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13/8/2014 at 1:21pm
Location: Herts
Outfit: Karsten 350 Pod CA EA FW RA COMBI
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We always book one extra night so we avoid the morning pack up.
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13/8/2014 at 1:48pm
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My trips are always two nighters but with all the unsettled weather we have had over the last couple of years, or other reasons, I am finding myself packing up late on day two and going home more and more often.
I am toying with the idea of just booking one night and then either asking for a late stay extension (cheaper than two nights) or booking a second night if all is well and I am enjoying myself.
Perhaps this might not be possible in the busy periods but it may save me a few bob in the quiet periods.
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13/8/2014 at 2:11pm
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Well the tent is STILL up in the garden! Everyday its rained on and off so never got fully dry! Come on weather, sun up!
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13/8/2014 at 7:42pm
Location: East Sussex
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Did you manage to get it dry today, Glitz? It stayed bright and breezy here right up to 4 this afternoon, when the heavens opened with a vengeance. It tipped it down for half an hour and flooded the main road near my house.
We had the Khyam up in the garden for 2 weeks when we came back from the Peaks a few years ago. The poor thing was subjected to 4 weeks of rain, I reckon we brought it with us.
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13/8/2014 at 7:51pm
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Managed to bring my tent in this afternoon!!!!! Just laid it over the table to dry the under side of the ground sheet. Thanks to everyone so much for your advice :)
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13/8/2014 at 9:36pm
Location: West Sussex
Outfit: Outwell Vermont XL
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Yep, dried beautifully :)
Then had to take it to a green next to us to repack it. Still it amused the locals.....
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13/8/2014 at 9:45pm
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Well done Glitz, both of us with dry tents! :)
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13/8/2014 at 11:09pm
Location: Scotland.
Outfit: Conway Camargue Lots of Vangos. .
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I have spent the last five weeks with a rotation of drying tents over the bannisters, I think I've only had about three days with them clear. I religiously dry and air every tent when I get it home no matter how dry I think it was at pack up, this can be a bit of a pitb at times but on the plus side I've never had so much as a speck of mould on any tent in the last 35+ years. It really is worth getting them bone dry.
(Why five weeks? Well, that's four different Scouts trips, two trips for me with DD/a friend, two weekends that OH has gone off with cronies and six individual nights of wild camping for DS. Some of the tents need inners/outers dried separately and the bannisters only hold one or the other of these for the big tents.)
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14/8/2014 at 9:09am
Location: wirral
Outfit: Outwell Nevada m Vango sigma 300
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I haven't read through all the posts. Your tent is dry now. But I do recommend that when it is raining, to take down the inner, the tent will weigh less and less bulkier.
I put mine in the bath to drip dry to avoid problems occurring like you had. I turn the the tent every so often to let the tent drain the water of, may take a few days.
Then drape it over furniture or bannister. Like you I have limited space. If sun out, then it goes into the garden.
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16/8/2014 at 11:04am
Location: Suffolk
Outfit: Eriba Famila 320
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Glad to hear you got yours dry and away. For the first time in several years we had a wet tent to get dry yesterday, managed to get ours dry by tea time having spread itout over the washing line, a few garden chairs and a Workmate. Going away next Friday, so it won't be away for that long.
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