/5/2016 at 12:49pm
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Have have a Bolon groundsheet, expensive but very good. Bought it last year for our Pennine full awning used it for the first time this month, really impressed.

Have had/still got in the shed open weave which you can buy either in metre lengths or pre packed, its warm but the grass tends to grow through the little holes and the rain soaks up through a bit.

Also have treadlite which comes in different sizes. Its OK but I did find the damp soaked through.

http://caravanalia.com/departments/breathable-groundsheets/151
is useful to browse.

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17/5/2016 at 6:53pm
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Aldi had one recently at a very reasonable price.

floppy-poppy

21/5/2016 at 1:27am
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We are also new to Trailer Tents, but have been camping for years. Our tent has a SIG (sewn in groundsheet). Our "new" trailer was supplied with a tarpaulin.

Campsites do not like tarpaulin as it is not eco friendly and the grass cannot grow underneath and they very often specify this as the case. So a breathable groundsheet is what is needed.

We have just spent our first week in our TT and it apparently rained non-stop for 2 days and stopped just before we arrived and the ground was really sodden. We put our breathable groundsheet down and we think it worked well. We both had crocs (OH not keen, but they worked well) so didn't get wet feet. But one of our kitchen units is low so you have to kneel and so got wet knees.

We store things in plastic boxes (with clip lids) and cupboards and luckily we took some fold down plastic boxes that we could put bags etc. in so as not to get wet off the floor.

I wouldn't store clothes in the awning but most everything else, if it's in something waterproof or in a cupboard, that's fine. It will get damp in the awning at night but as soon as the sun comes up it all evaporates.

As for your son sleeping out there..........mmm. I would say that would definitely depend on the weather and what's underfoot. Night times are always damp even in the summer - as in a day of sun and no rain. Do you have pup tents as they area an enclosed dry area and he should be fine in there.

We got the Aldi breathable groundsheet for ours and it is very good! If you wear plastic shoes and don't kneel on it you wouldn't know the difference!
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ChrisSue

21/5/2016 at 8:10am
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We have been to several sites where a breathable groundsheet is required (rightly so). Our solution has been to have this down and then in the evening we lay our normal groundsheet over the floor space part of our awning. This is mainly to reduce condensation inside the awning at night and then also it is warmer underfoot for the evening.

In the morning, we lift the normal groundsheet and allow the breathable one to it's business. It's a good compromise and when we lifted our breathable groundsheet yesterday after a week, the damage to the grass was minimal and some daisies were growing happily under the table area!

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