Novice camper with a wet tent...what do I do?!

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Leaving the campsite in Norfolk tomorrow, it's been raining this evening and will be again tonight. The tent will be sopping wet, what do I do with it? It will need to be in its bag for 3 days, does it matter? And how on earth do I dry it when we get home to our small garden-less house?
It's an Outwell thing, made of the usual stuff, not canvas or anything.

Any advice gratefully received!

It will be fine in the bag for 3 days.

How big is it? Depending on its size you need to either hang it up over the banisters/ in the bathroom, or take it to the park and put it up for an hour when the sun is shining.

remember to turn it over as well if it has a sewn in ground sheet.

Thanks Dusty, it's a 5 man tent so bannisters might noyt hold it...off to the park it is! It has, I will, thankyou :)

As well as the tent and SIG being dry, make sure the guylines and seams are also dry before packing away

use a tea towel and or a kitchen roll of paper and gie it a really good wipe over as much as you can when it is dry.

You could alway put the tent up at the park on a dry windy or sunny day and then pack away dry and blown trough making sure as the above poster says that all the seams etc are dry.

Ok thankyou! Good advice about the seams, I might otherwise have been tempted to cut corners :)

just a word of warning - i left a tent (a few years back now) that hadnt been dried properly and it went very very very mouldy and had started to disintergrate when we got it out a few months later - my mum was NOT impressed

We had a tent that was too large to hang on the bannisters, we had no garden, and dh refused to put it up again ANYWHERE. It lay limply and soggily in our hall, part draped over the bannisters, for over a week. I tried to move it around a bit every so often.

Once the rain had stopped I hung it on the washing line and left it there for quite a while

It was fine. Just don't keep it bunched up, or move it around each day, until you can hang it/put it up without rain.