About a fortnight ago we went camping and the last day was thundering down with rain so we packed the tent away wet. We put it outside in the garden however it has been nonstop rain for days on end now. The tent is just getting wetter, and the peg hooks are begging to grow rust. How can I dry this? Also, will I need to waterproof it again as the material has been lying on the wet grass for so long?
Do you have a garage . Or put it over a line when it stops dripping lay it down your stairs . Keep turning it . Hope this s can be sorted for you .
How big is it . If it's too big for this . Sorry I don't know .
Could you put it up in your garden and put a cover over the top like the blue tarpaulins .
What a nightmare! I think at this stage, even if you live in a flat with no outside, I would be rigging up a line indoors (over the bath? Shower? ) and doing as much towel / low heat hairdryer drying as possible.
Or beg help from a friend with a garage or a work workshop. Or even pay for the midweek use of a scout hut or community hall.
If you get it dry you could leave the re-proofing til you next camp? Arrive very early in the day?
Quote: Originally posted by athomas2017 on 06/6/2017
. . . the material has been lying on the wet grass . . .
Is it not pitched? If there's space, I'd leave it in the garden fully pitched with all the vents open. Take the bedroom pods out and dry them indoors. If they're smelling musty, turn them inside out and machine wash them, then drip dry over the bath. If it's not polycotton or cotton, use towels to get the inside of the tent as dry as possible. A fan heater will speed this up. Eventually the weather will improve and the fly will dry off very quickly.
I agree with TimCESmith. I would have left it pitched. If you think about it, you could be on a campsite with a weeks rain. Put it up in garden, its got to be sunny soon. Dry out bedroom pods inside.Reproof if you feel neccessary.
We have a huge tent that won't fit in our garden. If we de camp in wet conditions we usually take it to my mam's house where her garden is paved and just big enough for us to lay it out and keep turning if the sun is shining. Once when we returned home with a wet tent and the weather was still constantly bad at home we moved all the furniture to the sides of the living room and strung the tent up to the wall lights and over various items of furniture, we whacked the heating up and went out for a couple of hours, had to turn and leave a bit longer but it did the trick.
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Without wishing to come across as patronising, for anyone not aware, the majority of guylines are there to strengthen the erected tent.
For garden drying (both 3 pole, and 5 pole tunnel tents), we used to erect, and literally just guy out 1 line at front (tied to house), and 1 at back (tied to shed), to stop it falling end to end. Not one tent peg used.
If you have room to fully lay out flat, chances are you could get the poles in and stand it up. Would likely get a lot drier, a lot quicker.
Obviously, it ain't secure, so you'd need to be in attendance/keep popping out to check on it, but with a breeze and sunshine, it could be coming down again an hour later, ready to go back in the bag. Worked for us!
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Topic: Wet Tent can`t be dried outside
