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I’ve been trawling through these and many other forums on waterproofing, the general consensus seems to be don’t bother, you should need to, once you’ve done it you’ll need to keep doing… etc. However, here’s the situation I’m currently in;
Purchased a second hand trailer tent, a Sunncamp 400SE, last month. We don’t know the age of the unit however.
We took it out this weekend just gone on the east coast, Norfolk. As some of you might know, the rain was apocalyptic during most of this weekend!
Despite this, the tent largely held up fairly well other than about 4 points where there was water coming in. Under the circumstances, we didn’t think that was too bad. But, feel this does need to be address, especially as one of the leaks was directly above one of the beds.
Most people say don’t waterproof, it’s waterproof itself and just needs weathering. If you waterproof it, it’ll need to be regularly done.
So here’s my main question, I’m pretty sure the guy we purchased it from said he had waterproofed it in the past, so does that now cancel out the “don’t waterproof” arguement as it’s already had at least one coat, and mean I do need to waterproof it? Or do I continue with the “weathering”? Bearing in mind, it didn’t rain the middle day, and started leaking again (arguably more so) when it rained day 3.
The tent is currently standing erect on my dads campsite, in the hope the next couple of days will be dry, fingers crossed.
Many thanks, Niall
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Topic: Waterproofing(?) Trailer tent
via mobile 21/6/2021 at 12:19pm
