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09/8/2021 at 3:57pm
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it is condensation. cold floor and the warmth of the tent. is normal. therefore always ventilate under the beds
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09/8/2021 at 7:49pm
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I would think it's more likely ground water has risen above the ground sheets rather than condensation.
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09/8/2021 at 10:28pm
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Quote: Originally posted by Pagea on 09/8/2021
Thank you. I was a little spooked!
Do you have any good tips for ventilating under the mattress? I’d struggle to fit camp beds in my car.
put the beds upright daily for a while
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09/8/2021 at 10:56pm
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Regardless of the weather you must have all the vents open on a polyester tent in order to help reduce condensation. In some conditions it can be advantageous to unzip the door slightly and allow more ventilation.
Although water can eventually seep through a groundsheet if it is stood in a puddle, it is very unlikely based on your description that it was leakage, and almost 100% likely to have been condensation.
If your footprint is visible beyond the walls of your tent then rain and dew (on the outside walls of your tent) can run down and drip onto the footprint, run underneath between it and the tent groundsheet, and you are then virtually pitched in a lake! You then have cold water underneath the tent and warm air inside which are ideal conditions for condensation.
It takes a combination of wet and cold versus the warmth of the tent inside to create large amounts of condensation and in normal years those conditions aren't too bad and you may never experience it as bad as that again, but this summer we have had nothing but rain and damp for weeks...certainly in my area, so no doubt you have suffered more than usual.
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10/8/2021 at 12:06pm
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This just happened to us too while camping. We used a footprint, a sewn-in groundsheet, a carpet and by the door a shaggy bathmat (to trap all the crud that folk walk in). It was a pretty wet week away and when packing we noticed that the carpet was damp-to wet as was the underneath of the bathmat. The reason was not condensation, it was water trapped between the SIG and the footprint, coming up as folk walk over that space. Clearly, what happened to you might be different, but to answer your question of can what pass upwards through three layers, yes it can.
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