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18/3/2018 at 9:40am
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Agree with the above... apart from the use of the scary word "ingress". The water will get between footprint and SIG though, if the footprint sticks out anywhere, and it can't dissipate as both footprint and SIG will be (should be!) waterproof, so any puddles there will remain until you go home. It still shouldn't seep through the SIG to the inside of the tent though... although I can't comment on the quality of the SIG for this tent.
Easy enough to fold back under, and tape with Gorilla tape*. Even add eyelets for pegging with mushroom pegs, if desired. Half an hour in a dry sunny garden should sort it!
Second option is to cut the tarp to shape.
*If folding and taping, fold underneath, and tape all laps fully, so water can't get between the folds.
I prefer to get a bargain tent footprint myself, but many are happy to get a bog-standard builders Tarp from a DIY warehouse or similar.
With a 2.3m square, at those widest points of your tent, you'll have about 350mm/14" of SIG exposed (each side) to the cold/wet/muddy ground, so a little more SIG to wipe dry/clean before you bag it up, but no biggy. If you can get something a little bigger/too big, and fold/cut to size and shape (2" to 3" inside the base size/skirt of the tent), all the better, I'd say. The less wiping/drying of the underside of the SIG, the better.
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18/3/2018 at 1:00pm
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Quote: Originally posted by Bob61 on 18/3/2018
...Bearing in mind that nobody usually walks right up to the walls of a tent, especially if they slope, so the edges of the tent groundsheet shouldn't get too wet or dirty if the tarp doesn't fit wall to wall...
It may not get dirty (for the reasons you state), but it'll likely get just as wet as any other sheet of material laid on wet grass, and certainly wet enough to ruin a bagged tent if it doesn't get wiped dry!
It (The underside of the SIG) all needs to be dry (We take old towels) before it goes in the bag, whether that be a 2" strip all round, or a 10" strip all round, that needs wiping. (That's presuming the rest of the tent is dry, and there are no plans to re-pitch it when you get home!)
The rain itself may not get under there, but more often than not, when conditions dictate, it'll still be wet grass/ground under there.
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