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Quote: Originally posted by cheekyboots on 10/8/2006Oh no please dont tell me that awnings are bad news to put up! We havent tried ours yet. We were hoping as we are used to a frame tent that it would be a doddle, hmmm mebbe not?

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hi there

 we;ll i have put up a few awnings in my time -but the hardest was a porch awning ? on my new van  it was a nightmare -;oh for a full awning again it was a bradcot porch awning  it just dont work  coming half way round the van  and twice as many poles as a full awning  plus slides here ;there ;and foam pads to protect side of van ; better with a full one .

              we,ll i have said my piece on awnings lol hope i havent started a war

                                                      harry,

When newbies we had a canvas porch awning that was heavy and hard work to put up so we got rid of it (was 2nd hand off eBay). We now have a Porchlite awning, takes 10 minutes to put up (2 people), wouldn't be without it.  Our first 6 or so trips out were a very steep learning curve but then it all started to click. Stay with it.

Arriving at 7pm with a 15 month old baby? Nightmare, whether you have a tent or a caravan. Not recommended. Why on earth didn`t you just leave the awning to the next morning? It`s not like a tent, where you`ve got to pitch it to have somewhere to sleep. The whole point about caravans is that you wind down the steadies and put the kettle on, surely?

Also the warden was quite right about grass pitches being a darn sight better for toddlers to play on. Hard standings are...well, hard.Especially for wobbly toddlers that fall over a lot.

Can sympathise but well done. I have a Dandy who have awnings which are notoriously difficult, unless you have them adapted.  My solution is that I joined the club and I found when I rolled in at 8pm after a hellish journey a mug of tea was shoved in my hand and a mass of people swarmed around the unit and the awning and the thing seemed to magically erect. When I took it down I carefully first labelled every damned joint with coloured tapes so I know exactly which bit goes where.

Now there must be a similar club for your caravan somewhere..... It helps when there are people on hand to help and when you are experianced you can be part of the merryband that helps latecomers.

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We have now booked another site for yet another go Wirral Country Park its a CC site and hardstanding so hopefully we will get it right this time.

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dont forget if putting awning up on a c.c. hardstanding you my need rock pegs,

you can usually buy them from the c.c. site reception around 50p each.

stu 

well talk about putting awning up, when we took ours DOWN it had been raining in the night so so undid the zips (part of) and let them flap about abit to dry off when dry off they came just leaving the roof and leg bits.

ME I decided to take out all the pegs so it could flap dry hahahahahahaha yes you've guessed it a big gush of wind and the AWNING,POLES, were on the roof I wet meself laffin my brother in law had to pull up beside us climb in his truck to get the daft thing down...

we never take pegs out now till we're ready to take awning down!!! hahahahahahaha