Survived (and loved) our first family camping trip but now have a very soggy tent! What is the best way to dry it given that the garden is like a swamp and the heavens are still opening now? My plan was to drape it over the trampoline but that's not going to work now...
I put ours in the spare room and just keep turning it over until it is completely dried. Leave it for a good few days to make sure. If you haven't a spare room, put it the bedroom by day and living room by night.
Julie
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Quote: Originally posted by jdlovescamping on 05/6/2012
I put ours in the spare room and just keep turning it over until it is completely dried. Leave it for a good few days to make sure. If you haven't a spare room, put it the bedroom by day and living room by night.
Julie
There is nothing to add to this, except make sure that it IS completely dry, even the guy ropes. If you pack it away with the guy ropes still wet, you take the risk of the tent getting mouldy.
we have a huge tent and hardly any indoor space to dry it in so when we last had to deal with a very wet tent we could only unroll part of it at a time, prop it open with a clothes drying rack and blew air into it using a fan...after the open bit of tent dried, we moved the drying rack further in and turned the fan back on again...it took us a full week to completely dry the tent, but we managed in the end...!!
Usually spread out in the garage on top of the camping gear.
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I hold my 2 big tents open when drying them by putting my long bell tent pole inside. I've got space for that in the living room only, so after a wet camping weekend we have to live in the kitchen for some days!
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We are lucky enough to have large rooms, so the main tent gets half erected in the dining room (after we have taken the table down) and the kitchen tent goes up in the bathroom. Makes for interesting living , but at least it dries the tents!!
Have hung it the length of the garage, opened front and back doors and letting the air blow through for now. It's actually sunny here for now but will probably rain soon so not planning on moving it now for a few days.
I would still pitch it in the garden WHEN we do get a dry day just to make sure its completely dry
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We don't have spare room, bannister, garage or large garden so we just have to live around ours, we move all the furniture back in the living room and drape the tent out as far as we can, put the dehumidifier on and whack up the heating, it worked last time and looking at the weather now reckon we'll be trying it again this weekend
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Ours is currently drying in the lounge. We were lucky enough to get it down before the heavens opened, but the last but the rolling up happened during spitting of rain. We're not taking any chances with our new tent, so the lounge is now out of bounds for a couple of days! It's far too big to put up but we are rolling and turning it bit by bit.
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Topic: Best way to dry out a tent?
