This site is about popup tent trailers. It's about how to operate popup tent trailers, how to maintain popup tent trailers, how to buy and sell them - in short I hope it will become everything you ever need to know about them.

I am new to popup tent trailering. But whenever I try something new I research it, dissect it, and pretty well try to find out everything I can about it. Usually two years afterwards, I've done a lot of work but I have no record of anything I've done. All that work down the drain. So lately I've been creating sites like this and now everybody benefits...(but mostly I benefit :-)

So sit back and relax as I take this journey and turn a $1600 trailer into a $600 trailer!

My roof doesn't fit flush with my box. (and yes I'm still talking about my popup tent trailer) If you were a popup tent trailer, then after 27 years your roof might not fit flush with your box either. Over the years the roof has kind "bowed-out" a little. Now, an issue like this doesn't really affect the livability of the trailer, but the problem is that if I store the trailer away at my neighbour's father-in-law as planned, all sorts of horrible vermin will be able to make their way into said popup over the snowy months....

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After a couple of trips carrying the spare tire around in a garbage bag, I decided that I needed a new tire rack. Every place I looked either didn't have one or wanted an insane amount of money for something that (if previous history is anything to go by) is going to fall off in a season or two...

I found out that Cdn Tire sells steel! I bought a 4 foot piece of 1/8 thick by 1.5 inch wide strip of galvanized steel for $8.50. I...

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