Tesco's tent - leaky!!!

Wig

Sounds to me like the tent was grossly inadequate, both for the amount of water allowed into the tent - which indicates it was not condenstion. and for the poor quality of zips and zip stitching.

Agree with Old Age Traveller, disagree with most of the rest.

One poster suggested that Tescos tents were for kids only, and another that Cheap tents basicaly should be expected to be cr4p. Both these views fall foul of the sale of goods act which requires goods to be suitable for all the purposes for which goods of the kind in question are commonly supplied. Expecting a tent to be waterproof & have good quality strong zips and stitching is of course perfectly reasonable.

adouglasmhor

I have a stripey 2 man pop up tent from Tesco which has survived a couple of fetivals and bike rallies with no problems at all. I got it in their sale for about £20, the only thing wrong with it is it's heavy.

I_know_my_ABC_and_my_CMYK

Brooker_Dave wrote: »

Possibly a good thing as it will save you getting laughed at by the people at tescos...

Well, thats 3 totally useless posts of yours I have just read, shouldn't expect anything else though really.

uktim29

Wig wrote: »

Sounds to me like the tent was grossly inadequate.

Or cheap because it was a Supermarket tent!

Here we go, soon as he see's this he's gonna tell me I have a "complete lack of understanding" about tents!

uktim29

I_know_my_ABC_and_my_CMYK wrote: »

Well, thats 3 totally useless posts of yours I have just read, shouldn't expect anything else though really.

Dave Brooker talks a lot of sense although compulsive cynics don't understand his logic & they'll thank posts like yours without question.

Honeydog

uktim29 wrote: »

Or cheap because it was a Supermarket tent!

Here we go, soon as he see's this he's gonna tell me I have a "complete lack of understanding" about tents!

You apparently have a complete lack of understanding about everything IMHO.





In an attempt to post something useful to the OP as well. I am going to suggest that if the OP waits til the end of the season they may well pick up a bargain as camping shops etc tend to sell off this year's models to make way for stock next year.

With something like tents where the failure can spoil your holiday I'd also be inclined to put it up in the garden for a few days after you just get it. That way if there is a problem you find out before you go on holiday and it is also easier to return stuff straight away. Plus kids LOVE tents on the back garden!

I'm also a great fan of reviews and if I'm going to spend serious money on something that is hopefully going to last I try to read up a bit before I actually go shopping. I've yet to spend money on something which a lot of people rated highly and to be disapointed in it.

I got the Vango because my hairdresser had been a Scout leader and they'd always used Vango Force 10s.

HTH HD

Wig

uktim29 wrote: »

Or cheap because it was a Supermarket tent!

Here we go, soon as he see's this he's gonna tell me I have a "complete lack of understanding" about tents!

Actually dh, it's the law that you don't understand, but there's no surprise there, you had already shown that in this thread.

uktim29

Wig wrote: »

Actually dh, it's the law that you don't understand, but there's no surprise there, you had already shown that in this thread.

Oh go on Wig, please explain. But before you go on too much about the meaning of "fit for purpose" I'd ask you would you expect a top of the range tent to be standing after a hurricane? Yes/No.

A hurricane is defined when the mean wind speed stays over 73 mph for over 10 minutes. Gusts happen to be more damaging than a steady wind though.

The wind gusted in the southwest to 60 mph that Saturday night, the rain was also torrential with many places getting over an inch of rain, some had four inches. I'll just add the winds gusted to only 13 mph less than hurricane force. Now I'd imagine you wouldn't expect a top of the range tent to last in a hurricane. You know they wipe out towns so I don't think "fit for purpose" would stretch to lasting through a hurricane.

So with wind gusts of only 13 mph less than hurricane force why would you be expecting a tent from Tesco to keep people completely dry?

I'll just help you with "fit for purpose" again. With strong winds even buildings made with bricks can have problems. So using the examples I've given above why would a tent be so special?

Wig

I don't see how you can generalise like that. You don't know where they camped. I have done a quick search of weather stations and found
Newquay
St Mawes

Newquay shows the max gust speed for the month to be 40 odd mph on Tue 26th, the avg windspeed would have probabaly been much less.
St Mawes shows max windspeed 21 mph on the 10th, max gust 32 mph on the 10th.

But anyway, yes, I would expect a tent to remain weather proof even in those conditions. The OP's tent allowed a large amount of water to either leak through dodgy seams or to penetrate through the nylon. And you are forgetting the zipper quality.

If they said on the packing "not for heavy rain use" I would concede, as they didn't, I'd expect it to cope with British weather.

Andy_L

Wig wrote: »

Both these views fall foul of the sale of goods act which requires goods to be suitable for all the purposes for which goods of the kind in question are commonly supplied. Expecting a tent to be waterproof & have good quality strong zips and stitching is of course perfectly reasonable.

probably not a breach of the SOGA. Tents, unlike clothes, tend to specify the level of waterproofness (is that a real word?) in terms of "mm of Hydrostatic Head". A quick look on tesco.com shows some of their tents only manage 1500mm which I'd wouldn't trust in UK weather.