TarpTent Cleaning Q

Most likely the colour shift is from UV exposure.

Best to wash them with pure soap not detergent.

If the label does not specifically state “pure soap” it isn’t , it is soap base with loads of extra stuff added including detergents.

(soap : sodium (soda ash) or potassium (potash) salts of fatty acids is obtained by reacting fat with lye in a process known as saponification)

Probably time for you to get hold of a silicone waterproofing spray (Atsko is a good one) and give your Rainbow a new coat.

(silicone lubricant and silicone waterproofing sprays are not the same thing….)

Ta mate :-).

Is the ‘see-through-ness’ just the way it is from now on?

Is that colour shift irreversible then?

What is the silicon spray for exactly please?

Ta

Yes

Yes

Waterproofing, might add some longevity too.

Oh poo :-(. Wanted this awesome tent to be my last one I’d keep from here on…….by the look of it that might not materialise

They don’t make stuff that lasts anymore.

As my father used to say :

look at this shovel, it’s 40 years old. Three handles and two blades later, still looks like new.

BTW, UV levels here are pretty high so yes the fabric will degrade faster than in most other places.

So reduce to the time you have the shelter up during daylight hours.

( I have seen degradation on my water hoses in just one summer but it is a bit of a pain to roll them up and put them away every time I use them)

I have learned………not to leave tent up unused in the backyard. Not in use, take down store in black vaccume bag inside a locked toolbox which is then wrapped in 3 blanckets and placed in a cupboard and never open the doors to it.