In the modern world, the traditions and way of life of our ancestors have begun to be forgotten. Today, summerhouse tents are the most commonly used tent, but many years ago people used them as homes. They built them from wooden frames, covering them with animal skins and plant leaves. With the advent of weaving, sails and tents began to be sewn. For many nomadic peoples, travelers, and traders, structures in the form of tents became their home. Among the peoples of the far north, the prototype of tents was yurts, which are still used to this day in Mongolia and Kazakhstan and are very popular among livestock breeders. In Persia, tents were made from bamboo canes, covered with carpets inside and outside. At the beginning of the 16th century, tents on wheels appeared, woven from twigs and covered with felt. Such dwellings on carts amazed the imagination of contemporaries. [contents]
Purpose of tents
Nowadays, having undergone transformation over time, tent shelters have become especially popular. Having a variety of shapes and dimensions, they are a permanent attribute of retail spaces and pavilions. Today, the production of such structures has stepped far forward. The simplicity of these designs is an advantageous, quick way to create a light, comfortable room of any size and for any purpose. Light weight, speed of assembly and dismantling, allows you to move such a structure to any place and in a short time. With their help, you can solve many issues: storage of building materials, organization of small industries and trade and exhibition spaces, pleasant time in nature, and the like. Due to its low price compared to a capital structure, a tent can satisfy some of the needs of small and medium-sized businesses.
Tents in our modern daily life are comfortable and beautiful. They are used to equip summer areas of cafes, cinemas, swimming pools, and ice skating rinks. It is thanks to the tents that oriental bazaars are full of brightness and color diversity. Wedding and party tents are in great demand. Setting up a tent is a great way to create unique outdoor celebrations accompanied by the rustling of leaves, birdsong and the scent of flowers. Season and weather will not be an obstacle, since guests can be covered not only from above, but also from the sides, and additional equipment will take care of a comfortable temperature all year round.
The tent will be an excellent solution for a summer cottage or suburban area. The original shape and design will fit into any landscape or become a completely independent element. A summer cottage tent will become a favorite place for tea ceremonies, family dinners, evening relaxation after everyday chores, and perhaps also a place for a business lunch. A marquee tent will provide an overnight stay on a camping trip, fishing trip, or will become a fun children's playhouse in the backyard.
Variety of shapes and frames
Tents come in open and closed types, collapsible and static. Based on the shape of the frames, the following types are distinguished:
- round;
- square;
- rectangular;
- triangular;
- multifaceted.
Tents have different types of roofs: spherical, conical, pyramidal, gable.
There are 5 main types of frames:
- Wood. Simple, eco-friendly and beautiful. To create it you will need: timber, boards of various sizes, nails, screws.
- Metal. Durable, reliable, easy to assemble if you buy a factory-made finished product. If you make the frame yourself, you will need the help of a welder and fastening materials in the form of nuts and bolts.
- Aluminum. It features a lightweight collapsible design.
- Plastic. The best tent for outdoor recreation. The design is the same as aluminum. It is a tent option for short-term recreation. It is better not to use it on an ongoing basis. For installation you will need special assembly components.
- Brick. Stationary and durable. The support posts are made of brick. For the construction you will need: brick, mortar for masonry. In its finished form, the name gazebo tent suits it.
Advantages of tents and requirements for them
The main advantages and benefits of tents:
- a light weight;
- ease of assembly;
- minimal maintenance;
- reliable shelter from the sun, wind, insects and other weather conditions;
- any size and area;
- variety of colors and textures;
- convenient storage when folded;
- transportation;
- easy installation;
- not flammable;
- strength and reliability;
- wide variety of prices;
- the opportunity to make a tent with your own hands.
Basic requirements for all types of tents:
- Safety.
- Sustainability.
- Breathability.
- Environmentally friendly.
- Comfort.
Why is there a tent at the dacha?
Most often, tent tents can now be found in country clubs, summer cafes and simple markets. They are popular for their mobility and high protective qualities. Tents can be used in different cases - it all depends on the shape and size. For example, traveling circuses and dolphinariums use large-area structures that can even be heated in winter, and at fairs you can find simple tents that can be assembled in a matter of minutes and can fit into the trunk of a car.
Not so long ago, awnings began to be used at dachas, because this saves them from the need to build a gazebo. One of the main advantages is the original design, thanks to which the structure fits into any landscape and looks extremely attractive. It can be either part of an architectural group or an independent element.
You can use a marquee tent for tea ceremonies, evening relaxation, entertaining children, picnics with friends or dinners with the whole family.
The awning has several advantages over other structures:
- light weight;
- ease of assembly;
- the fabric reliably protects not only from the sun and wind, but also from insects;
- you can make your own tent of any size and shape;
- the choice of fabric colors is practically unlimited;
- The tent can be stored folded;
- modern materials are absolutely non-flammable;
- you can make such a gazebo yourself or buy it.
Prices for tents vary widely; every family can find an option that suits the cost.
Types of fabrics used
Acrylic fabrics are a good covering for a tent. Water-repellent, non-fading, non-fading in the sun, temperature-resistant. Cutting and sewing from such fabrics is not an easy task, but the result will be durable and reliable. A wide palette of natural shades allows you to choose the right color for any exterior.
Polyester raincoat is weather-resistant, waterproof, easy to clean, and dries quickly. Disadvantage of the fabric: not too wide color spectrum.
Nylon polyester or mosquito net are additions to the fabric choice. Used for side parts or windows.
Curtains, drapes, and lambrequins for tents can be sewn from natural fabrics. Linen, jacquard, taffeta, organza will give a beautiful aesthetic appearance and comfort to this fabric gazebo inside.
Setting up a tent
An integral part of any design should be a drawing. With its help, you can accurately mark and assemble correctly, as well as cut and sew an awning for the walls and roof.
Place to place a tent
You can place your tent on the lawn next to your house. It will also fit harmoniously near a pond in a flower meadow and create a romantic look. A garden tent will work well in any part of the site. It is suitable for those who love silence and privacy.
Site preparation and arrangement
For the site, it is better to use wooden flooring, tree cuts, natural stone or rolled lawn. The selected area must be cleared and leveled. According to the markings, up to 15 centimeters of soil will need to be removed from the entire site, 10 of which should be covered with sand, and the remaining 5 cm with granulation. Don't forget to water and compact everything thoroughly.
After the tent area has dried, the base can be laid on the prepared pillow. Wooden flooring or saw cuts must be treated with an anti-rotting agent. For a simple, lightweight design, it is enough to mark the area and make recesses for support posts.
You will need the following tools:
- brace;
- shovel;
- buckets;
- hacksaw;
- hammer;
- screwdrivers;
- spanners;
- level;
- screwdriver
Installation of main tent poles
For a metal structure, you will need holes 50 cm deep. The number of support posts will depend on the shape of the frame. If it is a square there will be 4 of them. Sometimes an additional support post is used in the center. With round or multifaceted shapes, the number of supports can reach up to 8-10 pieces, depending on the size. Metal racks must be concreted.
Purchased
A purchased outdoor, summer tent, awning or tent for placement in the garden is inexpensive, and the tent is easy to assemble with your own hands. A quick-assembled, floor-standing tent, tent or awning of green color with a mosquito net looks organically against the backdrop of the garden landscape in the country, suitable for relaxing, picnics, and accommodating guests. Choose a tent, tent or awning for the garden based on a number of criteria:
- type of construction and assembly of the awning, marquee, tent;
- form of a quick-assembled tent or awning;
- size and capacity of the tent or awning;
- transformability of the tent or marquee model;
- by the presence/absence of walls of a collapsible tent;
- according to the availability of additional devices (windows, mosquito nets, etc.).
According to the types of awning, marquee or garden tent construction, there are:
- full tents;
- quick-assembled canopies in the form of awnings that are attached to the wall of the house;
- green camping tents in the form of tents.
The frame of a quick-assemble floor tent can be a cube garden tent, an elongated pavilion or a hexagonal tent (or other number of sides). Quick-assembled, summer, outdoor tents, tents or awnings for placement in the garden with mosquito nets differ in the material they are made from. Aluminum tents, tents and awnings are durable and lightweight, but are more expensive. Collapsible tents, awnings, tents and gazebos for placement in gardens at dachas are also made of steel or wood.
Roofs or canopies of quick-assembled, floor-mounted tents for summer cottages also vary in shape:
- cone-shaped awnings;
- domed tents and awnings;
- arched awnings and tents.
There are also different types of assembly: stationary tents, quick-assembled awnings for placement in the garden and camping tents and awnings for recreation, which can be installed anywhere in the garden, at the dacha or on a picnic.
For the walls of quick-assembled tents, tents and awnings for placement in the garden, waterproof green artificial fabrics are usually used. Some quick-assemble camping tents and awnings have walls that include two functional layers: one thick PVC for protection from rain, the other in the form of mosquito netting for warm weather when the sun is shining.
Depending on the capacity, tents or garden tents are divided into different categories: pavilions designed for events, tourist tents for relaxation with a mosquito net and accommodating 4-5 people, intended for camping or picnics, standard gazebos accommodating 6-8 people .
Decorating the tent
Individual decor will help to emphasize refined taste and boast of the attractiveness of the product. This is especially true for factory-made inexpensive tents, which are of the same type and are produced in hundreds of thousands. For decoration, forging elements, carved decorations, hanging fresh flowers, flowerpots, all kinds of lambrequins with pompons, etc. can be used. The main accessory inside will be pieces of furniture: wicker, carved or combined, corresponding to the general design style.
Soft pillows will add an accent of individuality; tablecloths and napkins with embroidery will add charm and sophistication. Stylized designer tents in Provence, country, and ethno styles are today's trend. Their price can be compared with the capital construction of a guest house.
Becoming the author of your own unique tent is in your hands!
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Parking technique and choice of location
This issue needs to be given at least a little attention, but this should not mislead you, since this issue is by no means unimportant. How you arrange your camp largely determines how you rest and your safety. There are many small amenities and benefits that can be built into when choosing a camp, such as getting the sun to shine on your tent earlier to help it dry out faster. Finally, a good view and fresh air are not the last conditions for a pleasant stay. In the tundra, in swampy and mossy forests, on wet river floodplains, it is necessary to choose a dry place for tents and a fire. Mosses, especially sphagnum, contain a lot of moisture and, when pressed, wet the bottom of the tent. Incomparably drier is the white lichen - moss (reindeer moss). Awning tents and hunting canopy tents are placed next to the fire on the windward side, with an opening from the wind to the fire. Two tents placed on both sides of the fire, face to face, although they cause turbulence and the wind throws smoke into one tent and then into the other, they provide more heat. All books for tourists give a lot of advice on how to hang a light tent, tarpaulin or large cloth from trees or stakes. We do not give their descriptions, since you yourself will figure out how best to arrange it on the spot.
Temporary canopies, huts
If you didn’t take a tent with you, and suddenly you simply need one, it’s easy to make a shelter in the forest - a booth - for spending the night. In front of the fire, two stakes with forks are driven in, a third is placed on them and several poles are leaned against it obliquely (at an angle of 45-60°). A roof is placed on these beams, best of all - large sheets of birch bark or larch or spruce bark (the latter is worse); both are easily removed from living trees in the first half of summer. To remove the bark from a larch, deep vertical cuts are made down to the wood, at a distance of about 0.5 m from each other, up to 2 m or more in length; at the top and bottom these strips are cut with large teeth, 10-20 cm in diameter; then the bark is torn off with an axe. This bark is suitable for permanent booths and for the roofs of houses, and lasts for ten years. If the booth is being built for a short time, then you can cover it with small branches of coniferous trees, laid in the form of tiles; branches should be hooked with branches onto transverse poles placed on the rafters. A thick layer of deciduous tree branches will do for a few nights. Branches and birch bark should be weighed down from above with several horizontal poles to prevent them from being blown away by the wind. The sides of the canopy can also be covered with vertical or slanted walls of branches woven around stakes or placed on slanted poles. The same temporary walls can be attached to a tarpaulin canopy. In the mountains, the basis for temporary housing can be large stones with a tarpaulin stretched over them or with a roof made of branches.
Tent life
There are many rules for tent hostels.
I will give just a few: Each inhabitant of the tent and each item must have its own specific place. Unnecessary items are placed in a high pile and covered with a tarpaulin or thick awning. On damp soil, place poles or stones under the load. If there is no soft bed, you can make a bedding under a tarpaulin from dry moss, lichens, dry grass, hay, straw or small branches (no thicker than your little finger): they are stuck in rows into the ground with the convex side up. It takes about an hour to prepare a good bed of twigs; branches of spruce, pine, cedar, and poplar are suitable. Upon completion of work, the tent, awnings and floor must be completely dried. In humid climates, you should not leave things to dry until the evening - they will become damp again. Under favorable conditions, mold develops very quickly and after three days it irreparably damages any item. Under deciduous trees, water falls on the tent for a while even after it rains. Spruce and cedar trees provide good protection from rain; you should hide under them when walking. When parked under the larches, raindrops cover the tent with black spots that are difficult to wash off. During the wind, not only the fall of trees, but also large branches (a more frequent phenomenon) is dangerous; branches break off on some trees, for example larches, also when there is heavy wet snow, while deciduous trees mostly just bend. Long periods of parking under some trees with hard leaves are also dangerous for a tent: for example, falling oak leaves greatly damage the roof of the tent, rubbing the ridge the hardest; It is useful to protect the tent with a light awning. The light source is usually a candle; it should be placed away from the walls and not brought closer than 20 cm to the dry roof of the tent. In the absence of candles and lanterns, you can use fat: it is placed in a flat bowl, plate, saucer, etc.: a wick from a rag is placed on the edge of the plate , braid, rope or twisted moss, half immersing it in fat; the wick must be pre-saturated with fat. As the fat burns and melts, add new pieces. A small flame that replaces a candle can be obtained in a small saucer, a tin lid, etc., in this case a small birch coal serves as the wick; The size of the flame depends on the size of the coal and the amount of fat. In such a lamp you can, for example, use paraffin from candles that have floated in the wind. Lighting with a torch produces a lot of smoke; for splinters, dry birch logs about 1.5 m long are prepared in advance; for winter you need about 4 m3. The splinter is fixed obliquely in a high stand above a vessel with water. It is worth looking at the following material: Camping sauna PB-2. Installation, operation, reviews. Tips for young travelers Basics of survival in natural conditions Clothing, shoes, equipment for hiking Unusual uses of ordinary things How to save life What to do if you get lost - burns
