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We waged battle to dry out our large Vango Tigris 800. What tips can you give us for next time?

My own tip would be to use the bloomin' footprint on the grass so we don't have to do tent origami in the house. Would love to hear how you do yours.

Always use the footprint,or similar,  keeps bottom of tent dry and clean and saves lot of work.

As for main tent, have you got garden? We usually lie tent on the lawn, sometimes pitch it,  or drape over washing line. other than that Im sure others will give you their tips, over the bannister, furniture etc.

We have a big garden - but it's on a big slope so it is terreced and we can't get anything more than a 2-man up on any one level (grrrr!)

For us, there's lots of laying it out, moving it around, turning it, yada, yada, yada...  but it has always worked out OK (we also have a decent sized conservatory with not a lot of furniture in it that gets really hot in just a little bit of sun - so that helps...)

We have the same problem, tent is basically the same size as the garden (we've got a Kalahari 10, so at least a nice neat rectangle!). I'd been fretting over it as we'd lost 2 poles during the high winds of 1/2 term, so I wasn't sure if we could get it aired. When I saw the weather yesterday, I just decided to go for it & see if I could partially erect it in the garden using just the 3 remaining poles - it worked!! Nice dry tent & guys - I did put the footprint down to keep the bottom of the tent dry, then dried that off once the tent was dismantled.

There is just no way we'd get it dried out in the house; we only just about had space to drape the bedrooms, so no chance with the outer tent! If the weather had continued to be rotten, I'd have had to loosely unroll it in the garage & just wait for a good day & hope it didn't go mouldy

I use an oversized groundsheet, instead of a footprint.  Just to keep the bottem of the tent mud free. I don't mind it wet.   If it's nice I lay it out on the lawn to dry.  Or if it's raining the tent soaked through.  (house is small). Place the tent in the bath to drip.  Then drape it over the bannister, turning it every so often, untill dry.  It's a pain doing it that way.

heath63

I forgot to say. if the bottem of the sig is wet, I just dry it with a towel. 

heath63