Tent Review: Coleman Weathermaster 6-Person Screened Tent (After 6+ Years of Regular Use) 

The screened in porch you can use a floor to leave shoes on over night by using cut trash bags to make floor!

Thanks for sharing.

Thanks! I'm glad you found it useful.

For such a big tent, if you put a coat of rain sealer on the rain fly, it performs really well in the rain.

@@teamcramerfishing8441Thank you very much. I hope that this product exists in Argentina

Thanks for watching and commenting.

@@teamcramerfishing8441 thanks for the video, so I just bout one for my family, I saw you say it does take a while to set up, how about the directions in relation to the color coordinated poles? Is that pretty clear or would you say confusing? Any other tips when setting it up? Anyway thanks for your review love your videos.

@@antha6865 The set up is actually pretty straight forward and not confusing once you've done it once or twice. It just takes some time compared to a dome tent.

That's a great deal!

What was the name of the tent? I’d really like to find a Coleman tent that has the screen room zip up! This type of tent seems to be the sturdiest and most durable

@@jordanmaco5324 HI Jordon. I'll go out to my shed tomorrow and pull the tent out and look up the name. Just a note here they may have stopped making that model. Steve

@@jordanmaco5324 It is the Coleman Weathermaster 10, six person with screen room. The screen room has a floor and zip up panels to make it another rain proof room if you need it. Not all the weathermaster six person tents with the screen room have a floor with the zip up side panels. Most come with no floor in the screen room and no panels. steve

@@oldmillrd8153 thank you so much for looking into this!

Awesome. Glad it's working well for you. And thanks for the feedback!

If you want to go plant yourself at a spot for a few days, it's hard to beat this one for the price. The door is one of the best tent inventions I've ever seen. It's incredibly handy.

Have fun in South Dakota. I had been to SD many times but camped for the first time in 2018. The state park we were at had the nicest showers I've ever had at a state park.

You're welcome. My friend has the Elite and I think the floor in the screen area is a nice feature. It's a solid tent.

Was close to getting the base model but then learned that the elite is fully enclosed from here. In the amazon listing people were responding (2013, 2015, so I'm hoping an older version) that the elite did not have a full bottom and same in the Coleman and user submitted pictures. I thought it just had a novel built in light strip, like other manufacturers do to up charge for a higher trim. Just ordered the 6p elite today and we'll see how it goes!

@@teamcramerfishing8441 Do you recommend treating the rain fly before using it for the first time? Do you treat the other seams as well?

Now I'm confused. Both the Weathermaster and Weathermaster Elite have screen rooms. I called Coleman (hard to understand) and the rep said that the differences are color and stronger materials. I think the the only differences are color and the gimmicky light switch.

@@teamcramerfishing8441 Just wanted to confirm that the Elite has a floor because I haven't seen anything otherwise.

Thanks, Trey. This has been a good tent for us, and we're still using it.

Team Cramer Fishing good to know! I like the idea of adding some tarp over the screened area. The last one had the screen room and I couldn’t keep it dry in the slightest. I also like how the main door to the cabin is on the side.

That swinging main door is fantastic. I found my rain tarps for the porch the other day. Maybe I'll make a quick video about them. It's really nothing special and it doesn't seal up perfectly, but it keeps a lot of the rain out so you can at least sit outside the sleeping area without getting soaked.

Team Cramer Fishing That would be cool to see!

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It's very useful for a small family.

Haha. I definitely had weekends like that!

You will get soaked inside this tent with a rainfall. You have to seal the seams & spray the tent with sealant as well.

I recently camped twice and went through several Florida thunderstorms with this tent. The only issue I had was a very small amount of water that got in once. I think it was my fault since it was the first time I set it up. I made some minor adjustments and I haven't had any issues since. I would recommend this tent.

It is a big tent, so there are lots of places where if things are not set up properly water can get in. Also, it's a tent, not a house or a cabin. I never expect a tent to be perfectly dry if it's really storming bad outside. If you use a cot and seal the rain fly with a sealer, this tent stays pretty dry in my experience. I've never woken up in the morning and had a bunch of my stuff soaked and I've been in a lot of storms with the tent. I haven't used a heater in this tent. I have used a little buddy heater in my ice fishing shelter, though so I have some idea how they heat. For short-term usage (like a night or two) a buddy heater could help warm up the tent, but I consider this tent more of a 3 season tent than an 4 season tent. It's not really designed to trap a lot of heat in.

Thanks, Rick.

I bought a similar tent here in Brazil and went through the same situation with my wife and 3 children. During the first rain, we had to look for another shelter.

Thanks, Mark. This is a pretty solid tent.

Thanks, Keith. I'm glad you found it helpful.

I used the yellow ones for the points at which the poles touch the ground and the metal ones everywhere else.

I dumped all their cheep stakes and went to Home Depot and get heavy duty 10" spikes (nails). Work great and easy to pound in and get out and they will not bend.

Maybe I'll make a video showing my tarp covers for the screen room. I bought a cheap camo pattern tarp and a bunch of little pinch clamps from walmart, and then cut pannels out of the tarp that matched each of the screens, then clamped them on at various spots. It's not perfect, but it works pretty well for those rainy weekends.

I have the Coleman weathermaster 10 which is pretty much this exact tent, but the bottom tub extends the whole length of the tent and the screened section has tent fabric material that can be zipped up behind the mesh screen on the inside. I like it a lot and bought it at Costco around 10 years ago. It was a great deal at the time for $180. The only drawback I can think of would be if you have the tent fabric unzipped from the screens and it rains, then water can quickly accumulate inside the tent.

Did you ever make a video showing your covers for the screen room? I would be interested in seeing it.

Sorry for the late reply. I haven't been keeping up on this channel. But for the sake of others, I think 3 twins might be pushing the space limit and it would be tight, but it might be possible.

Usually, the lowest we go is low 40s before we stop camping for the year. There may have been a night or two in the upper 30s.

I'm six foot tall and have plenty of headroom. I can set the tent up in about 15 minutes by myself if I was in a hurry. A little faster if someone is helping put the poles together. I doubt it would take longer than 30 minutes even on one's first try.

The overhang mostly is just to keep the water shedding off away from the door and side window and so the fly doesn't stick to the tent when it's wet. If it's really blowing the sides of the tent will get wet, but it mostly just falls to the ground instead of coming inside the tent. If you spray the rain fly which a can of water sealer it sheds water well. I mean, it's a tent. It's not home, but I've had a lot of tents and this is one of the driest I've had, and we've been through lots of weather with it.

Rain will get inside the tent. IT is NOT waterproof at all

Either that or it's for a heater.

I do seal the rain fly every year or every other year with sealant. That keeps things pretty dry and I have been in storms that dumped a lot of rain on us. I always question what someone's expectations are when they complain about rain getting in a tent. Are they complaining about a few drops, or is it getting really wet? Did they pitch their tent in a puddle and are laying directly on ground and had water get in that way? I don't know. But I have literally hundreds of nights sleeping in a tent in my life and for its size, this tent stays pretty dry if you seal it with the sealer with orange cap on it a Walmart. Also we either use cots or small air pads when sleeping in any tent, so if a little water gets in the bottom somewhere we wouldn't even notice it. If someone is sleeping directly on the ground, if any water gets in from anywhere, it's going to soak into their bag and a tiny leak or water coming in from the ground might make them miserable. But I can say that if you seal the rain fly (not just the seams but the whole fly) and you use a cot or air pad, you can go through just about any storm or rain and keep most of the water out.

I have only used one style that I've had many years now. I don't know the brand off of my head, but they are brown, very sturdy, but also very heavy (about 15lbs each I'd estimate).

That's a great idea!

To prevent rust, I assume?

Good idea. They certainly need it!