Patio Mat Anchoring

[RobWNY]

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?

[B_O__Plenty]

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.

[3boxerss]

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..

[IAMICHABOD]

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.

[westernrvparkow]

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.

[fj12ryder]

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.