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Topic: KILLER tents

a+sm

06/10/2010 at 9:27pm
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Are cheap tents killers?

I brought 2 pop-up tents from a supermarket chain for a trip to France, at two in the morning we woke up hyperventilating and gasping for breath, the inside of the tents were soaking wet! we were suffocating due to there being no vents.

Are there any standards tents have to be made to?

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corpogreen

06/10/2010 at 10:34pm
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Sorry ,I can't remember hearing of anyone suffocating in a tent,unless they'd had a gas leak on a heater of some sort . I would have thought the cheaper tents would be more draughty than an expensive one.There must be some sort of safety test tents have to pass before they are put onto the market.It must have been a horrible sensation to wake up sofocating, Glad you are OK

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armchaircamper

06/10/2010 at 10:38pm
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Quote: Originally posted by a+sm on 06/10/2010

Are cheap tents killers?

I brought 2 pop-up tents from a supermarket chain for a trip to France, at two in the morning we woke up hyperventilating and gasping for breath, the inside of the tents were soaking wet! we were suffocating due to there being no vents.

Are there any standards tents have to be made to?

That sounds awful!

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Ratty

07/10/2010 at 7:53am
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What make and model of tents were they?

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Merry

07/10/2010 at 8:19am
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This has come up before in relation to unventilated single skin pop up tents. When it was raised last year it was in connection with, iirc, a Vango tent which as it turned out did have warnings both on the website and with the tent about not zipping the tent up completely when inside. I think that tent has been discontinued now and the basic Vango popup does say 'new side vents' on the website.

Was there any ventilation advice with the tent you bought?

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07/10/2010 at 9:01am
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Without vents it would be just like sleeping in a sealed plastic bag

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The tents as described are unsuitable for serious camping, or any camping really, I guess they were less than £20. If you want a ventilated popup for overnight stops get a Quechua

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Ratty

07/10/2010 at 1:57pm
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As mentioned above, you will find the range of Quechua tents on this website from here and you will find plenty of visitor reviews to read too

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a+sm

07/10/2010 at 9:21pm
Location: Mansfield Notts
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thans all, the tents went in the bin and two new T2,s came from Decathlon in Carcassonne, good proper dome tent,s

Andrew

Merry

08/10/2010 at 9:48am
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Double skinned, properly ventilated pop-ups can be very comfortable too.

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a+sm

08/10/2010 at 12:37pm
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good point Merry, but I think I,d rather use my old Lichfield caddet3, i,v had it for 30 years or so, allthough do like the Decathlon T2 doam for its ease of pitching.

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corpogreen

17/10/2010 at 1:20pm
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These cheaper tents are definitely no good for nookie !!!!!!!!!! you would be out of breath very quickly.

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