For those of you that use a patio mat, how do you keep them held down if your site has a concrete pad or don't you bother putting one out? If we are on a grass site, no problem. We just use tent stakes through the loops but on concrete you can't do that. I thought about weights in the corners but I see myself tripping on them all the time. Anyone have a good way of doing this?

If we're on concrete we don't bother with the rug. It's for use when on sand or dirt. We never use it on grass either, just kills the grass for the next person to deal with.

fj12ryder wrote:If we're on concrete we don't bother with the rug. It's for use when on sand or dirt. We never use it on grass either, just kills the grass for the next person to deal with.We are very strict about no mats anywhere on the grass. You are absolutely right, even a couple of days will kill the grass. And that applies to all mats, even those that are supposedly safe for the grass because in our experience they aren't.

If I'm on concrete I don't bother to put out my mat but I do put One of These out in front of the door,they catch everything.I never put out a mat when there is grass, it will kill it pretty fast.Not good at all and the next camper has a mess.

Normally we have no mat unless muddy area or the pine tree debris is bad. Concrete we usually dont bother but we were in a site on Memorial day that was a muddy swampy mess. Puttin the mat out helped a heck of a lot with trackin mud in the trailer... WE put a cooler on one corner, grill on another, another corner was tucked under one tire and the third corner was stuck in the mud off the side of the concrete... We still had a good time tho lol..

I use gutter spikes they are long are about 6 inches long and are normally used to attach rain gutters to houses. I slip a fender washer on them and drive them flush with the carpet.B.O.

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MFL
Nomad II
May 24, 2022
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Cummins12V98
Explorer III
May 24, 2022
Concrete, why bother???
Sjm9911
Explorer
May 24, 2022
I use the matt on concrete, i have my kitchen set up on one side, and firepit on the other. Table and chairs near the camper and a cooler. So no anchors needed.
dedmiston
Moderator
May 24, 2022
MFL wrote:
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I deleted the post from the spammer who bumped this old thread, but now it makes Jerry look like a goober for bumping the thread.

While Jerry may or may not be a goober, he's not the one who resurrected this conversation and please don't hold it against him.

And as for anchoring the patio mat, I bought a bunch of these photo studio sand bags about six years ago and they're perfect. The soil where I usually camp is too hard to drive in any pegs (not too different than the concrete pads). So I put one or two of these on every corner. I also put on in the bottom of the collapsable trash/recycle cans so they can't blow away or tip over.

If you decide to use them, make sure to fill gallon Ziploc baggies with the sand and then add those baggies to the sand bags. Otherwise the sand will slowly seep out and make a mess.

Link to Sand Bags

(Sorry Jerry. ;) )
Sjm9911
Explorer
May 25, 2022
dedmiston wrote:
MFL wrote:
...

I deleted the post from the spammer who bumped this old thread, but now it makes Jerry look like a goober for bumping the thread.

While Jerry may or may not be a goober, he's not the one who resurrected this conversation and please don't hold it against him.

And as for anchoring the patio mat, I bought a bunch of these photo studio sand bags about six years ago and they're perfect. The soil where I usually camp is too hard to drive in any pegs (not too different than the concrete pads). So I put one or two of these on every corner. I also put on in the bottom of the collapsable trash/recycle cans so they can't blow away or tip over.

If you decide to use them, make sure to fill gallon Ziploc baggies with the sand and then add those baggies to the sand bags. Otherwise the sand will slowly seep out and make a mess.

Link to Sand Bags

(Sorry Jerry. ;) )

Lol, didnt notice the original date. Hope they figured it out by now!
AllegroD
Nomad
May 25, 2022
Not on concrete.
MFL
Nomad II
May 25, 2022
dedmiston wrote:
MFL wrote:
...

I deleted the post from the spammer who bumped this old thread, but now it makes Jerry look like a goober for bumping the thread.

While Jerry may or may not be a goober, he's not the one who resurrected this conversation and please don't hold it against him.

And as for anchoring the patio mat, I bought a bunch of these photo studio sand bags about six years ago and they're perfect. The soil where I usually camp is too hard to drive in any pegs (not too different than the concrete pads). So I put one or two of these on every corner. I also put on in the bottom of the collapsable trash/recycle cans so they can't blow away or tip over.

If you decide to use them, make sure to fill gallon Ziploc baggies with the sand and then add those baggies to the sand bags. Otherwise the sand will slowly seep out and make a mess.

Link to Sand Bags

(Sorry Jerry. ;) )

goober... maybe, depends who you ask? :C

I should have written deleted (old post)

The OP of this thread is a good forum friend, a nice guy, that I often communicated with. He has not been posting for a long time, and my first thought when I saw this thread, was welcome back!

Jerry
spoon059
Explorer II
May 27, 2022
BB_TX wrote:
B.O. Plenty wrote:
I use gutter spikes they are long are about 6 inches long and are normally used to attach rain gutters to houses. I slip a fender washer on them and drive them flush with the carpet.
B.O.

On a concrete site? :h

I'm assuming with a sledge hammer too. Personally I would either use a cut nail or a powder actuated nail gun if I had to have a mat. Otherwise, I'd be satisfied with the concrete.
B_O__Plenty
Explorer II
Jun 01, 2022
B.O. Plenty wrote:
I use gutter spikes they are long are about 6 inches long and are normally used to attach rain gutters to houses. I slip a fender washer on them and drive them flush with the carpet.
B.O.
Just another example of some idiot answering a question before he read it all...OOPS! that was me, sorry.

B.O.

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