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I think @B J G was referring to the “ Roof Load “, How much weight the Aluminium Roof can carry, not how much the roof weighs.
Yes - I had misunderstood. For some reason I thought he was referring to the load that could be left on the roof and the roof raised and stay up! Quite why I assumed that I cannot fathom.
An external topper, Comfortz or Rainbow, will keep the outside of the bellows dry. We've camped in some very stormy weather and have never suffered a leak from the roofless topper.
I think you’ll find the External Topper does exactly the same. Darkens interior, mutes sound and acts as a light/sun filter in summer.
We have an Isotop and have never had problems with damp on the mattress, we have left many sites after heavy rain and just closed the roof as normal.
The internal one has a waterproof membrane I believe so the wet bellows shouldn't make the mattress wet when lowered. But obviously the bellows will still be wet.. Just common sense to dry the bellows when you get the chance if they're wet. Like anything wet. How may wet times can wet say wet in one wet sentence?
Used Brandrup for 2 years and no condensation issues, whole set up easier to adjust for temperature and ventilation too as opening the inner vents allows a bit more air through from the outer tent which is ultra breathable on the T6 Cali
My other half went to see Wet Wet Wet at a festival but I didn't go I find the music as described frankly, a bit wet and i'm glad I didn't it rained so much she didn't just wet she got really wet wet though from some of the pictures I saw, I missed out on some involuntary 'Wet Wet Wet', wet t shirt competitions because it was so wet.
Yet another in-out debate. Is there no middle way we can agree upon?? Perhaps a waterproof, opaque membrane within the bellow fabric that can be deployed or retracted at the push of a button? Until that technology is invented we will all have to temporarily, for an indefinite period, drive around in Marco Polos.
I have had a comfortz topper for about 3 years and use it every time and it works fine and nothing ever gets wet, we have a routine when setting up and if it is wet when we take it off it gets folded up and put straight into a large Coleman dry bag, we move on to the next site and then straight back on, easy, other benefits is that it does store in the back rear seat section, in really cold weather we don’t think it is a very good insulator and can blow about a bit if it’s windy which is a bit noisy, in October our rainbow screen cover arrived after watching a bus and beyond review, arrived just in time for our weekend away, the quality is good, we found it a bit fiddly to put on but we did with the comfortz topper to start with so practice hopefully makes perfect.it looks good and it felt a lot warmer and quieter upstairs so all good, the only down side we experienced was we suffered with condensation which we have never had, we are going away for new year so will try it again and hopefully will be fine as we did find it a lot warmer and quieter than the comfortz
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