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It was nice of your mum to hand you down the tent, such a shame it leaked. The doorways raised could just be you had the tent too tightly put up, we did this the first time...we pulled the poles away and pegged them in then used the tension straps to tighten them causing the edging to be raised from the ground, we realised it doesnt need to be pulled too far out.

The dilemna over your leaking tent, thats a decision your going to have to make, do you enjoy camping and do you see yourself doing it more in the future. If so, then go out and get yourselves a new tent similar to the one you were given only with slight differences, you could tell your mum, you enjoyed it that much, you fancied a new tent that had an extra door, or height, or longer, more/less bedrooms, higher HH, you get the drift.

Good Luck

It must be worth trying some seam sealant.  Ideally you would set the tent up in the garden, spray it with a hosepipe, note the leaks and seam seal it.  Re-spray and see if you've succeeded.

Of course we haven't all necessarily got a garden.  Probably not worth spending a fortune but seam sealant is cheap.