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Subject Topic: New Pullman Porch Awning Post Reply Post New Topic
Personmacquatic
09/8/2013 at 9:52pm
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Just back from a very peaceful few days at the C&CC site at Speyside.
But before settling down to the lovely weather, myself and Mrs Mac had a job to do.
After a lot of research and quizzing on here we decided to convert a Sunncamp Swift 260 to a porch awning for the Pullman.

Fits great, a couple of pics below.
Looks neat
Left
Right

Plenty of room for the camper table and 2 chairs
Inside

Really pleased with the job and fit, and so much easier to fit then the standard awning. In fact when we packed up today, we didn't remove it but just threw it over the top and folded up as normal.

Any thoughts?

Post last edited on 09/08/2013 22:02:21

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Personmacquatic
09/8/2013 at 10:06pm
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Mmmmm....struggling with the pics but just click the links for the others.

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Looks good - it would be perfect for us but we have two zips on our awning that meet at the top of cabin and this apparently makes it difficult? . I have seen some pictures of these type of porch awnings, bigger than yours, with so many guy ropes to sort that I couldn't see the point from a normal awning.


Personwongers
10/8/2013 at 9:29pm
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Lobelia i have a conway cruiser with two zips and have converted a porch awning for mine,having two zips makes it no harder to do,as long as you can get the zips.

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That's interesting wongerr thanks for that. Did you do the conversion yourself? Did you use the smaller porch awning as in the above picture?

I spoke to a really helpful guy last year whose company sold zips but I can't remember what they were called!


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11/8/2013 at 10:44am
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Quote: Originally posted by Lobelia on 10/8/2013
Looks good - it would be perfect for us but we have two zips on our awning that meet at the top of cabin and this apparently makes it difficult? . I have seen some pictures of these type of porch awnings, bigger than yours, with so many guy ropes to sort that I couldn't see the point from a normal awning.


Two zips shouldn't be a problem, it's just getting the right ones.
Only 4 guy ropes, some other awnings have just 2 (storm straps).
We've found the size perfect 2.6m x 2.4m (8ft 6" x 8ft). Enough room for table and chairs, plus plenty room to store other stuff.
The point really, is that it's so light, only a few kilos, can be kept attached to the main cabin and just thrown over the top when packing up. If you don't want to do this, it can be erected or taken down in less than 10 minutes.
Try that with the main awning!!

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11/8/2013 at 12:20pm
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hi again.yes did it myself,i used the techlite one awning which is about 2.3x 2.3 meters.it only has one pole and 3 guy lines.i leave the awning attached all the time and even leave the pole in it,so it takes less than 10 mins to put up.
i had a sun canopy that we did not use,so nicked the zip of that.

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