The tent and the sand/seashell mix ...

[Mickey Canada]

Hi everyone,

I was just wondering "what do you do" ....

Do you put a drop sheet or tarp under your tent before you stake it down? Or would it be better not to because the sand/seashell mix does a good job of shedding water away.


Your thoughts?

 

[BigDaddyRog]

This is an opinion thats worth what you paid for it, but the sand on the site is the most irritating stuff Ive ever encountered..it sticks to everything!!!! I covered my entire site with painters plastic sheeting, the sand will find its way into your tent, into your vehicle and eventually into your mind!!!! You just cant seem to get rid of the stuff!!! We had a couple of days that were pretty rainy and the water is pretty well drained off of the sand pad by sheer gravity.

 

[AuburnJen92]

We have have a pad's worth in the bottom of our MH. It multiplies when you get home.

 

[clkelley]

I'm with Rog!!!

Here is what I do. I put the cheap painters plastic down first. It can be bigger than the tent and you can drive a stake through it. Then I put my regular ground cloth down (6 mil plastic cut to fit the floor of the tent exactly).

I also put a sheet of 6 mil plastic inside the tent for any seepage.

The cheap plastic is to help with the sand. You just ditch that stuff at the end of the trip.

The 6 mil plastic is the water barrier.

 

[LarryJ]

We have have a pad's worth in the bottom of our MH. It multiplies when you get home.

We have very little problem, but I have a large outdoor carpet and we don't bring our shoes in the trailer past the small carpet just inside the door. We do get some of the stuff at the entry to the door on the inside, but the wisk broom every couple of days takes care of that. If you wear tennis shoes and don't outlaw them inside the trailer/MH that stuff will be everywhere since it gets stuck and lodged in the tread material.

Larry

 

[AuburnJen92]

I was talking about the storage compartments.

 

[djblu883]

i have a mini vac I use just for that purpose! I vac it about every other day but try to keep shoes out if possible!!! I'm thinking with all the folks we are taking this next trip I'm going to have a shoe box outside my door!!!

 

[LarryJ]

i have a mini vac I use just for that purpose! I vac it about every other day but try to keep shoes out if possible!!! I'm thinking with all the folks we are taking this next trip I'm going to have a shoe box outside my door!!!

What I did this last time is that I have one of the larger plastic totes that I had things like awning tie downs, deflappers, a couple of extension cords, some rope and just general stuff that I would use in setting up and I set that next to the door and that's where my shoes (slip on boat shoes) and things like flip-flops for the shower lived. With the wife's sprained ankle she had to use tennis shoes and a ankle brace so her's went inside the trailer just inside the door. We also kept our slippers there on a small plastic lipped drain pan/board that had ridges so any shoes put there didn't pick up that sand/shell stuff.

Larry

 

[LarryJ]

I was talking about the storage compartments.

Ah I see said the blind man . I only have one in the rear and it is carpeted, but still has the plastic on it that I have left on and I generally don't pull things out of it more than once when at any one site. Also, most of what is in mine is in the plastic storage bins that help keep down stuff getting stuck to them. My last trailer had vinyl floor in the one storage compartment and when the plastic that is now on mine rips I'm going to recover the carpet with some really heavy plastic I have or tear the carpet out and put down some sheet vinyl.

Larry