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Subject Topic: Awnings - Which One..?? Post Reply Post New Topic
13/10/2008 at 10:35am
 Location: Berkshire
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Paid deposit for Coachman Pastiche 535 on Saturday.....hoooray

Now looking to purchase a full awning and looking at Dorema & Ventura, any thoughts on your favourites or easy to assemble....would be appreciated.....


13/10/2008 at 11:04am
 Location: Lancashire
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we have a dorema awning and it is really good and would buy another if required.if you can afford go for the light poles,ours are steel and heavy.

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13/10/2008 at 11:05am
 Location: Co Durham
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Haven't had a Dorema, but have a Ventura and an Isabella, and have to say I'm very pleased with the Ventura - good quality, well made, and looks fine. No problems with assembly either.

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13/10/2008 at 12:00pm
 Location: Redditch Worcestershire
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Have  a look at the pyramid products ones, we have the 3 metre orion and we love it, quite easy to put and quality seems good.

 



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13/10/2008 at 12:14pm
 Location: Rochdale
 Outfit: Hymer Nova 470 Mondeo titanium 140tdc
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The quality of the Ventura awnings is far better than the Dorema awning. Given a choice I would take the Ventura every time.


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13/10/2008 at 3:28pm
 Location: scotland
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We have had Dorema awings with all our van and we have never had any trouble with them.



13/10/2008 at 4:59pm
 Location: LANCS
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Hi

We bought our first ventura awning a couple of weeks ago  and we love it, it was really easy to put up (following the instructions) and the quality is really good .  i also like the look of the inaca awnings they are also a nice quality awning.



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14/10/2008 at 12:28am
 Location: Hertfordshire
 Outfit: Swift elegance grand
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We have a bradcot classic,and they are brilliant.The first one we had came with our old caravan,it had steal poles and 2 annexes and we couldn't fault it.Our friends have a pyrmaid and they suffer from condensation dripping off the roof but we have never had that with the bradcot.So we have now brought another for our new van.We got it secondhand Ł300 for 2006 model ,the only down side is this has alloy easy poles which we have been told are easy bent.Still if we do have problems i will replace them with steal ones

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14/10/2008 at 7:58pm
 Location: Warwickshire
 Outfit: Coachman 460 2 VIP
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we have Dorema awning and also dorema porch awning - pretty easy to put up as we have both quite useless at this kind of thing.


14/10/2008 at 8:07pm
 Location: North Yorkshire
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we have had 2 Bradcots, a Dorema and now have an Inaca Sands.  The Dorema came with the second hand van we bought and the first time we tried to put it up it got binned (down to discovering it was in a disgusting state as well as a some poles were missing).  The 2 Bradcots we had were great as well although we did have a few lightweight poles that bent.  So when we needed a new awning for our new van we did look at another Bradcot but ended up getting an Inaca Sands with steel poles (so glad we did as we had gales), we found on the Inaca that there were extra poles for the front sun canopy which we never had with the other awnings, plus the fly sheet bit on the side has a zip across the bottom as well as the sides, we found that the fastenings to fix it to the ground were better plus we also got a complete stranger come up to us and openly admire our van and awning on how nice they looked, so that's maybe another option for you



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15/10/2008 at 11:05am
 Location: Nottingham
 Outfit:  Swift Freestyle S2
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I find eurovent good and a good price. The frame is much more substantial than Dorema.


15/10/2008 at 11:58pm
 Location: Highlands
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We have an Inaca Elba.  A bit pricey - but best awning we have ever had.  Stood up to 4 days of wind with 60mph gusts this summer - looks good too.   

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21/10/2008 at 8:55pm
 Location: west midlands
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Hi,

Just had to get a new awning for our new van.. its our 4th ventura these are made by isabella you get top quality gear for your cash i would not buy a serious canvas porch or full awning unless it was a ventura!

P.S. NO MATTER WHICH MAKE YOU BUY GO FOR THE FIBRE FRAME IT CAN SERIOUSLY HELP YOUR BACK PROBLEMS.....other types are so, so, so, heavy (saves on towing weight as well)



21/10/2008 at 9:26pm
 Location: Cheshire
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How about Trio? We have always had trio models and think they are very good value. We were HSMs for the C&CC and ours was up for 8 months every year. The last one we had for 5 seasons and another 4 years after we retired. We have finally retired it as the steel poles were rather heavy for us two OAPs so we now have an NR porch Awning which is A1.

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21/10/2008 at 9:28pm
 Location: Cheshire
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Just one more thing. There is a picture of the Trio on my gallery.

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