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27/8/2024 at 5:30pm
Location: Manchester
Outfit: Pennine Countryman
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I'm going to say maybe. It depends a bit on the price, plus the cost of fixing it, and how much work you want to do.
My experience is with trailer tents, but the bedrooms are pretty consistent, and a bedroom inner can be taken out and washed, or even replaced fairly easily. Given where it is the mattress is likely affected as well, but again that is certainly replaceable.
The biggest concern for me would be how has it happened? If it's a wet pack up, or a leaky transit cover, something you will have control of going forward that's one thing, if the tent is leaking then that's another thing entirely.
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28/8/2024 at 5:38pm
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If you’re handy with a sewing machine, or know someone who is, could be a nice little project.Take the bedroom liner that’s got all that mildew, and take patterns from it. Store somewhere in a bin liner until you’re happy with the replacement then bin it. Give the mattress a good sniff: even if not whiffy, might be worth getting a replacement made to measure, with your own preferred firmness. Lastly, work out where the water came in: a) packed away wet b) perished cover c) up and under while driving, and again, not opened to dry out. Ours had a pvc cover which folded over the bedding in case of emergency wet packing. Worth a coat of varnish on the timber.
Had ours, a Pennine Fiesta, for twelve years: took it all over, only sold it when the kids stopped coming, and hardly lost any money on it. Really comfortable, and my back’s not great. Went back to tenting for a while, but ended up caravanning. Maybe should have kept it. Downside is finding somewhere to dry it, before storing, in damp weather. You do have to tow, though not a hardship, it is a consideration.
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