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yours? I have a montana 6 so it has a SIG. Do you store it outside behind something.I like to use the side door of the monty when its tipping it down of rain and i thing the fridge may take up all the room in there.

Hi

I have a combicool and have it in the tent never had any problems and I leave it on overnight.

Lizzy

Hi all!

Newby here, husband to Camping Doris.

Threeways are very easily blown out by even the gentlest of breezes, due to the way they are vented to ignite.

I'm not sure of the average output of carbon monoxide emitted by a threeway fridge, it's not going to be high output like a gasfire or boiler.

However, what I can say is that we have a Vario 600 Plus, which is around about the same amount of cross sectional floor area as the Monty 6, and has a SIG, and have had no troubles.

I might be telling grannie how to suck eggs here, so if you are bored easily please switch to another link now, those interested in safety, please stay tuned!! 

Just to allay some fears, Carbon monoxide accumulates and lays just as water. It has relatively the same mass as water.

Now as seasoned campers, I expect most people never have a level pitch?

So you normally pitch with your bed on the highest aspect of the sloping pitch? 

If you poured water into your tent with a Sewn In Groundsheet (SIG) , you would see an accumulation or "puddle" at the far end (or bottom) of the tent away from where you are sleeping. 

If you don't have a SIG, there is no obvious issue, as the water or gas would pour away, unless you have some form of material forming a "dam", which is highly unlikely.  (I digress a tad). 

Now at this far end of the tent, is the front entrance.  This is normally a zip, which in itself is not "waterproof".   Water, and CO will "drip" away from the tent, and likewise, if you open your tent door the water or gas (if accumulated) will pour away.  An added safeguard is to open the electrical hook up zip during the day and as usual you normally have the doors open for all those comings and goings. 

So in a nutshell, threeways to me have not posed a problem.

Hope this helps and is not too technical.

We've just come back from 5 days at Thornton's Holt and used ours in our Idaho xl with a SIG but put it in the porch and did not put in the detachable ground sheet.  We put it on a table facing with the hot bit away from the canvas.

Fab item x

Ahhh ,youve got the wrong tent

We have ours in the porch of the Aspen and then set the kitchen up in the canopy

Gah!! thats a bit big !!!

We would not consider using it in the main lviing area as you can really smell the fumes in the porch