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We have a sunncamp palace with like flaps all round the bottom that presumably are mean to fold inwards for you to put your groundsheet over to kinda seal it off - but what do we do where the poles come down cos the flaps obviously wont fold under where the poles are and then we end up with a massive gap where all the poles are?? What do other people do???

Ta

Jo

If the flaps are on the outside then you can peg them down using flat headed pegs. This helps keeping the draughts and bugs out.

John H

Quote: Originally posted by guy-rope on 01/8/2007

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i  peg  mine down  with thos  short mushroom  headed  pegs   outwards on  my  coleman ,  if its  draghty  i  stuff it with a  black  bin  bag  or some other tat  lying  to hand

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I was going on the photo of my new tent, and according to that the flaps should be lying outward?  I assumed they were to make the rain (as if it could possibly rain  ) run down the sides and away from the tent.  Is it more usual to fold them inward and under the groundsheet?

Be nice to me if this is a daft question - we've only just bought the tent and so far have only put it up in the garden.

It's according to whether the pegging points are to the outside of the flaps, or to the inside. If the pegging points are to the inside, then the flaps lie outside & vice versa.

I put mine outside - same tent as DenBee.  We haven't had this one very long but our previous one had the same sort of design and we camped in some really wet weather with it and never had water in the tent.