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12/2/2011 at 9:19am
Location: Hull East Yorkshire
Outfit: Outwell Vango Relum & Cabanon!!
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Make sure it's cut slightly smaller than the tent so that the water doesn't run underneath and sew some tape to the corners for pegging. Buying the footprint for our tent is the best thing we ever did!!
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12/2/2011 at 3:08pm
Location: North Yorkshire
Outfit: Swift Challenger 510 & loads of tents!
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Try having a look at this website.
I've bought groundsheets from here to use a footprint rather than a cut down tarp as already has pegging points, etc. As said already, make sure it is slightly smaller than your tent.
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12/2/2011 at 6:25pm
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They dont do specific FootPrints for my Tent with ZiG, so a lucky find in B&Q got me a dozen or so 4mx5m dark green tarps, at £2 each, cheap enough to chuck in the bin if they get to messy.
Also for rough ground we have a 12ftx15ft Butyl Rubber 1mm thick Pond Liner, kindly given to me by a landscape gardener friend, you can buy the Butyl from pond shops at around 50p per sq ft.
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15/2/2011 at 2:48pm
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Vango also do some universal PE groundsheets in different sizes. We use one of these for two of our tents and just fold under the excess. I think we paid about a tenner for one 3m x 4m early last year. We peg down where the pegging points are visible and just use the weight of the tent itself elsewhere. Doesn't move.
Just bought a dedicated one though for the irregular shaped Kairos 400 to speed up the pitch - should shave a minute or so .
Helen
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Love our set-up and need no more tents or gear, so trying to stop looking!
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