Ground sheet for awning - help needed
we have an awning on the side of our Bailey Ranger and the ground sheet we have is letting in water when the ground is wet or it has been raining. Can someone please recommend a good ground sheet. Thanks in advance.
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All ground sheets have to be breathable otherwise over a matter of days it would kill the grass under neath, your ground sheet is quite normal. Try going on an hard standing pitch.
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Having a river flowing through your awning is considered a true rite of passage to a proper camper......you just build a bridge. Pallets are useful sometimes........🤣
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We use the type of breathable groundsheet as in the picture below. We also always use hardstandings in the UK but the groundsheet does sometimes get wet. The advantage of the breathable groundsheet is that, although it does sometimes get wet, it also dries out relatively quickly.
The old non-breathable groundsheet used to get very wet underneath, and used to stay wet, even after quite a long period of time.
I'd just stick with it and if it bothers you, use hardstandings wherever you can.
David
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Some dutch people on a site many years ago told us a trick which has come in handy over the years. Go to a pound shop or such like and purchase some plastic decorating sheets or you can buy on a roll from fleabay and cut to the exact size.
Lay this on the floor first, then add your breathable awning carpet on top. Even after two weeks you will not have damaged the grass in any way. This allows the air to circulate underneath because it is so light Trust me it works.
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We use those interlocking awning tiles, easier to wipe clean, easier to pack away and lighter than a ground sheet. Have bought them from local caravan shop, have seen them on Amazon and fleabay.
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Thank you very much everyone for your help and advice
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There's another downside to putting a normal ground sheet under your awning carpet - which I discovered last year. Thought I was being clever in stopping the new awning carpet getting muddy!
All that happened was that the water flowed on top of the plastic groundsheet and formed a large puddle in a hollow and couldn't drain away. It was actually worse than without the plastic groundsheet.
So I poked some holes in the plastic groundsheet to let the water drain away - which rather defeated the whole object of the exercise!
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Look out for interlocking tiles in Aldi. Excellent value compared with other outlets. We find them most useful around door on nasty hardcore like HS, YRPark HS pitches are awful.
OP, you need to check that the awning sides are not draining down onto the groundsheet. Neatest trick is to fold awning skirts inside awning, and then lay groundsheet onto this edging. That way water should run down sides onto grass etc... not onto your groundsheet. If it’s a breathable one, and the rain is very heavy, water soaking into ground may well make things soggy, even under your awning. Cue pallets.......
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I am unashamedly a warm floor in the awning person when the site permits an ordinary groundsheet. To achieve that I first put down the standard grey groundsheet that you can purchase from any good Leisure shop and they come in various sizes then on go the interlocking tiles. It’s a warm floor and a soft one too. I went to Softfloor for mine - they can be found on the internet. However, many sites now demand breathable groundsheets and for me, If I like a site, the site is more important than whether the awning has a groundsheet in it or not.
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If on hardstanding, buy a waterproof groundsheet that is slightly larger than the awning footprint, after you have erected the awning, lay the ground sheet inside the awning. even better if it has an internal mudskirt. tuck the groundsheet under the mudskirt, then put your carpet on top. the water cant get in and under the carpet.
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