Our scout troop is looking at lightweight backpacking gear to purchase for regular backpacking trips, Philmont prep and Philmont trips. I had read on other threads where some crews had used the Oware Pyramid 10×10 tent to put four scouts in. It weighs less than 2 lbs so seems like a good tent especially with four in it. No gear in the tent, you have to put all of your gear under a dining fly at Philmont. One of the options on the Pyramid tent from Oware is to have netting installed on the bottom. What would be the easiest way to attach a silnylon floor to the netting? It needs to be durable too. I'm a novice, at best, at MYOG. I'm not sure if sewing it in would be required or if there is a taping product/technique. Thanks!
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Making a Floor for Oware Pyramid Tent
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Why sew floor? Just lay on ground. Netting can just lay against it and prevent bugs.
Just make sure the floor is at least 6 inches or 1 foot from edge, so water doesn't flow off tent wall, onto floor, where it will pool.
If floor is 8 or 9 feet square, you'll have to sew two pieces together.
Jerry – thanks for the suggestion. I don't think this will fly for a tent for scouts at Philmont though. I've never been so I could be wrong.Their planning guidebook and confirmation e-mail from their staff when I asked about using this specific tent says that it has to be a fully enclosed tent to keep out snakes, scorpions, etc. I'm interpreting that as the floor must be permanently attached to the tent walls in some shape/form/fashion.
I know this is a MYOG thread, but Bear Paw offers a netting-door on their big pyramid. You could inquire about making it a full net floor in additional to the door. Then you'd have full bug protection and could just use polycro groundsheets inside.
In terms of MYOG, sewing in a floor is probably the best way to attach sil to perimeter netting. At the expense of a little weight, you could sew velcro around the entire edge of the floor and the perimeter netting, so that it'd be removeable.
oh, scorpions and snakes, yeah, got to sew it
that would be fairly easy to sew
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