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Hi All,

I've just come back from 2 days in France and it poured throughout when it came to packing up. I now have a very wet 6 person tent hanging in the bathroom. It looks like a parachute in there and like it'll take a week to dry.

If anyone has any tips I'd certainly appreciate it.  I'd love to put it into the tumble drier but I guess it might not do it much good...

Tks,

D

Quote: Originally posted by EDAVID on 08/9/2010

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If anyone has any tips I'd certainly appreciate it.  I'd love to put it into the tumble drier but I guess it might not do it much good...

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Lol.....

Well, lets think about this. You shouldn't put synthetic garments in a tumble drier on hot because you can damage the fabric and the garment will come out all creased. Given that synthetic tent fabric is made up of multiple layers of hi-tech stuff heat bonded together there's a fair chance a hot tumble drier would cause the flysheet to delaminate. Warm then? I still think it would crease horribly. Cold? Not a lot of point...

But apart from anything else, I doubt you could stuff a Gelert Cadiz 5 into a domestic tumble drier anyway. Why not just give it a good shake out every couple of hours and once it's stopped dripping, spread it out over the hall or lounge carpet with a couple of chairs underneath?

Hi,

Thanks for those tips.  I put the tips I could into action and it is now mostly all dry.

I'm quite pleased actually as I now know that if it happens again (I'm sure it's just a matter of time..  ) then it won't cause me much trouble. 

Also, next time, I'll put all the kitchen stuff inside the tent on the night before I leave so I have less things to dry also.

By the way, France is beautiful and the wine is superb.

Cheers,
D

We have the same problem - we have a little terraced house with a gaden smaller than our big tent.

We usually lay it out in the back bedroom as best we can and keep refolding it to get the air to as much of it as possible.  Touch wood so far have been lucky not to need to pack down when it's really wet, but I guess that's only a matter of time!