- Good day folks, Ben from Snowys here today taking you
for a walkthrough with all the features
of this Dometic Pico FTC 2x2 TC
Inflatable 2P Swag. (upbeat music)
This is a complete polycotton canvas swag
with inflatable air poles and an integrated inflatable mat
that packs up inside this bag here.
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Now we're down in the park here
at the end of the street where our Adelaide store is
so we've got a bit of traffic noise in the background
but we wanted to get this tent set up here
on this swag, sorry, on this nice sunny day.
And the big benefit
of these Pico swags is this whole two person swag
and the mat inside here only weighs about 11 kilos
and it packs up inside this bag here,
which measures around about 60, 70 centimetres in length
and about 30 centimetres in height and depth.
That depends on how tight you roll it up.
And that pack size
and weight includes the pump that you need to set it all up.
So there's two inflation ports on the end
of the tent or into the swag that we'll show you shortly.
This attaches to to inflate the entire thing.
This pump has got a valve on top here
that shows you the psi that you're pumping it up to.
So nine psi for the tent, two psi
from the mat inside and it just inflates
on the downstroke but it's a nice easy to use pump
and this foot on the bottom unscrews to lay flat
inside the swag when you pack it up.
Now the tent is made from a 210 GSM polycotton canvas.
Now I think it's got a high percentage of cotton in.
I haven't been able to get the balance
but it's not actually seam sealed but that means
that it's got that traditional sort of feel about it
whereby you season the swag, the seam sort of swell
and that's what creates that waterproof nature about it.
It has been tested to, the rating I got
from Dometic is up to 60 millimetres of rain per hour.
So it is reliably waterproof.
Just doesn't have that seam ceiling on the inside
but it's a good quality fabric.
You get these included alloy adjustable awning poles
with it and all of the guy ropes are this nylon webbing.
So that's the same as the nylon webbing here
and all of this here is the same polycotton canvas.
The base of the swag however,
is the polyethylenes tarp type material.
So that crinkly tarp type material
that's a really durable material.
It's something that never seems to wear.
It doesn't have a waterhead rating
'cause it's pretty much impermeable to water.
Now this end of the swag we've got our inflation port.
So this one here is the one inflation port
for all of the poles inside the swag there.
So this has got a cap on top there at the moment
and there's a little one-way valve inside there.
So when I take this off, it doesn't go down.
It's not until I remove the second piece
that the swag actually deflates.
Moving around from that
down the bottom is a second inflation port
and this actually inflates the mattress inside.
So using the same pump, same type of valve
on the end there to inflate the mattress inside.
At the bottom here,
really easy to use pegging or guy rope system
just a little plastic triangle there
for the peg to go through.
And then this guy rope is all integrated.
It comes out to the peg here
and then it comes back up to the top here as well.
Now on each end of the tent we've got this weather protected
or instead of awning, weather awning over here
a storm awning that goes over the top
of the window that's got an internally adjustable panel
which we'll show you shortly inside.
Not much more to see on the in there.
You've got these, the guy rope on this.
This features on all four corners.
Around to the back of the swag here,
not much to see.
There's no doorway on this side, it's just on the one side.
But this is a good spot to show you this weather skirt
that they've got around the bottom here.
So this fabric is waterproof,
these seams are gonna be waterproof as soon as
it's all well seasoned.
But the spot where things can leak is where the floor
and the upper are adjoined together.
So where this seam occurs that they could be leaking
they've placed this skirt over the top so the water runs
over the top down and well clear of that join there.
The other end of the tent here,
nothing different than what we saw at the first end.
We've just got the storm awning
over the top of a window there that's internally adjustable
but coming around to the front we'll talk a little bit
about the awning or doorway here.
Now this has actually got
well these are all included but these can be removed
and it's actually got this little kind of gusset here
that I guess provides a little bit more protection.
You don't have to have that done up
but if I undo that, you've got this gap here.
If you do it up, it just sort of pulls this down,
maybe helps a little bit of water runoff
and also just gives a little bit more protection
in under here 'cause this doorway does sort of come up.
So you could use this in rain I suppose.
That just gives you a little bit more
a little bit more protection from rain
just in that point where the door is close to the top here.
Now I've got this set up as an awning
sort of running back like that.
You can shorten these poles down if you like
to have it running bit down this way away from the tent.
So you've got options there
on how to set it up or just take it off completely.
These are really easy to use guy ropes here,
nice and durable guy ropes too.
They're not gonna break at all.
So you can take this down completely
and if the weather's really bad, zip it completely close.
So there's a nice big zipper pulls here
really easy to grab, that zips all the way around.
And you've got a nice big storm flap
over the sides of the zipper here.
Big overlap there.
Big overlap right down over the top
of the zipper there so that you've got
it's really weather protected when you've got
these zips closed completely.
Can see those brass eyelets
on the corners there that I use
whether it was set up as an awning.
Alternatively, if I unzip it, if it's a warm night
I don't want lots of ventilation inside the tent,
I can roll this up and use these tabs
at the top here in conjunction with the tabs
in underneath to secure it up and out the way
so that I can allow the breeze into the tent.
Probably need to undo the gusset
on this side as well so that it rolls all the way up.
And if we use this in conjunction
with the windows that I'll show you shortly
on the inside we've got ventilation
on three sides of the tent.
So underneath the the doorway here
we've got this really durable mesh
whether it's midge proof or not, I don't know,
not many meshes claim to be completely midge proof
but it feels like a really durable mesh.
It's not something that's gonna sort of wear out
or get caught up if it touches Velcro or anything like that.
It feels like a really durable, strong mesh.
It's got really big zipper pulls on it as well
easily unzips and we can roll that up as well
and secure it up the top here.
There are tabs under here so we can secure that
up and out the way as well.
We're crawling inside the Pico two by two swag here.
We'll first talk about the mat.
So this is an air-filled mat.
It's about three to four centimetres thick
and it inflates to about two psi is what they recommend.
So it's got all these dimples in here
so it's kind of an eggshell type mat.
You can obviously fix these
just like you would any inflatable mat.
This is what makes it unique in that it packs up
so small and you can replace this mat if you wanted.
You could take it out completely
and just use a regular mat inside.
You can see at the end here
this little port here is where the valve attaches
to the outside of the swag.
So that can be easily pulled through there.
And then the mat itself just attaches around the sides
of the air poles here with Velcro underneath.
So it's easy to actually take the mat out
and replace it or leave it out
and put a completely different mat inside if you like.
Now in terms of space inside here,
this is a two person tent.
So you've got 140 centimetres in width
and it's 215 centimetres
in length and it's quite rectangular
in shape so there's no tapered sort of edges.
And the ends are everything are all pretty upright.
Even the sides here are quite upright.
So I can lie right over
at the side here and have plenty of space.
So I'm 185 centimetres, so I've got heaps of room here
head space there, and I've got space for my feet at the end.
So lots of room.
And in terms of height, it's about 90 centimetres
to where the bottom of the air pole is across the top here.
Now we'll get into air poles shortly.
I just wanna run through the features inside the tent first.
We've got this end, we've got this
internally adjustable storm flap here that goes.
So this flap, the weatherproof section is
inside the mesh on the outside here.
We can't open that mesh there,
it's just there for for ventilation.
So if we open this to the other end and the door
we've got three sides for ventilation.
Coming around to the back of the tent here,
we've got a little storage pocket here
same mesh just to store your essentials at night.
Moving across the back,
no rush to see another storage pocket
at this end here just for essentials.
Another internally adjustable flap at this end
so we can open that up for ventilation.
In the corner here is a a power access point.
So this is in underneath the skirt that runs
around the outside of the tent there.
So it's weather protected.
This allows power to come inside here
and you can secure your power cord
by the Velcro tabs that feature up around the top here
and then across the top of the pole here.
And it finishes where it gets to a little metal clip here.
So you can hang a lantern on that.
The air poles are pretty strong
so you can hang a reasonably heavy lantern on that.
But if it's too big then it's gonna hang down
in the middle of the swag and be in the way anyway.
Now next to that there is a Velcro strip
that runs probably,
almost half the length of the centre pole here.
That's probably there
so you can attach a LED strip light if you like.
If it comes in one of the sort
of covers that have got the Velcro strip on it.
The last thing I wanna talk about while I'm inside
and the easiest place to talk about that
is down in the corner here are the air poles.
'cause people are usually concerned
about the air poles popping
or you know, if they deflate what happens
but they're probably actually more serviceable than
let's say metal poles for the most part
because if these get a hole in them,
you can repair the hole.
So there's a zipper that runs over the cover here.
So inside here is a TPU bladder.
It's Velcro closed at the moment so I can't unzip it
but if you do happen to get a hole in the frame
little bit of mucking around
but you can take it out of this bladder here
find the hole, patch it, and put the frame back if you like.
On top of that,
inside here it does have this extra layer over the top.
This is actually the part that sort
of secures the frame into the tent itself.
So this is the tent fabric and the frames inside here
but all of this stays in place.
There's only a small portion of it
at the bottom here that's actually in touch
with the ground and that's protected
by the actual floor fabric anyway
so there's very little chance you'd actually get a puncture
in the airframe here.
The beauty of the airframes is if something falls
on the outside or if the wind is really bad,
this just kind of collapses down
like this and then pops back into place.
If that happened with a steel or an alloy frame
the frame had been, would be wrecked
and you probably wouldn't be able to repair it.
So it's much more forgiving in really bad weather
and it's also really easy to pack up.
That is a rundown of all the features
of the Dometic Pico FTC two by two TC swag.
This is the perfect swag for people who want
that swag experience but don't have the space
to pack a really big swag into their smaller vehicle.
'cause this has got that integrated inflatable mat,
that integrated inflatable frame
that not only makes it super easy to set up and pack down
but also makes it really compact for transport.
You can check these out online or you'll find 'em
at our lowest prices every day at snowys.com.au
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