Sand Mat For Bottom Of Stairs?

[longislandcampe]

We do a LOT of beach camping from April - Halloween. Lots of sand, naturally. Do you have any tips for keeping sand out of the camper when you're going inside? I guess I'm looking for some kind of grated mat or something that you can walk on and that any sand on your feet or shows can fall through the grates instead of building up on the stairs going in the camper.

[loulou57]

We do the obvious, remove shoes if they are full of sand. We have also used a small tub of water by the door. One thing that really helps is to put a mat, as lge as you can, ours is 9x18, under the awning. We usually toss our shoes as soon as we are on the mat. Dirt in the TT was reduced 90%

Tip!!!....Baby Powder removes sand , wet or dry, very easily. We have it in the beach bag and at the TT door.

[SAR_Tracker]

We use a plastic pallet that was damaged on one side and discarded from a trucking company. Sand and dirt fall right thru it.

[PawPaw_n_Gram]

After the last of our cats passed away (he was 18) as we were cleaning out things - the DW suggested we try out the large anti-kitty litter mat we kept under/ around the litter box below the TT steps.

It works great.

[rhagfo]

IAMICHABOD wrote:
I Use the same system as BurbMan and it works pretty well and I spend a lot of time at my favorite beach location.

I stumbled on This Mat that works better than any other mat that I have tried, The video shows how it works so well.

X2

We also have all three steps covered with the same material. Works great!! We spend a lot of time at the Ocean and lots of sand.

[IAMICHABOD]

I Use the same system as BurbMan and it works pretty well and I spend a lot of time at my favorite beach location.

I stumbled on This Mat that works better than any other mat that I have tried, The video shows how it works so well.

[Allworth]

We have one like RoyB showed. Made by Stromberg and sold by CW.

With the legs folded under it is about 2" high. With legs extended it is about 5" high.

[BurbMan]

We moved down to Louisville over 2 years ago and I am STILL sweeping sand out of the camper....good luck. Seriously, I used to use a 3-step approach: 1) Astroturf welcome mat at the bottom of the steps for the initial foot wipe; 2) those step-rug things that wrap around each step and 3) a throw rug just inside the door. Between those 3 that got 95% of the sand and kept it manageable anyways. What got me wasn't so much the feet but when the kids would have dried sand on their ankles that would just drop off when they hit the couch or bed.

Found the outside shower helped a lot too.

That said, I really miss Montauk and Shinnecock!

[longislandcampe]

RoyB wrote:
I use one of these high dollar folding steps...


This is heavy duty enough for me to really stomp on it before entering my OFF-ROAD POPUP...

Roy Ken

It looks like something like that without the legs would be a good fit for us because it appears to have a metal grate on it so sand can go right through.

We can't really do the water tub thing because we camp there in the offseason too so we have shoes on.

[hotbyte]

Hope you find something that works! We did a heavy cleaning a few weeks ago and were still sweeping out sand from our beach trip in last June! Our biggest issue is dogs rolling in sand and then coming in MH. For humans, we kick out flip flops off before coming in.

[RoyB]

I use one of these high dollar folding steps...


This is heavy duty enough for me to really stomp on it before entering my OFF-ROAD POPUP...

Roy Ken

[Sloop_Smitten]

We keep a small tub of water and a towel by the steps. Step in, step out, dry your feet. Sand gets on the top of your feet as well as the bottom.