Screen mesh sizes?

[MadMango]

I just returned from a small "staycation" where I went camping for several days. We had two tents, one was a fairly nice 3 Season 3-person tent, the other a budget 6-person family tent. Mesh on the windows were considerably different, and the family tent allowed biting critters (no seeums/sand fleas/midges) to enter through the night. I tried looking for mesh sizes or some other nomenclature, but all I could find was "micro mesh" or "no seeum mesh" as descriptions. I was curious if others knew of a proper name for the smaller aperture mesh material? I am considering replacing all mesh in the larger tent with the finer mesh to extend the serviceability of the tent.

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[MintJulep]

If ultimately this will be where can you get some.

[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.seattlefabrics.com/mesh.html#No-See-UM Mosquito Netting[/url]

 

[MadMango]

Thank you for the link, other sources pointed me to Seattle Fabrics as well. I must not be alone in my thinking.

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[dgallup]

http://techlist.sefar.com/cms/newtechlistpdf.nsf/vwWebPDFs/openmesh_EN.pdf/$FILE/openmesh_EN.pdf

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[VEBill]

Another solution: Hilton.com

 

[MadMango]

dgallup, thank you for that PDF.

Considering the cost of material and time to replace mesh, and age of the tent, I have decided to just purchase a new tent. The future wife won't like it, but I think she'll come around.

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[vpl]

The future wife won't like it, but I think she'll come around.

Want to bet?

Of course, I'm a non-camper, something made abundantly clear to my husband long before we were married (nearly 30 years ago.)

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[cswilson]

My wife says that camping is when room service ends at midnight...

 

[patprimmer]

The future wife won't like it, but I think she'll come around.

Man, how hard did you hit her!

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[MadMango]

She likes her old tent because she is used to it. It has this large screened vestibule which she likes, but on two past camping trips have never used. There are holes in the corners, several zippers no longer work... it is just showing it's age.

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[SomptingGuy]

If you can stand in a tent, it ain't a tent. Likewise if it has a sleeping zone, a lounge and a kitchen area, it ain't a tent.

- Steve

 

[MadMango]

There's some really nice "family size" tents that you can stand in, as long as you're not over 6ft. A little extra space is nice. When it was just me camping, I used a 2-person tent. When I got a dog I upgraded to a 3-person tent, as Fido needs to come inside sometimes as well. Now with the future family, I purchased a 6-person tent. The one I ended up with was the REI Hobitat 6.

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[dgallup]

Those are for "car camping" not real camping. Real camping requires you to strap your tent and everything else you need for a week on your back and hike off into the wilderness. Up hill both ways, snow up to your waste. And we liked it.

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[btrueblood]

Tents? Hah, we would've dreamed of having tents when I was a wee lad. Paper towels were all we had...

 

[MadMango]

I agree about the car camping comment, no arguments from me. I still have my 2-person tent if I want to do hike-in camping, but I also have an ultralight hammock/shelter/tarp that I also use if I'm trying to be a minimalist. I have to ease the family into my idea of "real camping", and I'll settle for car camping when nothing else is available.

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[patprimmer]

Well to me real camping is a motor home or a large A/C on site van with hard annex and concrete slab under it all. Less than that is just masochism.

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[dgallup]

I was on an island in Lake Huron with a girl who stayed awake all night because there were loons calling and fish jumping. Then she slept all day. She could not wait to get back to Chi town and get "concrete under her feet". Never saw here again.

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