Message Forums

Has anyone suffered white smelly mould in a new tent before? We bought a new Vango Nevis 800 (Special Edition) last year & on the first outing developed foul smelling mould on the sewn in ground sheet. Vango did replace it but only had an ex display model to give us (a bit of a cheek when we paid for a new one). Took this replacement one on hols last week & blow me, the same thing has happened. We plan to contact Vango again tomorrow. Would be interesting to see if anyone else has had this happen.

I must point out, that on both occaisions the tent was stored inside & erected in the dry!

Your contract is with the retailer, not Vango. What did/do they say?

As to the white smelly groundsheet mould, that's a new one on me. More details please!

I'm quite used to pulling up a groundsheet and seeing white mycellium type (thready/speckly) mould growth on the underside. This comes from the soil and is perfectly normal. It smells like old stale growbag compost....yes, pretty nasty. But as I said, it comes from the soil and grows in the damp conditions under the groundsheet.

I've never had it on the inside of a groundsheet though, unless there was something sitting sweating on top of the groundsheet? Ummmm...you did lift and air under your airbeds or self inflating mats, yes? You can get a lot of moisture under them and over three weeks this could cause the mould to move inside.

Quote: Originally posted by kandsi on 06/6/2010

---

Funny, but had a Diablo 900 for 4yrs & never had anything like this, used over same time & same conditions.

---

Did you use a footprint with it?