![]() Your body heat reacts with the cooler air around you to cause condensation which will collect on your tent roof/walls as droplets of water. It’s likely to be condensation and isn’t a reason to return your tent. Is water collecting in your tent even if it’s not raining? Over time the weather will remove the tents waterproof covering, but this can be re-applied easily using some re-proofer. – If water has stopped beading off of your tent and is starting to sit and gather on the tent, like it would a t-shirt. Is water seeping through your tent material? Here is a video for how to repair tears/seamsĢ. This is an easy fix using Tenacious Tape. If it’s an older tent, you may need to repair the tear or re-seal the seam. If it’s a new tent, then you can bring it back as damaged. Is water coming through the seams or a tear? There are 3 possible outcomes to this questionġ. You can temporarily repair most issues with your tent using this tape, so it’s always worth taking a roll with you for emergency fixes. Do you have your pitching instructionsĮssential Kit: Gaffa Tape/Duct Tape is the ultimate camping essential. Are all poles there and in good conditionĤ. If your garden is too small to pitch the tent, we would still recommend unpacking the tent and doing a few checks:Ģ. So unpack your tent, you get the benefit of getting in some practice with pitching and packing away, plus you’ll find if it has any issues so it doesn’t hinder your camping holiday. Any issues after purchase can be easily rectified with your local store, this becomes a lot more difficult if you’ve only found the issue once you’ve reached your campsite. The best and most important tip we can give you is to always test pitch your tent, and check your equipment BEFORE you make your trip. Here’s how to tell whether your tent is damaged beyond repair or not. But at least you get your tent in the bag easily.How to remedy some common tent issues and tell if your tent is damaged or notĪ tent can be a big investment for a family, and if you’re an absolute beginner to camping, it’s common to worry about the health of your tent, but here are some common ‘issues’ that can be easily rectified/prevented, or may not be issues at all. This gets rid of any air left in the beams/air inside the tent itself. I do it with all my tents, not only my inflatable.īut a good tip for getting rid of air etc so you get a nice flat tent to roll up as follows.įold the tent to the width of the bag, then don't worry about the looks you're about to get, and lie down down the folded up tent and roll towards the other end (in the case of an inflatable this is rolling towards the valves). Outfit: None Entered Location: None Entered This is how we've done on the advice given from Gary at cross camping Then roll the whole thing over so the bag is the right way and start stuffing as much of the tent into the bag until it's all in We roll the tent up as described above then put the tent bag on top of the tent and pull as much of the bag over the tent ![]() When we had our eternity 600 and now our Eden Outfit: Bailey 75-2 Location: stoke on trent Message posted by paul+kate s-o-t at 7:30pm It's Vango 500 flux so only two beams - hopefully I can pack it first time and quickly on the next attempt. The methods described should certainly get the residual air out of the beams easily without the need for a pump. I had been folding the tent all wrong, no wonder I struggled to get it back in the bag! Thank you All, that's super useful advice. Outfit: Anything I like !!! Location: Hertfordshire Message posted by Cross Camping at 9:29am Then roll the tent up towards the open end of the airbeam this expels most of any remaining air left in the beamsīy using this method we've always got our airbeams back into the bag without a problem You need to bring the rear off the tent into the middle then the front back to the middle then repeat these steps until it's small enough to fit into its bag. We unscrew the non return valve this let's most of the air our the I tale my shoes off and go onto the the tent and starting at the end of each airbeam push any remaining air out by hand this was the way shown to me by Gary cross and I think he knows a bit about inflatable tentsĪlso the way you roll the tent back up helps this Hi when we've deflated our airbeams we are on our 3rd now.
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