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Quality Materials for Convenience and Longer Life
The materials used by Gigatent are more durable and last longer than most manufacturers so that you are guaranteed to have long years of joy with your family camping tents and party tents.
Twin Track Zipper
An excellent example for our quality is the Twin Track Zipper that Gigatent uses for most tent doors: This door zipper design consists in 2 zippers for the door, a horizontal and a slightly curving vertical zipper.
Using a Twin Track Zipper has two advantages: Firstly, it minimizes the curve to the vertical zipper and therefore is less likely to fail than a straight one. And secondly, it allows for a larger doorway that is easier to enter.
To make it easy to handle and ensure a long life of your zippers, Gigatent chose to use only nickel plated zipper sliders on their camping tents as these slide easier and last longer. Their zippers are also larger in size than most other manufacturers’.
Coating
Gigatents’ family camping tents are also more resistant to rain than most other tents on the market, since the coating applied to their fabrics is thicker, and it is thickest on the rainflys where the most force hits the tent.
Whilst most manufacturers’ tents come with a coating of 450 to 600 mm on both tent and rainflys, Gigatent uses a 600 to 800 mm coating on their tent bodies and 800 to 1200 mm on the rainflys. These measurements refer to the height of a column of water that a tents’ fabric will support before the rain goes through.
A thinner coating will let the water come through fairly quickly, whereas our thicker coating will prevent rain more effectively from entering your tent, meaning in a Gigatent you will stay dry and comfortable even in heavy rain.
Poles
For most large family tents, Gigatent uses 19mm steel poles which are larger in diameter than most other manufacturers. Since they are cable corded together and not chain corded, the possibility of breakage is lower so that you won’t need replacements easily.
The backpacking tents have poles of a 7000 series aircraft aluminium. These are more resistant to cold and cracking than fiberglass poles and are lighter, thus keeping the weight you have to carry when backpacking as low as possible.
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