In reply to tom.fox:
The stick-on nylon patches are still holding and looking 'hard core' instead of 'clumsy fool', so no worries. Incidentally, I recently had my sherpa make proper little patches for the yellow Nallo inner (they used to come with big squares of spare fabric, maybe they don't anymore) and the Platypus waterbottle patches were difficult to remove - so they are handy to have as permanent fixes as well, I guess.
To be fair to Hilleberg, I find their groundsheet material to be one of the best for the weight, though I cannot confirm that it is in fact as durable as it feels, when compared to other lightweight tents.
We also, well, my good sherpa friend, replaced all of the elastics with regular half-inch black waistband elastic from the sewing shop. It feels like the same stuff, time will tell. The front elastics around the zip was the most stretched, the rear hoop only at the top.
I carry some of the very thin foam, the sort that comes on the front of tv and monitors, folded up in my rucksack. That way, if you find yourself camped on a sharp rock, you can just push it under the inner and forget about it. Never used a 'footprint', except when car camping. Occasional boots in the tent, a bad habit, is probably my downfall, as it brings in little stones you don't see at first.
Jon
PS: I have seen large rolls of tent inner material in the sewing shop in Penrith, though that was a few years ago. They also had something which looked like silnylon, though it can't have been as it was purple. Always worth having a nose in shops like that in Cumbria, as it is probably end-of-roll type stuff from a local factory.
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