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Topic: Pondliner as a groundsheet?

miljee1

28/8/2010 at 8:27pm
Location: southampton
Outfit: gelert mayon vario 6

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Just returned from a great but muddy trip to Devon.

Our tent (Gelert Mayon Vario 6 tunnel) hasn't got a SIG, a good thing when you have to scrape half of Devon off the underside of the groundsheet when you pack up!- BUT the groundsheets it does have is as follows:

SIGs in the 2x sleeping compartments
2 flat 'tarp' eyeletted groundsheets you overlap in the body of the tent, made of Chinese shopping bag woven plastic, if a little thicker and yes, waterproof!

BUT we were definitely squelching around on the tarps.

I am thinking about getting/making a large 'footprint' to cover the whole of the inside floor of the tent with a couple of appropriately sited holes for the inner tent peg holes.

That way we only have that to clean the underside of the sheet and don't fall foul of that 'red-mud' stained effect on the inner tent as one inevitably gets splashes on the inner tent as you wash off its SIG!

3 weeks ago we stayed in a pre-set up Cabanon in Jersey and it had a smooth grey rubbery feeling heavy-ish duty groundsheet.

Any idea whether that might have been pond liner or a special groundsheet material? And where, of course, I can get it?

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dadsbeaniemad

28/8/2010 at 9:07pm
Location: Cumbria (Upper Eden Valley)
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Pond Liner is excellent as a groundsheet.
I'm tring to remember who got some for a good price recently - I think it was Christine (?) HK0l (know it begins with an H.
There's a link on a post somewhere on here

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force ten

28/8/2010 at 9:24pm
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blue diamond PVC groundsheet

is that the sort of sheet that was in the cabanon

some people on here do use pond liners as groundsheets the flexiliner is one that some go for

pondliners

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28/8/2010 at 9:26pm
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Quote: Originally posted by dadsbeaniemad on 28/8/2010
Pond Liner is excellent as a groundsheet.
I'm tring to remember who got some for a good price recently - I think it was Christine (?) HK0l (know it begins with an H.
There's a link on a post somewhere on here

is this the one you are talking about

Quote: Originally posted by hlk01 on 26/6/2010
Hi - just resurrecting this old thread as I noticed that pondkeeper.co.uk sell cheaper on Amazon than through their own website.

Amazon

compare prices at pondkeeper

A 6m x 5m liner is £39.79 delivered via Amazon and £58.69 at pondkeeper.co.uk. I've compared like for like as they only seem to sell the 25yr and 40 year guarantee ones on Amazon, but it still works out cheaper to get a 25year liner through Amazon than a 15yr one via pondkeeper (£49.69). Does that make sense lol ?

So for the Athena it would be a tenner cheaper and you get the next quality up which I think is classed as tear resistant.

Post last edited on 26/06/2010 03:10:02

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