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Topic: Best way to dry out a tent?

bugbug

05/6/2012 at 3:47pm
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Survived (and loved) our first family camping trip but now have a very soggy tent! What is the best way to dry it given that the garden is like a swamp and the heavens are still opening now? My plan was to drape it over the trampoline but that's not going to work now...

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jdlovescamping

05/6/2012 at 3:56pm
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I put ours in the spare room and just keep turning it over until it is completely dried. Leave it for a good few days to make sure. If you haven't a spare room, put it the bedroom by day and living room by night.

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05/6/2012 at 5:06pm
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Quote: Originally posted by jdlovescamping on 05/6/2012
I put ours in the spare room and just keep turning it over until it is completely dried. Leave it for a good few days to make sure. If you haven't a spare room, put it the bedroom by day and living room by night.

Julie

There is nothing to add to this, except make sure that it IS completely dry, even the guy ropes. If you pack it away with the guy ropes still wet, you take the risk of the tent getting mouldy.

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05/6/2012 at 5:12pm
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Bannisters is another good place to hang it if they are big enough. Same as the spare room, just keep turning it until dry.

sallymorgan

05/6/2012 at 5:25pm
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Have you got a garage? We have put our huge canvas awning in the garage draped it over an old washing line we slung over 2 beams & kept turning it

moonstone

05/6/2012 at 5:32pm
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we have a huge tent and hardly any indoor space to dry it in so when we last had to deal with a very wet tent we could only unroll part of it at a time, prop it open with a clothes drying rack and blew air into it using a fan...after the open bit of tent dried, we moved the drying rack further in and turned the fan back on again...it took us a full week to completely dry the tent, but we managed in the end...!!

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05/6/2012 at 5:34pm
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Usually spread out in the garage on top of the camping gear.

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I hold my 2 big tents open when drying them by putting my long bell tent pole inside. I've got space for that in the living room only, so after a wet camping weekend we have to live in the kitchen for some days!

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parmit

06/6/2012 at 7:58am
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We are lucky enough to have large rooms, so the main tent gets half erected in the dining room (after we have taken the table down) and the kitchen tent goes up in the bathroom. Makes for interesting living , but at least it dries the tents!!

bugbug

06/6/2012 at 5:08pm
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Thanks.

Have hung it the length of the garage, opened front and back doors and letting the air blow through for now. It's actually sunny here for now but will probably rain soon so not planning on moving it now for a few days.

moonstone

06/6/2012 at 6:31pm
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i'm glad you managed to sort something out...hopefully you'll have a dry tent in no time at all...

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06/6/2012 at 7:15pm
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Trouble is now you know you can & how to do it you will be camping in all weathers, happens to us all !

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06/6/2012 at 8:17pm
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Well, that's answered my question.

Got back from test pitch, and thought I did quite well getting it reasonably dry. Turns out I need to do better!

Thanks for the advice.

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06/6/2012 at 11:31pm
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I would still pitch it in the garden WHEN we do get a dry day just to make sure its completely dry

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We don't have spare room, bannister, garage or large garden so we just have to live around ours, we move all the furniture back in the living room and drape the tent out as far as we can, put the dehumidifier on and whack up the heating, it worked last time and looking at the weather now reckon we'll be trying it again this weekend

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Merry1973

07/6/2012 at 12:16pm
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Ours is currently drying in the lounge. We were lucky enough to get it down before the heavens opened, but the last but the rolling up happened during spitting of rain. We're not taking any chances with our new tent, so the lounge is now out of bounds for a couple of days! It's far too big to put up but we are rolling and turning it bit by bit.

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