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If the weather is raining constantly when you get back, could you not go to a local school and ask if you can pitch it in their hall once you have got the worst of the water off i.e. take it when it's damp? Same idea as the scout/brownie hut really, but I'm just thinking of indoor places.

Or, maybe booking out a sports hall at a leisure centre - as long as you asked if it would be OK? I would think that if you took it damp/not dripping a few hours would sort it out enough for you to then take it home completely dry or be able to lay it out down the stairs for example over night to get it totally dry. However, this would cost money. I'm not sure how much it would cost to hire a sports hall or section of a sports hall.

Quote: Originally posted by ribble on 23/8/2011

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I think the UV breakdown is only really a massive problem at altitude, or where it is sunny (southern France).

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I think you might change your mind if you looked at the condition of the flysheets of ex-display tents when they've been up for the whole of the summer. Six months cumulative UV exposure IS the accepted life span for leisure tents, sorry. Technical tents such as the Force 10 are made of sterner stuff than leisure tents.

Quote: Originally posted by mum2kathryn on 21/8/2011

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Umm, could you put it up in the living room just before you went to bed? If you have a dehumidifier stick that on, if not a maybe a small fan heater (making sure it's safely away from the tent), it could be dry by morning?
If there isn't room to put it up you could try draping it over some dining chairs.

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That's exactly what we did last year although it did take longer than overnight. We moved all the furniture to one end of the room and strung the tent up to curtain poles, wall lights and over furniture, turning it regularly, also turned the heating up a bit - we got there eventually but not something I'd like to have to do too often!

We dried ours in our daughter's garden.

Do you have any friends who wouldn't mind you using their garden for a day or two - I wouldn't have minded when we had a large garden. 

Joan