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We,re lucky as we have room to put ours up at home including the awning if need be, however our neighbours would either ask us and we would let them put it up in our garden or they have put it up in the street outside their house as has already been said it only takes a couple of hours to dry or he did take it to work and set it up at work (he did have permission though).  The awning he would bring inside and dry it in the conservatory.

Cheryl

When we lived in ouur old house and had no drying space I used to take the TT up to the allotment and dry it out on the access road between the plots. gave me a chance to do a bit of work as well. Nowadays we have a bit of public grass behind our back wall and we dry tents there.

However I've recently started just taking all the canvas off the TT (it splits into two awning sections plus the cabin canvas and the sun canopy) and drying it out over the stair bannisters inside the house. It's actually no more work than having to erect the TT one or two or even more times to get it fully dry. You could at least dry your awning in your garage, perhaps?

is it possible to half erect in your garage?

 I do have a drive and a garage but was wondering if we did a wet pack (escaped so far) and it was still raining when we get home, would it still dry by opening out the ends as much as possible whilst in the garage and then propping up the middle of the canvas in someway.  We only have a normal sized single garage but I would be interested to hear if anyone has tried this at all.

I would dry the awning indoors by putting the zipped off panels in various places and the main bit over the banister.  Or so I think, only our first wet pack up will really tell!

Drive ok when it's dry at home of course but we have been getting rain for days on end up here in Lancashire

We had double gates built into our garden fence,and its ideal,even though our gardens not that big its just right for the Fc,

when we had a tt we used to put canvas over bannister.

art b

I saw a Dandy on a CC site at Cirencester last week - oddball looks but just out of interest, can they be packed away wet indefinately and are they warm at night/cool inside in the sun during the day, and do they suffer at all from condensation? My acrylic awning is red hot in the day, ice cold at night and gets condesation on its inside every evening! I had a Conway Cruiser befor the 'van and that rarely suffered condensation except on the plastic windows, but lost heat on cold evenings just like the awning. Dandy looks fun and very individual - i was just wondering if there were any downsides...