Keeping you tent dry inside
I recently exprienced something that I had miraculously never had to deal with: a night of heavy rain followed by packing up in the rain.
Unfortunately, water did leak in during the night  .
Partly, I think there was splash-back from the ground, up past the flysheet, onto the poruous material of the tent. However, I recently tested the groundsheet of my tent and it also appears to be letting in some moisture.
So two questions:
Should the footprint extend past the edge of the ground sheet to keep the tent away from the wet ground, or should it stay just within the boundary to avoid splash back and pooling or water over the course of the night?
What might I treat a groundshhet with to re-proof it totally?
Unfortunately, the manufacturer is not gracing with me with a response to this same question...
Thanks for the pointers!
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