sealing holes in a tent

seamgrip, esp designed for you and your leaky tent, from good camping stores, made my monnet, in wa... 14.95 for a tube

I totally agree, seamgrip, is the best thing on the market, I use it for sealing seams, holes etc. I got my tube from Boots, did all reams on a tourer, and still heaps left! - hope this helps, Jo

For most new tents it is recommended to erect the tent and wet/hose it so that the stitching expands and seals all the tiny stitching holes. Or is yours beyond this process.

Rubbing a candle along the seam worked for us on the poptop seams...the wax gets in the needle holes and seals them....simple

Mate - if it's new and you've followed the manufacturers directions and the holes are still there I don't see that you should have to fix a manufacturing fault. Take it back and get them to apply whatever at their cost. I know that the cost to you is small but they shouldn't sell shoddy goods and expect the consumer to lump it.

I had a cople of small tears/holes in my old second handy canvas tent. I just filled them with good old silicon rubber, it's worked a treat so far (only had it a year or so, it's about 10-15 years old at least).