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Stuff sacks and groundsheets that name treatments the rest of the shelf leaves out

Naming what usually goes unnamed

Two disclosures here are rarer than they should be. The 30 litre dry sack states that its seams are taped, which most of that shelf does not say either way — and on a roll-top sack the seam is where water gets in long before the fabric fails. The floorsheet states Tyvek, a genuinely different material from the coated polyesters around it, and states that it is PFC and PFAS free, which almost nothing in that hub mentions at all.

The dry sack keeps its volume honest

Thirty litres, stated twice in the title, rather than hidden inside a model name where it has no unit attached. The fabric is given as recycled polyester and the closure as a roll with a clip buckle. It is a bag for sorting a large load inside a rucksack or a car boot, and on that brief the taped seams do more real work than a water column would.

The floorsheet is sold to be cut

This is the design decision behind the whole listing. The 150 by 220 cm sheet has no sewn edges, precisely so that it can be cut down to your own tent floor — which is why it also has no eyelets and no attachment points, and the listing says so rather than leaving you to discover it. That is the honest answer to the universal-footprint problem, since a sheet that sticks out past the floor line collects rain. It also means that once cut, it has to be weighted or folded under rather than pegged, and that the finishing is your job.

The column both leave blank

Weight. The dry sack has a bullet calling itself light and no gramme figure anywhere. The floorsheet opens by saying it is very light and publishes no weight either. Both also stop short on the rest: no denier and no coating on the sack, with “absolutely waterproof” asserted and no figure or standard behind it; no water column on the Tyvek sheet, which is described as waterproof, and no pack size for either. Named materials, unnamed numbers.

Every Tatonka part we have reviewed

  • Tatonka blue Dry Sack rolled closed with its clip buckle

    Tatonka Dry Sack 30 litres in recycled polyester, taped seams

    One of only two bags on this shelf to say how its seams are treated, and the one that states its volume most plainly, with nothing published about the fabric weight or a rating.

    Stated volume
    30 litres — stated twice in the title, as 30l and again as 30 Liter Volumen
    Fabric
    Recycled polyester — stated, and described as high-quality and durable
    Denier
    Not published on the listing
    Coating
    Not published on the listing
    Seam construction
    Taped — stated, and one of only two seam treatments published on this shelf
    Closure type
    Roll closure with a clip buckle — stated; no number of turns is given
    Stated water rating
    Not published on the listing — the maker calls the sack absolutely waterproof, with no standard, no ingress rating and no water column figure
    Weight
    Not published on the listing — described as light and robust, with no figure
    Purge valve
    Not published on the listing
    Amazon reference
    B09J5744V7 (same reference on 6 Amazon marketplaces)
    EAN
    4013236356151
    • Says how the seams are treated, which five of the seven bags here do not
    • States the volume unambiguously in litres, twice, rather than leaving it in a model name
    • No denier and no coating, so the fabric is named but not specified

    Best for: Sorting a large load inside a rucksack or a car, where taped seams do more than a rating would.

    ≈ £12 / 15 €
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  • Tatonka Tyvek tent floorsheet, white, laid flat under a trekking tent

    Tatonka Floorsheet Tyvek 2, 150 × 220 cm, cuttable, PFC and PFAS free

    A Tyvek sheet sold to be cut to your own tent floor, which is why it has no hemmed edge and no attachment points at all.

    Cut dimensions
    150 × 220 cm — stated, and the listing states the sheet can be cut down to a chosen size
    Matching tents
    Not published on the listing — no tent is named, and the sheet is offered as cuttable to fit instead
    Fabric denier
    Not published on the listing — the material is named as Tyvek, which is a bonded sheet rather than a woven cloth and carries no denier
    Hydrostatic head
    Not published on the listing — the sheet is called waterproof with no millimetre figure
    Attachment points
    None described — the listing states the sheet has no sewn edges precisely so that it can be cut, and no eyelets or loops are mentioned
    Packed weight
    Not published on the listing — very light and ultralight are both claimed, with no gramme figure
    Pack size
    Not published on the listing — a minimal pack size is claimed with no dimension
    Amazon reference
    B09J9XVTXH (same reference on 5 Amazon marketplaces)
    EAN
    4013236355260
    • Cuttable to any tent floor, which is the only honest answer to a universal sheet that has to end up smaller than the tent
    • Tyvek is a genuinely different material from the coated polyesters on this shelf, and the listing names it plainly
    • No weight, on a sheet whose first bullet is that it is very light

    Best for: Cutting a footprint to your own tent floor exactly, on any tent, and accepting that the finishing is left to you.

    ≈ £39 / 31 €
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Prices in these summaries were read on the dates each review gives. The live figure sits beside every product.