Small Garden? Where to dry my Tent?

So, you’ve packed your new tent away after it’s first outing, and guess what, it rained for the whole duration of operation tent pack down! You’re going to have to dry it out in your back garden when you get home…..But what if you don’t have a back garden, or your new Air Tent is bigger than your patch of grass? Putting it away wet is a no go, it will get mould or mildew, the material can rot, and at the very least it will make your tent smell bad.

Some of the modern tents these days are enormous too, so drying them out is no mean feat. The new Outwell Greycliff 7SATC Air Tent is almost 8 metres long by 5 metres wide, and tents like the 12 person Vango Diablo 1200XL AirBeam Tent, as well as housing housing half a classroom, will take up considerable space to dry out.

Here at World of Camping HQ we’ve picked up a few tips from our customers to try and help if you’re stood scratching your head wondering where you’re going to pack away your Drive Away Awning and you don’t want to go next door to ask your neighbour with a bigger garden!

Washing Line

It’s the place you hang the rest of your gear out to dry, so when your sleeping bag has dried out and your tent carpet has been washed down and dried off, pop your tent on it. You might have to move it around a few times, but on a nice sunny day it should do the trick for you.

Trampoline

If your washing line isn’t strong enough but you have one of those massive trampolines taking up your whole garden and killing all the grass. Ban the kids from it for 24 hours, turn it over after a few hours and you’ll be quids in.

Bannister

If you’ve got a nice big banister (and preferably a wooden floor as opposed to a nice carpet) then hang the tent over it. Leave a couple of windows open to get some air flowing and it’ll dry off in no time.

Garage

If you have some hooks on the garage walls, carefully hang it up, ventilate the room, or leave it open. Some of our customers hang their tents over the roof beams, or you could screw hooks into the beams yourself. If you have a dehumidifier at home then stick that on to speed up the process.

Conservatory

Move the wicker chairs out of the way, chuck the home and garden magazines in the recycling and spread the tent out in there, open a few windows, ban granny from there for the afternoon and you’ll be sorted.

Driveway

If the tent isn’t too big, you don’t have a garden but you have a drive, or a couple of parking spaces, stick it up on the tarmac. Particularly with air tents, they go up in no time. Sit and read a book for a couple of hours and get stared at by your neighbours a few time, and before you know it it will be bone dry!

Go camping again……

If all else fails, just book a pitch for the following weekend somewhere and hope it doesn’t rain 😉

However you do it, once you’ve packed it away nice and dry you can be happy in the knowledge that your tent will have a long and happy life.