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13/5/2006 at 2:44pm
 Location: staffordshire
 Outfit: montpelier 12 .seat alhambra.
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I have just purchased a montpelier 12 tent and its massive. I have a dread of packing it away wet after a trip and then struggling to dry it out at home. any tips anybody?


13/5/2006 at 4:56pm
 Location: bristol
 Outfit: Outwell montana 6 + 4 others!!!
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mmmmmmm Alan..GOOD LUCK!!!!

We have a montpellier 9 so not quite as MASSIVE as yours. The only way we could get ours dry was to use the dining area and dining table. We had most of the material on the floor put 2 metres of it on the table wiped it down with a towel and then another 2 metres and another and another.....of course it is as wide as it is long so had to move it width ways as well as length ways if that makes sense. That was just to take the worst off and then we did the same thing again just to 'air' it and make sure it was totally bone dry. It took about 3 days to do though, but I think the most important thing is to get air circulating. The hardest thing was tying to fold the bloomin thing up in the living room!



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13/5/2006 at 8:39pm
 Location: Norfolk
 Outfit: Vango Diablo & Dreams of a Campervan
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We have a Diablo 600.

I hang it over the shed to dry, honest

 



13/5/2006 at 9:00pm
 Location: Leicester
 Outfit: 2009 Bailey Ranger
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I have a Suncamp stratus 8 which got somewhat damp at Billing aquadrome last month. I used the spare cabin bed in the bedroom to drape the tent over to dry.

I'm going to put some hooks in the attic to enable me to spread the tent up there as I live in a trraced property.



13/5/2006 at 11:17pm
 Location: Mid-Wales UK
 Outfit: VW + Bailey Pageant Burgundy 08
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Yep, we're off to buy a shed tomorrow so that we can dry ours

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Claire x

Jan 2013 - Skiing, Kühtai, Austria
May - Swiss Farm
      Fforest Ffields
Aug - Saumur, France
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14/5/2006 at 9:07am
 Location: Cheadle Hulme uk
 Outfit:  Khyam XXL
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Hi
I hang mine over the washing line .


14/5/2006 at 11:08am
 Location: Surrey
 Outfit: Wild Country Homestead 7
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We've only brought ours back soaking once so far, and managed to put it up in the garden to dry - we have another three camps this year so we could have as lot more wet tent moments. I'm thinking of putting some hooks in the corners of our dining room and then if necessary tie up a temporary washing line. Dining room is 9'x12' and tent flysheet folded in two is approx 12'x20' so we could drap the whole tent up, across and then down the full length of the room. Eat on our laps for 3 days.


14/5/2006 at 2:25pm
 Location: Gateshead
 Outfit: Outwell Montanna 600p
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Try putting hooks up in sitting room or largest room i use poles from a old frame tent i have & put this up in the living room overnight this seem to do trick have even tied tent from one window to another ( like a giant Flag) Good Luck

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17/5/2006 at 8:55pm
 Location: None Entered
 Outfit: None Entered
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Had our first outting this weekend in Dundee.  Rained on Sunday night and Monday.  We had to pack up in the rain.  I've made a make shift line on our garage.  It's been drying now for two days.  Have to say the guide ropes are taking the longest to dry.

It's inevitable that you'll be caught out at some point.  Just hoping that the law of averages means we've had our fair share for the year.



17/5/2006 at 9:02pm
 Location: mid wales
 Outfit:  combi -camp plus & Omega XL
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We also hang ours on the wash line

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Brown's
{As told to me by a friend.} Man's best friend is the dog, but a women's is the bunny
Smile and the world smiles with you, we hope!!


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17/5/2006 at 11:01pm
 Location: Scotland.
 Outfit: Conway Camargue Lots of Vangos. .
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I hang mine over the stair bannisters...fortunately I have a very very long, high set of stairs.



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