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Patio Mat Anchoring

RobWNY
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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?
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I asked him to do one thing and he didn't do any of them.
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B_O__Plenty
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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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spoon059
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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.
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MFL
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dedmiston wrote:
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. ๐Ÿ˜‰ )


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

AllegroD
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Not on concrete.

Sjm9911
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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. ๐Ÿ˜‰ )

Lol, didnt notice the original date. Hope they figured it out by now!
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dedmiston
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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. ๐Ÿ˜‰ )

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Sjm9911
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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.
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Cummins12V98
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Concrete, why bother???
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CDEW
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We camp often in OBX North Carolina and gets pretty windy. I bring empty 5 gallon buckets with lids. After we set out our mats I fill the buckets with water and put the lids on. After they are filled and sealed I place them on the corners of the mats. This has worked well and mats stay put. When we leave I just empty the buckets, stack them inside each other and they are ready for the next trip. They also double as a small table next to our chairs when set up.

RobWNY
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Dutch_12078 wrote:
Most of the time when we use a mat, I anchor the corners with painted plastic coffee cans filled with water. The two outer corner cans have an 'X' cut in the lids that holds a solar light to avoid night time tripping.

That's a great idea Dutch!
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Dutch_12078
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Most of the time when we use a mat, I anchor the corners with painted plastic coffee cans filled with water. The two outer corner cans have an 'X' cut in the lids that holds a solar light to avoid night time tripping.
Dutch
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DutchmenSport
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We have doors on both sides of our 5er and use mats (almost) all the time. If we are truly stepping down on grass, we don't use mats. But if stepping down on gravel or dirt, almost always do.

Our situation for doors on both sides are handled, as you can see in the photos below. We don't use any kind of stakes or anchors, we just simply put heavy objects on top of the mats. The corners may blow up sometimes, and sometimes in the morning, they are blown over, but never blown "away".

This week-end we are at Mississawana State Recreation in Indiana and the weather is about as perfect as it can get. No high winds predicted or anything. So, the mats are not held down right now, except with the door steps.

Back Side: Mat held in place by the door steps. If windy, I'll place rocks or logs on the corners to hold them down. Doesn't matter, dirt or concrete, they are never staked down.

This is the campsite we are at right now at the moment:





Front side of the camper. This week-end is an exception. We have great shade, so I left the picnic tables in the grass. Normally, the picnic table is on one of the mats to hold it down.



This was last week-end, same campground, different spot. Door steps hold one mat, picnic table holds the other. They don't blow away!



We've been to only one private campground that did not permits mats in all our years of camping. I suppose that's because we do almost exclusively State Parks with an occasional overnight at KOA's or Good Sam parks.

BB_TX
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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