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hi just come back from a few days away with our icarus 500 and we had some heavy rain over the 3 days and there were some drops of rain coming in through the stitching where the ground sheet joins to the fabric on the side door side of the tent. i was wondering if to go along here with some seam sealent? would this help and if so which is the beat one to get?.

barbara

hi thanks carole

 have been told to contact where i bought it from as weve only used it twice and its a 2011 model and that it shouldnt leak , but there are no other places that are leaking in and dont want to have to maybe send it back and then get another one with some thing else wrong with it, would you just do the seam your self or contact where i bought it from? any advise please

barbara

Barbara,

We have the 2011 Icarus too, and have had the same problem. I have actually spoken to Vango in Glasgow, they have advised that this is NOT a fauly with the tent, you will notice ALL seams except the ones you mentioned are heat seam sealed. It is apparently not possible to heat seal the the poly ground sheet onto the fly sheet.

After the tent getting soaked and drying out I have been advised that the stitching will contract back to make a tighter seal..........I'm not convinced myself so I am going for the storm seal (the vango guy did say this is thr only way to make 100% seal).

To be honest I have owned numerous tents over the years and all tents will leak somewhere especially in the torrential rain / flooding we were caught in last week

Good Luck!! Gordon

hi thanks gordon

im a bit like you on the drying out part and the stitching contracting back as it has been fully dried out twice and still let in a little in some heavy rain so i think i will go with the storm seal also .

thanks again

barbara