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Quote: Originally posted by Wet_but_happy on 11/6/2010

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.  This was the tent's first outing from new

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I would get straight back to SunnCamp then and see what they have to say. I'm not 100% up on polycotton tents but it would be very rare for a cotton tent to leak like this unless the flysheet was either contaminated with something or the rain was just about horizontal and hitting at gale force.

You don't say how old it is,how often it has been used, or whether the flysheet leaked water because some thing was touching it during rain?

As a guide I have always re-proofed my cotton tents after about five years. I always used to use Fabsil, but have recently tried the NIkwax re-proofer as it also offers a fade protector.

Earlier this year I came across a product called Storm, re-proofed my daughter's tent with it, but it hasn't rained since.

Tazz