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18/6/2016 at 11:07pm
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We watched a couple erecting a Vango Air awning on the Sandringham estate CC site last week, and they were struggling to hold it up and feed it through the awning channel, and needed help from another tall camper to get it into position on the rail.
What suprised us though was the need to inflate each pole individualy across the front, then further air poles were added as spacers to the interior. To us, this was just about as much of a faff as using a traditional poled porch like our Kampa Rally 260 and 390, and we could not see the benefits of upgrading to an air awning having watched the problems this couple were having.
Tbh, we can manage without any awning if theres just the two of us, but were considering upgrading for when the grandchildren wanted to come along for a few days. Unless we witnessed a very easy to erect one inflation point air awning being erected without a struggle of any kind, we simply would not bother paying the extra money for a replacement upgrade.
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Quote: Originally posted by romany girl on 18/6/2016
We watched a couple erecting a Vango Air awning on the Sandringham estate CC site last week, and they were struggling to hold it up and feed it through the awning channel, and needed help from another tall camper to get it into position on the rail.
What suprised us though was the need to inflate each pole individualy across the front, then further air poles were added as spacers to the interior. To us, this was just about as much of a faff as using a traditional poled porch like our Kampa Rally 260 and 390, and we could not see the benefits of upgrading to an air awning having watched the problems this couple were having.
Tbh, we can manage without any awning if theres just the two of us, but were considering upgrading for when the grandchildren wanted to come along for a few days. Unless we witnessed a very easy to erect one inflation point air awning being erected without a struggle of any kind, we simply would not bother paying the extra money for a replacement upgrade.
Julia
Perhaps it was the first time they had put it up...the benefit of individual air beams is they are easily replaced if one gets damaged...each beam only requires a couple of pumps, so it's much easier than faffing with poles..mind you, we've never had a poled porch before, so for us it's the alternative to the full awning. I do all the lifting because my husband has a huge abdominal hernia, so I lift it and pull it through and he just guides it. It was a bit tricky the first time, but much easier the second.
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