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Subject Topic: Pond liner as groundsheet: how thick?
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01/9/2010 at 5:34pm
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Been looking at replacing my 'chinese woven shopping bag material' groundsheets with a single piece of pond liner.

Thing is, should I go for the 1mm or 0.5mm thick? Will the latter suffice? Or do you think that a 1mm thick one to cover a 6m x 4m floor would be far too big and unwieldy to pack?

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01/9/2010 at 7:59pm
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I use a pondliner.....a thick black one....it packs down to the size of the tent carpet.....its brilliant. Ours covers the ground of the frame tent and goes up the sides about 10cm each side.

I`m thinking it can only be 0.5mm...but TBH I`m not really sure...it can`t be any thicker



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I use pond liner too, and I'd say it's 0.5mm at a guess. It's very strong stuff so I'd say the 1mm would be unnecessary.


02/9/2010 at 1:53pm
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Hi , we have used a 0.5mm pond liner before and it is pretty heavy. I would think the 1.0m stuff would be much too unweildy and very tricky to lie flat without wrinkles. 0.5mm will do the job for you. Alternative is a B&Q blue tarp for £9.50 with a couple of picnic rugs on top,

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