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01/9/2013 at 11:41pm
Location: Essex coast living on a boat!
Outfit: Vango Stargrove 600xl
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Wow, you are so lucky, what a find! That obscured window is the kitchen bit that you can use for cooking, just the same as the one on my Cabanon Espace.
With regard to the bedroom inners, it is easy to get the universal inners online for less than £20 each, so it would not be that much outlay to get the tent usable for camping stays.
There should be some curtains too, in my Cabanon there is a plastic runner above the windows where the hooks clip on, if there are no curtains with your tent, it is quite easy to make these because you can buy the clips for these online, they just sew on the top edges of each curtain at regular intervals, so it would simply be a question of hemming suitable sized rectangles of fabric and attaching the hooks along the top of each.
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03/9/2013 at 8:02am
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Re mould....give it a good airing out and a brush down with a soft brush then sponge down the pink bits with some plain water and a good solid car sponge. You can absolutely saturate the canvas like this from both sides and hopefully this will remove the marks. Yes you can use Milton, make it up at the dilution for baby bottles, sponge it on both sides of the canvas, leave it for a few minutes and then rinse it out. Use the hose and rinse it A LOT, then a bit more, then again.
Do not use soap, detergent or any supermarket cleaners of any sort. Do not be tempted by Dettol Mould & Mildew Remover spray, this contains a wetting ingredient which is detergent based and all detergents are a no-no on cotton canvas. Plain Milton is a form of bleach, it may lift the colour a touch at that point but it's not got surfactants in it so it's okay. But rinse it out well.
As to checking the proofing, give it a good hose down all over. If it's been in storage for a while it will leak. Do not worry, let it dry off and wet it again. The cotton fibres will have plumped up with the first wetting, the second time round they will be good and tight and waterproof.
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