G'day! Kevin from Snowys here again. Today we're going to look at the
Coleman Chalet 9 Family Dome Tent. This is a tried and tested classic from
the family dome tents. One of our best-selling ones for years and now
I'm going to take it out of it's bag and show you how it all gets put together.
Okay, so what you get with the tent is, first of all, a carry bag that's a nice
strong bag, got wheels on it to give you, make it a bit easier for you to move
the tent around, you've got the main tent there, you've also got the fly over this
side here, a nice big strong bag of poles, bag of tent pegs, the repair kit - most
important in most of the tents and of course, your owner's manual to help you put it
all together. So first thing we do is we lay the tent out on the groundsheet, pull
it right out nice and flat, lay it out, out each corner, peg down each corner first and
then the rest of the pegs around the sides so you've got the whole rectangle
pegged down. As you can see the poles are colour-coded,
you've got yellow poles here which go on to the yellow pins and we've got grey
poles that go onto the grey pins as well. Get them all together first, lay
them out on the ground, you'll see that we've got four yellow and two grey, that
means that there are four points that the yellow poles attach to and two
points that the grey poles attach to. So what you also get with the kit is a
spare pole, these are really handy because if you happen to break a section
of the pole when it's up, if the wind blows it hard or if a tree falls on it,
you've got a spare section with you that's part of the repair kit. Okay, so
first of all we sit the grey pole into the sleeve, you can see there's a colour-
coded on the end of the sleeve. So, I'll put that over the end of the pole, feed
that all the way through, then we do the other one the same. Okay, we slip that one
in the same.
Once again now, we've now got the yellow poles, goes into the sleeve for the
yellow markers on the end, push that through...
You can see once again we're colour-coded here,
even though it's a yellow tag it's got a little grey
patch on it, that means it takes a grey pole. Zip it onto there and same with
this one here. We also need to put the yellow poles in, no grey tabs, so it's a yellow
pin goes onto there. So, at this point now we need to stand the tent up. So what I'm
going to do, I'm going to stand in the open doorway, now get my hand underneath
the poles, I'm going to push them and cause them to bow upwards. Bit of
pressure needed, feed them through. Sometimes they get a bit caught,
just got to keep feeding them through. Now it's fairly important to lift the
centre of the tent up first, so I got this grey pole here, these ones here,
they went up into position first, put them on the pins, then I need each of the
yellow poles, each end, that goes on the pins, so that's supporting the main centre
of the tent and then I did the bed end poles, which are the ones on the end, the
same thing and put them on the pins. The next stage, of course, is to take all
these little hooks and you hook them up onto the poles like that, this gives the
tent some structure, bit of strength, ties it all together. Okay, that's all the
clips on, all the poles in, it's pegged down, all on the pins. Next stage now is to put
the fly on. Okay and underneath the fly of course there's your Velcro tabs, a
couple of positions of those there on each of the legs. Also helps tie the
whole thing together. Got some little plastic hooks here on the elastic rope,
hook it onto the ring, do that all the way around and the fly is nice and tight
on the tent frame. Okay, just pop the poles together, this little flexible pin there,
just place the peg over the top of that pole. So, now that we've got these awning
unzipped, a little eyelet up on the top of their, little brass eyelet,
top of the pole, go straight into the eyelet. You've got your little
waterproofing top on it, keeps it, the fabric on there as well.
Pull it out.
Now as you can see I've got
the awning up, it does hang down a little bit in the middle here, that's quite
alright, except that if it's going to be looking like a bit of rain, it's probably
a good idea just to take that off, pull the pole out of the eyelet and let the
whole thing hang down and attach it to the tent again. That way you won't have
water pooling in the top causing any damage. Okay, once you've got the tent
sort of partly up, it's really important, of course, to make sure you've got all of
the guy ropes on. The tent is not as strong as what it should be
unless all of the guy ropes are on and that way it'll be a nice strong tent. Okay, so
that's basically the tent all set up, it's got all its guy ropes on, all it's
pegs in. It is a fairly big tent, in reality even though I did it myself
today, it really should be a two-person job to put them up. It's not terribly
hard, you just need those extra hand to get those poles up into place. So now I'm
just going to show you how to put it away. The first thing you've got to do, of
course, is take out all of your guy ropes, let the awning down, pull out all your
pegs, zip up all of the doors and remove the fly. Once the fly is taken off, you
can undo the poles, once the tents down like this you've got
all of the poles still in their sleeves, don't go in the other end and start pulling away
like crazy, you're just gonna pull the cords apart, just get on the end, hold the
sleeve and just very gently glide then back out of their sleeves, fold them
back up and then the last of the pegs come out of the tent. First of all, we
fold the tent halfway over, then we grab the other side and fold that
one up halfway as well. Make sure they're nice and neat in the middle. Then we have to
fold the whole thing over, on top of itself like that. Have a quick tip here,
if you're folding it up and you're not sure how small to roll it up, set the bag
beside it, it shows you how big it's supposed to be when you fold it up. That
way it'll fit in a whole lot better. Put them in the bag and there you have it.
Now, that's all for now from us. Anymore information about this tent, go to
snowys.com.au
where we get free delivery to most parts of Australia.
Thanks for watching, that's all for now.
I'll see you again next time.