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Although we have a wet weather porch in our large tent that we remove shoes in (including our 3 year old) we also take our Dirt Trapper door mats from home (particularly useful for the smaller tents which don't have a porch). They are excellent at removing moisture and dirt from shoes and get better with machine washing. Had them over 5 years now at home and still perfect. Not cheap but given their performance they're good value.We have also just bought a foldable washing up bowl to stand just inside the tent for putting dirty footwear in.

Sorry can't advise on cleaning a carpet as we haven't needed to so far.

Helen

When un-packing and packing up - its one adult inside the tent and one outside doing a pass the parcel so that dirt doesn't get walked in. Also use easy to slip on and off footwear - clogs - if we do need to cross the threshold. Our 3 year old is either kept inside or banned from the tent and hopefully persuaded to help.

Helen

I love the look and feel of the carpet and thats just doung 2 1 nighters ,1 in the amazon in the garden and the latest in the TT, we decided to keep the footprint and carpet from our amazon for the TT. 

I have a small piece of tarpaulin i'm planning to peg outside the door and a carpet  off cut for inside the doorway,A folding crate just inside the doorway for shoes too.

 If their is spillages i won't shout out these things happen no 1 intentionally spills their drink ,the last thing they need is here is your drink and don't spill it,bless accidents happen  but i'm hoping the removal of shoes will help with general wear and tear. 

Gee that sounds so loving i must have remembered to take my meds lol

Quote: Originally posted by floggitt on 10/5/2010

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Thought a wetvac like a vax would have no problem cleaning it up, maybe you could borrow one from a friend. Worst case pressure wash it then hang up to dry.

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can they go in the washing machine ? i dont know has anyone put theres in and is it ok afterwards ,like i mentioned earlier in thread laundrette with big machines

regards

Nathan

Morrisons, were doing foldaway picnic rugs for £6.00 reduced by 50% last week!!  So only £3.00 each. We have bought 2 and they are approx 1.5m x 1.5m so intend to use them as a carpeted/soft area inside the tent this season.

Hopefully we have a great summer and wont have to worry about wet and mud! ....YEAH RIGHT!!!