Tent floor sealant.

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A month prior to my bike trip to Spain / Portugal and returning home via France, I used McNett tent sure to seal the internal damaged urethane floor coating of my tent.
During the trip, everytime I packed up, the airbed and bags, they stuck to the floor. Peeling off the coating.
Temperature was around 30°C.

Subsequently, when there was some heavy rain, water permeated up through the tent floor wetting my gear.

Any suggestions on other urethane floor sealants I could maybe coat inside and out with?

It would need to have flexibility to let me roll up the tent for packing.


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My thoughts on reading the header were that’s not going to work. I wasn’t wrong. Professional tent repair or tarp under tent which may or may not work. JJH
 
HD Plastic sheet from a builder's yard as a footprint, cut slightly smaller than the base of the tent.
 
Can you send it back to the manufacturer and ask them to put a new floor in the tent? :nenau
I reckon it’s probably out of warranty but if you like the rest of the tent it may be worth spending a few quid on. Or get a new tent and a footprint. :thumb2
 
I used Timolgras solution as a preventative to reduce damage to the tent floor from new and it worked well, used a plastic tarp from B&Q and pitched the tent above and cut it to the size of the inner tent. Suggest you find and independent camping specialist or boat sail specialist who does tent repairs to do a pukka job.
 
The tent in question is a Black Diamond Awahanee. Bought in the US a while back but not heavily used.
It is a single skin tent and the footing for it is approx the same tent floor dimensions. And that is the crux of the problem. Water rolls off down the tent and drips onto the top of the footing. Like a liquid sandwich.

One reason why I class it as a summer tent. Still, even in summer, it can still rain and catch me out.

Plan 'B' is to use a 3*3 tarp over it as a vestibule.

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The tent in question is a Black Diamond Awahanee. Bought in the US a while back but not heavily used.
It is a single skin tent and the footing for it is approx the same tent floor dimensions. And that is the crux of the problem. Water rolls off down the tent and drips onto the top of the footing. Like a liquid sandwich.

One reason why I class it as a summer tent. Still, even in summer, it can still rain and catch me out.

Plan 'B' is to use a 3*3 tarp over it as a vestibule.

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Fold the footing in so the water drips on the grass.

tom
 


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