Sewing bathtub floor onto Hexamid

I did it once.  I ended up selling it on the forums here but I can’t find my photos.  The Hexamid was too small for me.  Sewing the mesh wasn’t that hard.  I think I looked at how six moons designs and tarptent attach their mesh and floors.  I sewed the mesh to the tarp and then went back with everything set up and marked and measured for it to attach to the bathtub floor and at the corners of the mesh panels.  I think I put a main vertical zipper at the entrance and had the mesh overlap the bathtub floor by several inches at the entrance but had it unattached across the bottom.  Velcro will make a mess of the mesh by snagging when packed.

Actually you can see pictures if you go to my profile and see where I sold it.  Scott

Thank Scott, I’ll take a look. I thought I’d just secure the cuben floor (that’s already hemmed) to the netting floor with safety pins, inside of the tent. Then take a light grey Sharpie marker and draw a line on the netting about an inch below the hem on the cuben floor, After that I could unpin the floor and the netting, then cut the netting, Next step would be to fold the netting over 1/2 inch twice and sew each time. Lastly I’d sew the hemmed netting to the cuben floor.

I just don’t get it.   Why do you want to do this?
Come to that, why did Joe want to do it?  (I doin’t think he did, really.  He secretly hates the sewn-in design).

The removable groundsheet is the best feature of the original Hexamids.    You can:
(a) take your time pitching securely in pouring rain with the groundsheet safe and dry in your pack;
(b) dry it more quickly and easily;
(c) use it to cowboy camp;
(d) replace it when it wears out quicker than the tent –  as a cuben groundsheet surely will.

The under-netting is the best and simplest engineering solution.

You want to do a bunch of annoying sewing, to lose all these benefits, in return for an ounce?
Just get a haircut instead.