Any sturdy tent has a life span, and proper maintenance can add a lot to the life of the tent, and the method is simple:
When you buy a new tent from an outdoor store and come back home, remember to put a layer of glue on the waterproof seam of the tent. Why? Because from completed to send to the store and tent to your hand, we don't know how much time passed between, although you may be in the shop after a detailed check, feel nothing shortcomings, tent but good to have a comfortable feeling, making waterproof measures once again!
Practice putting up your tent! If you arrive at the camp, you will not build your own tent. This is not an embarrassment. Being familiar with your own tent can help you avoid being overwhelmed by emergencies. Improper building of a tent can easily cause damage to the tent.
Try to keep the tent dry and put the tent away! After you finish your outdoor trip, remember to hang the tent up and dry. If the tent is a bit dirty, gently scrub it with cold water! Do not use chemical lotion, or scrub vigorously, which will destroy the waterproof membrane on the surface of the cloth and reduce the waterproof effect of the tent. The moldy tent can damage the water resistance of the tent. In case of mildew, use a sponge to gently scrub the mold.
When camping in the wild:
Choose a flat base camp, and remove the debris from the camp site as much as possible. This will avoid the discomfort of your back when you sleep, or you can avoid the puncture of the tent.
Prepare additional cloth, the cloth down under the tent, in the tent inside or outside, but on the outside can not only make tents to keep clean, also can avoid the ground stone or branches to cloth tents itself. Don't put your shoes in when you enter the tent. Sunlight intensity of ultraviolet radiation can destroy the tent fabric, if there is no redundant shade can cover the tent camps, it is recommended that you set up pairs will cover the sun, avoid direct sunlight to the tent.
Tents, it is best to camp tents with nails fixed on the ground, although now the tent camp mostly do not need to nail you can set up complete independently, but is the power of nature is limitless, don't assume that tent someone or a backpack and do not have a thing, according to the author's experience, when nature show strength, tent, along with the people inside the same run! Make sure your tent is well ventilated! Because when we go to sleep at night, the body of the tents of the khan gas and out will increase air humidity, assuming that within four people sleeping in a tent, a night time can be accumulated up to 1 liter of water, if there is no good ventilated sex tents, it must get up in the morning for four sleeping and sleeping MATS are all wet.
Before you take the tent, make sure there's nothing left in it.
When you combine a column, you can combine it in one section, not the other way. When the column is removed, it is removed from the center and the ends are removed so that the elastic core of the elastic rope can be maintained.
When collecting, do not use the same way to fold inside account and rain cloth, this will speed up the crease part of the fabric damage, it is better to fold in different ways each time.
Tent repair
After repeated use of the tent, there will be damaged areas, usually broken parts, mostly stitches, rain cloth holes, and ground cloth seepage. The damage can be repaired, and the rupture and damage of the column is usually replaced by the replacement of the new column directly, so it is no longer particularly relevant here.
The following is a simple way to introduce the stitching:
stitching
When doing the stitching waterproof, first to determine whether you need to do waterproof, because not every stitch is needed stitches rubber processing, is often exposed to the rain, puddles on the stitching glue are needed stitches, so ponchos, cloth stitching is must do the waterproof, as for the account of the lining, because does not directly exposed to the rain, need not busy!
Followed by rubber processing decided which side to do the joints and generally are usually in pairs and the inner side of the cloth, correctly said that should be on the other side of the waterproof membrane, also is not do waterproof membrane processing side can use suture glue. The easiest way to do this is to drop some water on the surface of the cloth, and if you still keep the shape of the water droplets, you have a waterproof membrane covering it, and if the water is going to fall out, that side is your target.
Next the stitches glue is about to begin, prepare a clean and dry toothbrush, remove the old brush, then stitches glue daub on the suture, after suture glue dry, add fabric tension suture spread glue can penetrate to the joints and after waiting for another hour, such as suture after the glue is completely dry is complete! Finally, use sprinkler to determine whether the water will not leak, if there is still water leakage, you will need to wait for the fabric to dry completely and then repeat the previous four steps!