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12/4/2013 at 10:56am
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Any advice on how to stop my trailer tent awning sagging in heavy rain? We tension fully but still get two swimming pools at each end of the roof. Would fitting extra guys help?


12/4/2013 at 4:28pm
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When we had this problem with an awning we bought two extra poles from caravan shop with a clamp fitting at each each end and positioned it across the widest expanse of canvas on each side. This lessened the chance of rain collecting in a pool it worked really well and gave extra support to roof. Did this with a porch awning as well. Don't know if this will help your problem.


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What make and model of TT is it?

Griff


12/4/2013 at 6:14pm
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It's a Riva dandy designer Griff


12/4/2013 at 7:04pm
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I would be inclined to contact www.rivadandysales.co.uk
as they may have a solution/advise on how to solve the pooling problem.

Hope it helps.

Griff


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13/4/2013 at 10:42am
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hiya

      i had this problem untill i got a awning companion i can get the tension

       right on now

                   derek



13/4/2013 at 3:00pm
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Thanks Derek. Tensioning is not the problem. The awning roof appears to have stretched. I am think inking of attaching extra buying points to see if this will help pull the roof tighter at each side. What do you think?


13/4/2013 at 4:59pm
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Hi,
In the past when we had water pooling on our awning roof with our previous trailer tent we utilised lengths of foam pipe lagging along the horizontal poles to the affected side (and possibly centre) which helped take up slack in roof canvas. We would pop them back off after to allow to canvas to dry to correct size.
We used to find this happened sometimes regardless that the poles were tensioned as much as we could manage. Anything other than a completely flat pitch would see this problem crop up, though I too felt the roof canvas had stretched too as I don't recall this happening when we had it new (we had it for about 10 years).
hope this helps

Onki

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13/4/2013 at 6:46pm
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We had a lot of pooling.we put it down to how I put the awning up. I just kept moving the the legs and poles around to change the angles,it seemed to work.



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