Cuben fiber tent floor and unprepared sites

Use your foot, smooth it out, eyeball for any noticeably pokey things, remove, set up shop. I've never spent more then a minute doing this, and have never had any problems with cuben floors or neoairs directly on the ground.

I've had various cuben floors and exped pads for the past 3 years…and this past week I had my very first puncture. I was lazy and was obviously set up on a really sharp stick. I would have poked through anything….

I get about 60 nights a year in a tent, and this is the first time that's ever happened. And I keep my 80# pooch in the tent with me, regardless of floor type.

a small piece of cuben tape makes a permanent repair in seconds.

A few have complained of .74 cuben floors being easy to puncture, 1.0 is much tougher. If you want, you could ask Joe for a 1.4 floor, it would be extremely tough and weigh about same as silnylon.

I think you have to assume you will wear the floor out and get holes with use. It will have a life span, but during it's life it still be very light. The tarp might last you a lifetime, but the floor can always get repaired or cut out and replaced. I do think a very small 1.5oz piece of polycro under your sleeping pad will extend the life tenfold.

Thanks guys for all of the responses. Not quite so worried about it now that I have seen the feedback

The beauty of the Hexamid is that the floor is easily field repaired and also replaceable. No need for a ground cloth.

I had thought that if I got another ZPacks Hex tent, I'd cut a oval out of the bottom netting and just place my polycryo gc over that, to save a little weight. I should be getting my Solplex in a week I think, I special ordered it with the lighter cuben fabric for the bottom which is .74. Saving an oz. :) We'll see how it holds up with a polycryo gc under it, since I usually bring the gc anyway.
Duane

Question for Jennifer and anyone else who keeps their dog in their cuben fiber tent…do you take any precautions? Clip toenails just before going, lay down a protective layer inside the tent, make the dog wear booties in the tent…anything? I really want a ZPacks Hexamid Duplex but I always backpack with my dog and I don't want to damage a tent that expensive.

Dena, I never did anything with my dogs, but then never had tents as expensive as I have now. An old SD Half Moon was what I had with Pooch and the dobies when they were all alive. Seems the polycryo would be hard to keep in one place, netting bottom should be pretty easy. Good luck.
Duane

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