Washing A Tent Carpet

You can even use carpet cleaner if you have any particularly dirty areas.

Washing a tent carpet.

Instead we use picnic rugs. Again follow the directions on the cleaner bottle to see how long to let your tent soak. Immerse the tent and the rainfly in the tub. A washer especially a top loader with an agitator can stretch or tear fabric mesh and seams.

This was the norm and is perfectly acceptable. Clean your tent after any long camping trip especially if it was exposed to sand fine dust bird droppings or tree sap. Family camping without a tent carpet. Dont do it.

If you do a lot of short trips give your tent a gentle cleaning once per season. Start to scrub the carpet with the cleaning solution. You want enough of the mixture on the scrub brush to get the carpet a little wet but not saturated. You may have to do this several times to get all the soap off the tent and rainfly.

They pack small are easy to wash and can be used as. Once you ve scrubbed the carpet empty the bucket and fill it with fresh water. Drain your tub and refill it with clean water. Never machine wash or machine dry a tent.

D irt and grime can take its toll on even the most durable tents but with a little cleaning you can keep your tent in good working order for years of backcountry adventures as backpacking season gets into full swing we asked andy coulter an expert in msr s repair shop for his advice on h ow to wash a tent. We camped for years without a tent carpet. Interested in how others have coped with this. Just back from a lovely trip to cornwall where the sun was shining but now have a rather large tent carpet that needs a good clean.

The easiest way to clean a tent carpet is to spread it out on level ground the garage floor or on the lawn if the weather s good vacuum off any loose dirt before giving it a going over with a carpet shampoo machine if you have one. How to clean a tent carpet your tent carpet is going to get pretty grubby but the good news is they re pretty easy to clean. Well are tent carpets worth it after all they can just be another expense on top of the cost of buying the tent. For this very reason we decided not to get a proper tent carpet.

I ve spent probably too much time washing tents in our repair shop. If your tent is small perhaps you could consider the picnic rug alternative. Dip a rag or terry cloth towel into the bucket. If its the earlier green and blue check type carpet from vango then dont put it in a washing machine it will be full of holes when it comes out or at least the top carpet layer will pull apart and show through to the foam underlay.