What do you use for an outdoor ground cover?
Early on, with a new RV, I bought two 6X9 mat's to set chairs, etc. on, and sight unseen, they turned out to be plastic, and unappealing. I've seen others, which appear to be some kind of heavy dut...
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You can go to Amazon and search for "RV Patio Mats" to find tons of different options.
We mostly boondock, so we use our mat all the time to keep our heathen dogs (and kids & friends, etc.) from tracking in so much grit.
Securing them against the wind is a big problem and the ground is too rough to pound in stakes in most of our camps. About ten years ago I bought a bunch of "saddlebag" style photography sand bags as weights to hold down our mat. I've got five or six for the mat and one each for the bottoms of our collapsable trash/recycle cans.
Last year for Christmas, one of my camp buddies gave me "a pair of nickels". These things are polished metal plates about the size of dinner plates and they probably weigh more than I do. I started using these to hold down the front corners of the mat because they aren't as bulky as the sand bags but they're so much heavier.
When we stay in RV parks, we keep that mat stowed, because most parks down allow them.
Keep in mind as you shop for a mat that "bigger" means "bulkier". A large folded up mat will take up a lot of space in your cargo hold.
We mostly boondock, so we use our mat all the time to keep our heathen dogs (and kids & friends, etc.) from tracking in so much grit.
Securing them against the wind is a big problem and the ground is too rough to pound in stakes in most of our camps. About ten years ago I bought a bunch of "saddlebag" style photography sand bags as weights to hold down our mat. I've got five or six for the mat and one each for the bottoms of our collapsable trash/recycle cans.
Last year for Christmas, one of my camp buddies gave me "a pair of nickels". These things are polished metal plates about the size of dinner plates and they probably weigh more than I do. I started using these to hold down the front corners of the mat because they aren't as bulky as the sand bags but they're so much heavier.
When we stay in RV parks, we keep that mat stowed, because most parks down allow them.
Keep in mind as you shop for a mat that "bigger" means "bulkier". A large folded up mat will take up a lot of space in your cargo hold.
