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Do you have a park local to you that you could put it up in?

I can just about put mine up in the back garden but without any guy ropes. If it's windy and I need to put the guy ropes up then I have to take it to our local park, which is fortunately only 2 minutes walk away.

I'm sure you will find your best way of dealing with a wet tent.  Mine is that if I can't put it up in the garden (and tent takes up almost all the room), I drape it over the bannisters.  It dries beautifully and on the next good day, I take it outside and roll it up into the bag. 

I've never put mine up to dry it, but I have dried it suspended from the washing line, laid out on the patio and keep turning it, and last year due to weather it was spread out over the banister on the landing.

We live in a terraced cottage with no rear access so know where you're coming from.

It's just a pain.

We cut our trip this week short by a night because the weather was actually good on that day.  I decided that the flysheet was dry and didn't want to risk staying the night and being forced to pack down wet.

The (sewn in) groundsheet was wet - we wiped it off with a towel and spread it out in our bedroom (the biggest room in the house).  It dried in a couple of hours and managed to get it folded and back into the bed.

If the fysheet was wet, I would have had to put it up in a friend's garden.

One last thing to mention:  MAKE SURE THE GUYS ARE DRY.  This is easily missed but will lead to a mouldy tent - nylon guys hold a surprising amount of water! 

Cazzy,

Sticks is right if you cant dry it at home take it to the nearest park.

I have done it and usually the breeze dries it pretty quick.

Assuming the rain stops.

Terry

Well we had a small two up two down terrace with little back yard and the only way we could dry our tent was to have it in doors and keep turning it, bit of a pain but a friend of mine didn’t see the relevance of this until he opened his onetime used Vango up the following season and  oops! mould city it was completely ruined .

You’ve got a big tent there though your gunna struggle, but it will be worth it and if you don’t know anybody who has the space you have no choice L