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28/5/2008 at 3:36pm
Location: The Love Shack Outfit: BearLake 6 and a hot water bottle.
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Have a look here.
http://www.pennineoutdoor.co.uk/catalogue.asp?cID=1
They have all kinds of fabric that would match your tent.When we had the colarado 5 it had a mudwall round the living area but not the sleeping area.I ordered some fabric,cut it into strips to match,stitched it around the bottom and also put on some loops to peg it down with at the corners.Then sealed the joint with seam sealer.It made draught proof and warmer.
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28/5/2008 at 10:44pm
Location: Scotland. Outfit: Conway Camargue Lots of Vangos. .
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Mudflaps/stormflaps are the same, thing, stips of groundsheet like fabric sewn along the bottom of the flysheet and which either tuck under your groundsheet or are pegged down sloping away from the tent. Depends on the design as to which way. Mudwalls are when the bottom foot or so of the flysheet is plasticised, usually in cotton canvas tents which could get sodden from mud splashes. My trailer tent (see pix on profile) has very visible mudwalls, for example, but also has stormflaps which you can't see because they're tucked inside.
This is a good place to ask questions, yup. There's always someone around who knows (and a second person who knows quite different, but that's half the fun, lol.)
Best improvement you can make to any cheapie tent, btw, is to throw away the pegs it came with and buy some decent ones. If you search on "pegs" then you'll find lots of good advice there.
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30/5/2008 at 7:31am
Location: Scotland. Outfit: Conway Camargue Lots of Vangos. .
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Quote: Originally posted by Bonnie38 on 29/5/2008
Crashing in a bit here - sorry. But having also brought and regreted a cheap large tunnel tent and in the process of trying to get some money back - is it true that a very large gap of this nature won't just make the tent rather drafty but can make it more unstable?
The wind really got under mine and made it act rather like a parachute pulling against its tether...Is that less likely to happen with SIG or mudflaps?
A normal SIG tent still has a flysheet without stormflaps that goes over it. I think you mean one of the new designs like the Vango Killington where the SIG is integral to the flysheet? Yes, the wind is less likely to get under the canvas and pick it up. Same with the storm flaps, if the flaps are tightly pegged down to the groundsheet. The riser groundsheet will not help hold a tent down, btw, as for this particular purpose it's just like a tent with no groundsheet at all.
However if you buy a tent made to the classic flysheet +/- stormflaps it could be argued that this is such a well known and classic design (been around as long as tents, really!!) then it's not a design fault, it's a design characteristic. Unless the sales person advised you otherwise then it's just a choice you made without quite knowing what you were choosing,which is hardly their fault. Incidentally I use flysheet first tents exclusively because I hate SIG and very seldom peg down the stormflaps but I use good quality tents and peg them down to the best of my (very experienced!!!) ability. So they're not a bad choice, they're just a choice.
However, if it's a rubbish tent in general I'm all for returning it! If however it's a good brand name tent and it's just the design you've gone off...well, it's a bit like changing your mind after you've bought a t-shirt and decide the colour doesn't suit you...the retailer has no obligation to exchange.
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