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30/7/2015 at 12:44pm
Location: Derby.
Outfit: Karsten 350+Awnings
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Hollow,
I'm in total agreement with the majority.
Even in France, you can get chilly/damp ground through the night, and the carpet not only helps on that score, but as has been said, it also protects against furniture feet etc.
As for the footprint... certainly with a SIG tent... after 15 nights (The longest our tent has been in the same position) by La Dordogne in Sept '13, each of which rated between damp and soaking wet (morning dew/heavy mist etc, as well as the odd shower) we were left with this...
(Excuse all the ruts & channels... that was the moles!)
My only regret is that I didn't photograph the underside of the footprint! It was minging... and it smelled awful!
Had to drape it over the boundary hedge to get some sun on it, then beat it off with the broom, before sweeping off the bulk of stinky drying mud, and lobbing the sheet in a large but tightly wrapped bin liner for the journey home. A few days later, I laid it out in the garden, and gave it a good hosing/scrub.
Without that thin, flimsy footprint, which takes one minute to lay down, and costs very little when compared to the rest of the gear, we would have been left with all that stinky mess sticking to the underside of our beautiful tent (SIG)... And I wouldn't fancy having to take that home, and scrub it, once it had spread to the rolled up fly sheet too!
A footprint should be one of the first "added extra's" to buy, when choosing a SIG tent, imo.
PS:
...And I certainly wouldn't have fancied this without the carpet... and my Heat Holder socks... and the fan heater... and my slippers  ...
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