So all these vloggers travel the world bringing us loads of amazing content and what do we watch??? David muttering away putting together an awning! Totally captivating!❤!

Watching you put together that "6 person living space for 15 quid from Tesco" was the perfect parable for man's struggle against, and ultimate triumph over, adversity. This will go down as one of the greatest lessons that this generation has ever produced for the ages. Bless you David. May you continue to inspire us all for all time.

My rule of tent capacity: Divide by 2 then subtract 1, rounding down. So this can comfortably fit 2 people. By this rule any tent capacity less than 4 can fit exactly 0 people comfortably.

A clear shower curtain would be nice for the one side, preserve the view and the light. A smallish tarp for the door that can be magnet-ed to the van roof to give you protection for both the van door and the shelter entrance.

"It's September, obviously it's almost Christmas" Christmas creeping up the calendar like Hannibal over the Alps my goodness

With over 400 comments already, I don't know if anyone mentioned this yet. On a dry, fairly sunny day, open up the tent to dry out completely. Putting away an even slightly moist tent into a cupboard or closet will cause it to get moldy. When it is very dry, then you can spray it with mold resist and waterproofing, and then let that dry.

I thought that you would acquire an audience while you were putting that up, it was even more entertaining than your shower tent. The amazing way it went back into its bag meant that it was worth every penny of its price, though.

We use ours quite a bit. It protects from mosquitos , drizzling rain and hot sun

David, have been missing Vandemonium films, MORE pleaseeeee 😂😂

That lady watching from behind the white van 😂

All men know from experience to trash the instruction sheet and to go on raw masculine instinct! :)

I was briefly thinking you might want to take down two of the larger B-poles on the side facing the van to see if you could get the whole thing snug against the fan door. But you might be better off getting a decent sized tarp, so you could tarp from the roof rack over the tent, and off the other side a bit to give you a double awning. That way you could effectively have a vestibule that's relatively weather resistant. Just make sure there's a decent slant to funnel the rain off in a desired direction. :)

I suggest you replace the guy ropes with reflective rope. It's hard to see the black lines, especially at night.

Carry on camping !!! As a long time follower this is second in comedy value only to the re-fitting of the shower on your boat, which is still absolutely comedy genius. Nice to see you back filming, take care mate

Almost an outtake from “Carry on Camping”. Very entertaining David. 👏👏👍😎

I love watching you build stuff with complicated and bad instructions. Well done.

I was very impressed when you actually packed up the "Extra Room" into it's oroginal carrying case, I raely accomplish thgta task correctly 👍👍👍👍 🚗🚗🚗🚗🚗👍👍👍👍

I enjoyed that. "This is my view", was perhaps the most entertaining moment!

Hi David, The simple Aussie solution to your tent problem is buy a good quality large SILVER tarp and tent poles. The tarp should be large enough to go over the tent AND campervan. Secure with guy ropes.(poles tilting slightly lower behind campervan, so rain will drain away. Not only will the tarp will ensure your tent stays dry, but also prevent it getting too hot too quickly on those rare sunny days!

Brilliant!! Putting the "tent" up was very reminiscent of your bread making episode on the boat some years ago. Lots of exasperated muttering and mumbling. Very entertaining.

I'm proud of you, David. You muddled through sans outside help. Congratulations! It's actually more a sun shelter with the insect screens, not really meant for rain. But then as you say, you are in England. Thanks for the video. Jon

I LOVE YOUR VLOGS! Thank you for taking me/others to a wonderful world of peace and normality. I'm always challenged by your minimal living standards and learn something new. 🎉 💙

This is precisely why I don’t read instructions. They’re always more confusing than just trying to work it out on your own!

Hi just a word of advice put at least 1 peg into the ground just to temporarily hold the tent just in case a gust of wind comes and the tent will be off 😂😂😂

Would be great to sit in when the midgies are out and about, especially here in Scotland.

Hello David, you might want to pick up a plastic ground cloth to lay down first, under your tent floor. Doesn't need to be much, a painting drop cloth will do nicely! Keeps your tent floor a lot cleaner and gives you some extra separation from the mud. If you get a cheap enough one, you can just pitch it, if it gets too muddy. Be sure to tuck the sides up neatly under the tent floor edges or it will gather water during a storm!

A semi waterproof tent with two open sides.... I suppose £15 for 20 minutes of entertainment for us KZfaq punters is pretty good value. Perhaps part 2 of the episode could be you taking it to the household recycling centre.

You need a rain fly. That's basically a tent for your tent. It can also help to keep it cooler inside in hot weather and warmer in cold weather. To dry it out or get any dirt out I would usually just pick up the whole thing, tip it and shake it. And if it gets too wet, you can always take it to a launderette and run it through the dryer. (Near Gettysburg one night I told my son, "I don't think we'll need the rain fly tonight...." ) In that beautifully soft English earth you should never have to adjust the length of a tent line. Just move the stake and press it in. (I spent a few months camping in the UK and Ireland and put in every stake just by pressing down with my foot.) Tip: My first two days hiking in Dorset (in the rain) I lost two mini stakes. At that rate.... So I tied lengths (6 - 8") of orange paracord to each stake - just as a Please Find Me Tail. Over the next three months I didn't lose any more stakes. (I have similar tails on my remote controls and other camping bits and bobs, like fire starters. I have to make things idiot proof, because... Do I really have to explain?) & I use a small piece of yoga mat (24" x 24") as a door mat. Keeps the dirt out of the tent. Backpackers call them butt pads.

I think your dry wit would be brilliant if you did some stealth camping in a tent comedy gold😂

That is a Score at that price and it doesn't look painful to setup and dismantle. 👍👍

Thank you for the reminder why I don't like tenting and why my 4-person tent has not seen the light of day for 15 years 🙂 £15 seems like an accurate value... Seems useful for getting out of the sun and keep the bugs from pestering you during lunch.

I suggest yo7 use a tarpaulin or groundsheet under the tent for protection.! 😊

🎶Way down upon the Swannee River Far far away🎶

You'll be very popular on rainy days if you slap some waterproofing on it.

Just caught this now, a few months after, and it just pure gold. Up there with your attempt at bread baking on CtC. I cannot emphasize enough how wonderful you are! Stay awesome. Cheers from a fan in New York City.

Always enjoyable to watch your videos, David. This was a good reminder to me of why I gave up on any kind of awnings or additional shelters when van camping. Mainly because I always end up an exhausted sweaty mess, before the holiday has even begun, and then just before going home. Plus putting them away wet, means extra chores when you get home.

Not through it yet, but love the concerned-for-David lady at about the 7:00 mark. lol

I’m sure you could run a tarp from the van roof (solar panel) over to the corners of the “tent” to avoid some rain.

That shelter is a bargain I would have picked up ás well! All of the suggestions below for covering with a tarp fastened to the van over top of the awning make good sense to me. You did an excellent job of repacking it all. It will be interesting to see further developments on this. Thank you for your work to share this adventure, cheers!

It is what it is, as you say. I would use a handheld karcher (or equivalent cheaper water vacuum, they are very small and often used on canal boats due to window condensation) to do a quick water cleanup after an unexpected shower. These living spaces are great to mark out your spot when taking a camper van out for the day and leaving some waterproof items like chairs behind.

Perhaps some sort of flap that you could put over the van and attach with magnets would have been a better design but then in principle a good idea and certainly a more cost effective option than an awning that you screw on to the van roof. A great review though and an interesting idea. Thanks David. All the best to you.

Super video David. I'm sure you'd win an Oscar for filming paint drying such is your ability to make the most mundane a must watch feast. On the subject of how you might modify you new camping tent to make it more water compatible, I would cut ourt and throw away the plastic floor. Without it any rain would just soak away into the ground and when it's dry it's just as pleasent to sit and eat your cheese sandwiches on a grass floor, as a plastic one.

Hi David, thanks for video. "22 to 23 degrees and clammy", be thankful for weather that nice. Since the first week of June, high daily temperatures have been 32 to 40 degrees with high humidity here in north central Florida. The only thing I could think of for your tent is to cut the vertical wall seams on one of the closed walls and use that for your flap between the tent and van. Sew some magnets in the fabric to stick it to the van roof. That said, this will make for a very flimsy setup; one good gust of wind and the tent could detach and tumble across the RV park. Camping tents certainly have changed since the 1960's. The fabric was heavy canvas that had to be re-water proofed each year. When broken down, the tent was a large heavy roll of canvas with a large bag of non-tethered aluminum pipes, ropes, and steel stakes. Setting up a 6-man tent was a multi-person job.

How timely, with all the homelessness these days you may have found your new forte, but I do miss those rather magical boat days, before all the current drama. Oh well, carry on and let it be known that many love your candor. :)

Watching South Korean camping videos these tents have plastic zip ins that replace the netting to stop the rain from coming in and they back there suv into one door and have a flap that connects the suv and tent together.

Quite a bargain, David! Hopefully, it will last for a while.

Thanks for the entertainment while I ate my lunch. I think someone below said it, just get a tarp to attach to the van and throw it over the 'tent which can also be tied down with stakes to keep it in place.

David,,,,you are quite delightfully a quintessential englishman mucking about with your hobby like the rest of us other daft englishmen. Very entertaining old chap. Love your ramblings sir.

Here's two ideas, one, buy one of those 10x10 popup canopys and put the screen house under it. Canopy keeps the rain out, screen house keeps the bugs out. Both usefull in their own right. The other way ive seen people do, which im not particularly to fond of is to just throw a giant tarp over the whole thing if you want to go the cheapy route. You might want to keep some scotchgaurd cans and some seam sealer handy, those water "resistant" fabrics repellancy dont usually last very long. Looks good though.

Hey how's it going? We haven't seen you in a while. I hope you're doing ok and keeping well. Missing your vandemonium vids. All the best, Mike

7:02 I suspect the lookie loo neighbor is why you were trying to set this up quickly and quietly. 😁I think a flap from one side to van would be useful to cut down water in case of rain. It didn’t look like so much in the end. I agree on a longer stay having that setup will be great to use your shower if not for more privacy then at least being able to stand on protected ground and having items outside the shower stay dry and close. I am impressed you got it back in the bag. Cheers.

No word of a lie; there I was, minding my own business with a silly smile on my face as I watched you faffing around with the covery, tenty thing and WHAM! A 'full-frontal' of your cheese sandwich and a cup of tea. Despite having eaten not that long ago, it instantly made me want one. Which I duly constructed and dispatched whilst watching the rest of your [amusing] vlog. They, 'people', could/should use you as some sort of weird subliminal cut or something. Is that still allowed? You'd be infamous in the [soon to be empty] cheese aisles up and down the country. A bit like Delia Smith and the sun-dried tomato debacle.

Got a similar tent we use on the beach and in parks for warm sunny days. It isn't water proof and won't resist much wind. We've had hours of fun using it!

Many thanks for info

I used to love the Krypton Factor as a child. 🤣😎👍🏼

What fun ! Thank you David.

A couple of inexpensive "rain fly camping tarps" could do the trick and be a multifunctional bit of camping kit as well. One rain fly could be secured with ropes, or pound shop spring clamps, from the top of your van, to the top of your living space. The second rain fly could be used to protect the second open side, by spring clamping it around the poles on the roof and then draped over the side and staked to the ground. Theoretically speaking.

Very entertaining, thanks.

The Met office gave us a warning. Hail stones 2cm in diameter. Not that it will happen now but that it is possible. And it is.

good to see you back

Great video, thank you 🎃

I applaud your perseverance and patience!

Ah Dave, I feel your pain, no matter what language the author originally wrote the instructions in they are translated to pure gobbledeygook by the time my eyes see them!! I thought you did very well at erecting and demolishing the structure. Looks like a great bargain for £15. Another fine vlog, thank you.

You made the breakdown of it looks so easy 🥰

You can get a water repellent spray that might be good on the top for extra protection (You get it for tent seams and such). For the screens, I have used a cover from some split heavy duty plastic trash bags. I sewed the velcro patches onto the screen and sides and used a velcro strap cut through the plastic. A shower curtain liner works even better. I did end up cutting slots in for ventilation.

That was fun to watch. Enjoyed it so much that I wanted to be there, rain and all!

Thank you Dave, I’ve never laughed so much for ages,sorry. The fast foreword bits had me falling over. Thenks again.

Well done David!

For the price, you have a nice selection of bits to make other shelters, awnings and such and you can add more as needed to your kit. For all that soggy ground, outdoor carpet helps control the mud.

Another brilliant episode just need to make more episodes 👍

Nice video, thanks David

Loving this vlog David. I like the idea of a light shower curtain that just might do the trick. Good luck.

Clever chap you! Always love your vlogs ❤

Brilliant. So entertaining. Well done. Thank you.

£15? You get what you pay for!! In the US, we call this a screen house. It’s only useful for an outdoor space to shield yourself from insects. You’ll need a rain fly….or tarpaulin, to also exclude the rain. I saw a suggestion for using a clear shower curtain liner. You could use some cord to suspend it from the outside corners of your “pavilion”. Magnetic ring hooks (inexpensive) could attach to your vehicle to create a small awning between your vehicle and the tent.

As with all of your videos, I found it interesting, informative, and captivating. Thank you!

This made me chuckle as I once had a similar struggle with a 'bargain price' polytunnel. Nice one David.

To my understanding the concept is that you whizz in, close the insect screen behind you, and eat, read, drink, chat in that.. When rain comes, hop back to the van, but until then you have an outdoor livingroom

Great value and you’ll have it up in a jiffy next time…good video, thank you

Lovely to see you struggle, cruising your tent 😂 thanks lots of fun!

LOL - It's like watching myself assemble the "living space", except way more entertaining because I didn't have to go thru the frustration of figuring it all out.

Always fun to watch you doing something easy making it difficult. You need to Scotch Guard it. A product which you either spray on or dap it on special to watertight a tent .

Bargain Dave 15 notes cant beat that get some sides sorted for it nice place to sit good to see you have a Top week 🙂🎥🎤✌️

It's such a fun video.

Wow, that's a great offer, only £15, and 9 free steaks! Lovely. And can you imagine putting that up in a little shower of torrential rain, and a high wind. You know, like what we have just had, guv.

Proper bargain, David. Well done you. Thanks for sharing

LOL, I love it, good on yer Dave.

Looking good! Here's hoping you can work out the logistics to stay dry, yet be cool when the temperature and/or humidity are high. After the work setting up this living space, it seems fairly easy to tear down again. Thanks, you've presented an enjoyable vlog, as always!

David, I enjoyed this episode. My experience with putting things together even with directions is very like yours. Thoroughly enjoyed watching you being put through the steps of finally getting that 15 £ tent (of sorts) up and functional. Well done. Another great video! Thank you! 😘

I LOVE your adventures! They are fun, informative and so good for me and others who can't get out and about. Your Deal trip was marvellous and brought back many happy memories of holidays in Kent. Please take care and keep these trips coming. 🎉😊

We have an awning mounted on the side of our 4x4 which will cover that gap. Thank you for an entertaining video David.

Thank you so much for an entertaining camping vlog. You did a great job. Love your show!

A suggestion. I am not a camper but have watched many videos. You might consider buying one of those open canopys and then put your little tent under the canopy. You would kill 2 birds with one stone in that you would be out of the rain yet still be able to enjoy the openness of the tent. I like it and I am sure you will get things worked out. Don H Ocala Fl USA

What a lovely video, David. Laughed long and loud watching your antics trying to erect the shelter. Thanks.

Enjoy your camper vlogs. Good luck with the tent in future camping.

David John's tent assembly program, good comedic fun for the whole family

Ha, ha that was fun watching you grapple with your new bargain tent. Well done, pity about the rain spoiling your fun. Happy travels.

I can see why it was only £15 now David. Best stick a drawer cord around the centre and use it as a giant poncho. Hope there is no wind. Best to cut and fold a 1/2 triangle of the floor back on 2 open sides.

put a couple pool noodles (or the like) under the floor to keep the water close to the screen and not making puddles from running in farther into the floor area.

great Vvlog David....... good buy with the Tent, I was thinking if you bring it right to the van with no spacing between tent and Van, right up close even touchin the van then the netting by van would let any rain in... or you could actually attach it to your van somehow.... even better, yes really needs to be right touching van no gaps...