Canvas Tent Reconditioning

In this video, we will look at all the steps necessary to fully recondition a canvas tent. We will remove stains in the tent, wash it, patch holes and tears in the canvas, re-waterproof replace a grommet, set it up and for the grand finale we will fold the tent in less than two minutes.

In preparing for this project, I called two tent manufactures to gather information and watched countless YouTube videos. After hours of research, I decided to make this video so all the information would be in one place and other people would not have to do the extensive research I did to gather simple information.

When I first started this project I thought, "It'll be a quick task: wash, patch and waterproof. A simple afternoon project". We spent an hour a day, over the course of several days, to complete this project. Some of the delays were necessary: to let the tent dry after washing, to let the adhesive on the patches dry and to let the waterproofing chemical dry/gas off. Some of the delays were also a lack of information: does the glue really work, does the waterproofing agent work and we decided to soak the tent overnight. Additionally, because the lack of available information and my lack of confidence in the limited information, we set the tent up between each step and inspected the progress. I hope that I can save you some research time and project time so you can spend more time out adventuring.

For this project we used a product named Tear Mender to patch the canvas and a product named Canvak to waterproof and fire retard the canvas.

Видео Canvas Tent Reconditioning канала Raised in Alaska