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Could you get a tarpaulin or groundsheet and attach velcro at various points & match them in the same places on the inside of the tent creating a bucket groundsheet

Homebird

I can't help you on the extention for your tent. ( use either a quencha tarp or Vango adventure canopy, to cook under and to keep rain abay from doorway)     It is a great idea to help keep the door way dry as you go in.  My tent is not as large as yours It does'nt have a sig either,  Spent the time devising ways of keeping the rain out of the tent with the comings and goings and mud free.  (try too)

There has been some great advice.  I use two large mats and a small groundsheets to keep these areas clean.(the tarpaulan then has another use ie. for blocking the draft from the doorway) one at each entrance, footwear stays on these. some people use bags or cardboard boxes maybe. 

I make sure that when the doorway is pegged, the doorway is crossed over to take the strain of the zips where you have to peg and the doorway is slightly going away from the tents tub groundsheet so the rain doesnt drip into the tent.  (I don't know if this makes sense to you.  You could have an oversize grounsheet which will come up the sides inside the  tent, which acts like a tub ground sheet.  My tent being smaller I now use small grounds sheets as its easier for me to cope with.

does this give you any ideas.  Other people will come along with extra thoughts.

Heather

You can buy mudwalling by the metre from this site;-http://www.esvocampingshop.com/en/tent-fabric/mud-flaps-en.html

If you sew this on the inside then you can peg out the tent as normal and lay a groundsheet over the mudwall inside to stop any draughts.  I have done this on  1 of my tents, it is not too hard a job.

I use the Lichfield canopy on the end and the Kampa canopy on the side.

Never actually tried doing it the other way round!

No it doesn't zip on  - it goes over the tent and guys down the opposite side and at the front.
Have a look here - this looks just the same as mine:
http://www.khyam.co.uk/detail.asp?p=381

The other one I have goes on the end and is very simialr to the Vango extension:
http://www.vango.co.uk/tent-additions/canopy-large.html

I got them both off eBay.