Best Screen House Tents for Your Backyard in UK
Most of the time people choose to go with a canopy for protection from the sun and the rain, but another choice you have is a screen house tent. This is basically a portable tent that is large enough to accommodate many people inside while they are standing up. Just picture a large canopy with screen all around it and a zip up door on each side. This is one of the best ways to help protect your family from insects, wind, and rain better than a canopy can. You will realize that regarding setup, there are two main types: instant and non-instant screen houses. This term instant is the same as what applies to instant tents, so the frame is pre-attached to the screened canopy and it remains so all the time. The non-instant screen shelters require assembly, but this is always very easy with their shock-corded poles. Their price, materials and purpose of use differentiate also. Today we will be focusing on those that are 'Pop Up' and pitch instantly only.
Alvantor® Screen House Room (Instant Pop Up)
This Alvantor Screen House Room is an easy-to-use and versatile outdoor camping tent canopy with an instant pop-up design. So one person can make it ready easily. They build it in several different sizes. It is fully freestanding and quite tall, with 2 doors. The good thing is also that they have very useful accessory elements for extra protection and privacy, those include floor and wall panels. This screen house weighs 20 lb (9.1 kg) and the octagon area in this version shown here (12 x 12 feet) is 102 ft² (9.47 m²).
What this Alvantor Screen House is about
So here you have one of those structures that pop-up when you remove the binding strap. This is because of the elastic frame that is integrated in the sleeves. In other words, this is a sort of instant setup construction and you can have it ready in under a minute. It is indeed extremely easy to set up and you will not even see its poles. They build it in several different sizes, but we shall focus on its 12 x 12 feet version. The other sizes have the same basic features. This is also a fully freestanding structure, this means it is self-supportive and after it pops up, you can rotate it and move around. But it allows you to make it secured and fixed to the ground, you have the following elements included for this purpose:
6 Sandbags, one shown below. Note that you can fill them with anything that is heavy enough to keep the structure in place. In fact, it is better to use rocks than sand, this is cleaner and less messy. There are hooks in the corners to use to attach the bags with their weight.
12 Stakes, one shown in the picture below. You will use them on the ground that can keep the stakes. They are used at the screen house base and also to attach guylines. The base is an octagon but this is all elastic and you can shape it as it suits you. The picture below shows its base as provided by the manufacturer, and on the right is its shape and diameter when folded. Note that the short diagonal (the red line) cannot be correct if the long diagonal is 12 feet. So the short diagonal should be around 11.09 feet.