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Subject Topic: Footprint/ground sheet advice
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Hi All,

I’ve just bought a Coleman Air Valdes 6XL and can’t find a purpose built ground sheet.

Does anyone have any experience or suggestions here? The tent measures 7.4m x 4.4m so a tricky size to just peg two together!


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I got a 7m x 5.4m tarp from Amazon for about £24, the brand was the Chemical Hut. Ultimately was too big for the tent I have so purchased a smaller one from them once I'd measured correctly. Perfectly fine for keeping the actual ground sheet clean.


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Thanks very much - I can find oversized tarps, but concerned about leaving too much exposed that would collect rainwater which would then be carried underneath the tent and negating the benefit...


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Just fold/tuck the excess back under the tent so the actual tent groundsheet overhangs the tarp.


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We put down a 4m x 5m cheapo Tarp, and on top of that goes 4m x 5m Butyl Rubber 1mm thick Pond Liner.

Needless to say, the 12 year old ZiG off our tent is still like new!


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We had to make our footprint smaller, like Pulster says, we just folded about 2ins down the middle and gorrilla taped it both sides.

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The footprint size sounds a similar size to a vango rivendale 800xl which I think is 4.4m × 7.3m


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