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04/1/2021 at 10:24am
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Most tents that I know of just have velcro at the bottom of the doors, however, if you buy a tent with fly netting on all the doors, the fly netting is usually zipped all the way round so will serve the same purpose.
Don't forget to keep a sharp knife handy in case you need to exit the tent quickly in an emergency.
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04/1/2021 at 11:30am
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Our Cabanon Biscaya which has a ZiG, has a simple toggle affair, on the outside that connects the zip ends together, to prevent the door/ZiG from working itself open, I don’t think it’s a exclusive feature to Cabanon, so other tent makes will probably have the same system.
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04/1/2021 at 11:05pm
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Some bell tents have large enough holes in the zip toggles to nominally lock the tent? (As I'm sure others will?) As DM says above, a caribiner, or a split ring or a piece of cord?
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06/2/2021 at 11:46am
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Never really given much thought to it, but also been grateful for the condensation limiting ventilation provided by the door bottom 'gap' which seems to be pretty common.
I too have an inquisitive and inventive Border Collie dog, I crate her when not supervising her as she WILL find a way out if it's possible.
I have an oldish Outwell Glendale tent that whilst it has an opening at bottom of outer weather door has fully zipped inner mesh flyscreen, this IIRC has two runners on a single zip, so you can choose where the runners meet, enabling you to place them high up so dog noses can't reach to force them open (assuming it's not a Great Dane!)! I'm sure that is not unique to my tent.
I would strongly advise against 'securing' zip tags, in case you need to evacuate the tent in an emergency and any delays hamper your exit! I can think of two incidents where there have been fires on neighbouring pitches and being out of your unit ASAP was wise!
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