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03/7/2024 at 11:50am
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Quote: Originally posted by Monty15 on 02/7/2024
There are purpose made tarp canopies available like this one: https://sunncamp.co.uk/products/sunnshield-240-universal-sun-canopy
Also might like to consider effectively an open fronted awning like this: https://sunncamp.co.uk/products/swift-van-canopy-260-low
I've got the awning version of this (with zipped front door/wall) for my caravan, it's a doddle to fit and the single hooped pole is so quick and easy to fit and adjust. It'd probably be a bit more wind tolerant than a simple tarp canopy which can catch the wind very easily and need taking down before damage occurs.
Why would one need one of the ones in your first link, for it to be anchored on the retractable canopy/awning housing, when one can just wind out the canopy?
For the one in the second link, looks good, however, I do not believe it is on and offable that easily. and would prefer a drive-away type which is more enclosed and offers more privacy, IMHO.
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03/7/2024 at 12:39pm
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Quote: Originally posted by dk168 on 03/7/2024
Quote: Originally posted by Fiona W on 03/7/2024
We’ve tried a tarp on our previous MH which didn’t have an awning rail & it was too flimsy: effectively a sun canopy only, no good for wet & windy.
I am a wuss when it comes to wind-out awning/canopy, in that I would retract it if the wind forecast is anything more than a gentle breeze, even though I always use additional storm straps.
I don't like to have it out during the night in case the wind picks up when I am asleep.
DK 
I've helped (loan of tools, caravan step to aid reaching, and a steadying hand) a couple of fellow campers in past couple of years where wind had got the better of their wind out canopies. Both seemed to be quite severe damage, one with a bent linkage arm, one with a disconnected joint, in both cases they couldn't retract their canopies without remedial work/bodges first!
I've certainly experienced sudden un-forecast squally gusts that have battered my awnings. Had I been aware in advance, I wouldn't have put the awning up, or have taking them down in good time, but such was the suddenness and ferocity it would have been too risky trying to take down in the thick of it, they just had to take their chances. Although never intended for use in such winds, both have survived unscathed!
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03/7/2024 at 12:56pm
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Quote: Originally posted by dk168 on 03/7/2024
Quote: Originally posted by Monty15 on 02/7/2024
There are purpose made tarp canopies available like this one: https://sunncamp.co.uk/products/sunnshield-240-universal-sun-canopy
Also might like to consider effectively an open fronted awning like this: https://sunncamp.co.uk/products/swift-van-canopy-260-low
I've got the awning version of this (with zipped front door/wall) for my caravan, it's a doddle to fit and the single hooped pole is so quick and easy to fit and adjust. It'd probably be a bit more wind tolerant than a simple tarp canopy which can catch the wind very easily and need taking down before damage occurs.
Why would one need one of the ones in your first link, for it to be anchored on the retractable canopy/awning housing, when one can just wind out the canopy?
For the one in the second link, looks good, however, I do not believe it is on and offable that easily. and would prefer a drive-away type which is more enclosed and offers more privacy, IMHO.
DK
The first link is simple versatile, it'll fit a standard fixed rail, or a wind out canopy, where I guess you could use it to make a wall or to extend the covered area.
As to the second one, friends with MHs/campers don't actually move them once pitched, they don't need a driveaway, doubt they are alone in that practice. In the grand scheme of things, they are very easy to erect/breakdown by comparison to most awnings, simply slide the flysheet into rail and one very easy hooped pole to fit (or airbeam to inflate!), you can often get away with just 2 guy ropes, but only 4 if you really need to brace it. Most effort goes into pegging out skirts, which sadly is as tedious as any other awning.
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