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3 man Water resistant tents dunnes stores

  • 19-07-2010 1:27pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭


    €20 for these anyone think they would manage 3 days at the picnic if the weather was mank?

    I'm just slightly put off that they are stating water resistant as apposed to water proof.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 161 ✭✭NUIG_FiannaFail


    don't mind yer tents, there are some great deals in hotels around the place at them moment :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    water resistant means it'll take a bit of drizzle, but that's about it
    better to pay extra for a water proof one

    of course if it's for a music festival, I can understand alot of people might want to get a cheap one and dump it before they leave


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    Mate had one at Oxegen, was useless. Get a proper tent.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 393 ✭✭PeteEd


    bryaner wrote: »
    €20 for these anyone think they would manage 3 days at the picnic if the weather was mank?

    I'm just slightly put off that they are stating water resistant as apposed to water proof.

    Wouldn't last 1 day if the weather was mank!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,097 ✭✭✭✭zuroph


    arent they the single layer ones? disaster at any realistic rainfall.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91 ✭✭Keyser Söze


    their good if it doesn't rain


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭bryaner


    zuroph wrote: »
    arent they the single layer ones? disaster at any realistic rainfall.

    Checked one out today it has 2 layers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,097 ✭✭✭✭zuroph


    i'd still stay well clear.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 386 ✭✭Wudyaquit


    Useless if there's rain. top layer touches the inside layer and the water seeps through.
    Bought one last year and had a great snooze in the car.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭bryaner


    Ok I'm hearing ye, any idea where to get a half decent one at the right money?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,148 ✭✭✭ciano1


    My tesco 2 man dome tent survived Oxegen!! :D

    Those dunnes ones looked awful though!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,398 ✭✭✭baldshin


    Millets have a cracking sale on tents at the moment. Proper waterproof ones.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭bryaner


    baldshin wrote: »
    Millets have a cracking sale on tents at the moment. Proper waterproof ones.

    Sound just found this

    http://www.millets.co.uk/camping/tents/3-4-person-tents/product/093040.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,285 ✭✭✭eoinf


    I bought a rocky 3 in the irish millets or one of the other shops around capel street a few years ago , cost me ~€30 and its survived both oxegen & EP twice.

    Hose it down most years out the garden afterwards and dry it out.

    good advantage is it has a sheet in the "porch".

    no soggy knees or arse when trying to clamber in and out pissed as a fart.

    its fully rain proof with two layers.

    poles snapped on years and i knicked some out of one of the abondoned tents.

    anyway if you can spot it anywhere its well worth the price.

    The Gelert website has a RRp of £60 but there is no way i paid this price.

    http://www.gelert.com/products/Rocky_3.aspx


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,590 ✭✭✭Pigwidgeon


    If they're the same as the one they had last year you should be fine. I got one for oxegen, and it was one of the three we had in our group that didn't collapse or leak.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,181 ✭✭✭bryaner


    Got this today in Blanch


    http://www.millets.co.uk/camping/tents/1-2-person-tents/product/096162.html

    Should do the trick nicely cheers for the help.


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