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23/8/2012 at 10:11pm
 Location: east yorkshire
 Outfit: gelert lokon vario 6
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Hi All,

I need a carpet for my Vango Breckenridge 600. I know its highly unlikely I'll find one as its an old tent and discountinued ( however a brill tent I want to keep )....Proper tent carpet to fit ( the nearest size ) im gonna be paying around £90-100!!! Shocking! What im thinking is I'll get 2/3 extra large waterproof backed picnic rugs and stitch them together!
Wat id like to know...is this viable? Would it be just as good as a proper tent carpet? Anyone have any other ideas, places were I can get cheap tent carpet or rugs?
Thanks muchly :)

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23/8/2012 at 10:14pm
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i did the same with picnic blankets buy now as mostly half price or less in supermarkets, does the same job

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23/8/2012 at 10:39pm
 Location: Derby.
 Outfit: Karsten 350+Awnings
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I've no idea what size you are after, but the reno 4 carpet fits quite nicely in the bed pod of our icarus 500 (2011) which is 315 x 210. The reno carpet does have two corners cut away though! Now the good bit......

You can get them HERE for just £8.14 each..... so just get as many as you need to cover the whole lot!!

Just a thought!



Just had a quick glance at your tent dims..... looks like you'll get away with three reno 4 carpets..... less than £25!

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29/8/2012 at 5:42pm
 Location: east yorkshire
 Outfit: gelert lokon vario 6
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Mucker!!!
Thanks muchly for your reply.....iv just ordered myself 3 at a cost of £30 including delivery, i think they will do just the job :-)

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29/8/2012 at 10:15pm
 Location: Derby.
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Glad to be of help, Tubba, but I can't take all the credit, as I got the link originally from someone else on here 4 or 5 weeks ago, and took advantage myself.
Thought one might just be a little too small for our bed pod, but at £6 odd (at the time) I bought 2 just in case. Having now got a bigger tent, with bigger bed pod, I'm glad I got 2, as I lap them over to fit..... and get double thick carpet to 2/3 of the bed pod!! Happy Days, or nights, rather! :-)

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29/8/2012 at 11:23pm
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For my Cabanon I got a "Outwell Minesota 6" carpet for the living area and a "Outwell Wolf Lake 5" carpet for the bedroom pod.

Took the carpets to a lady on the market, and she cut and trimmed them so they were both a perfect fit for the Cabanon. which worked out at £25 for the alterations.

The carpets were bought early 2010 as end of line items, so total spend was around £60.

The carpets work real well in the Cabanon protecting both the bedroom pod SiG and the tents ZiG, well worth the money and I have plenty of ofcuts from the re-sizing, should the carpets ever need repairing.

But the best bit is the luxrury that fitted carpets add to a tent, in a word indulgence!.

 




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