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13/5/2012 at 8:09pm
Location: Somerset
Outfit: Bailey Wyoming Kia Sedona
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More and more caravaner's getting into to seasonal pitches, and leaving awnings up all of the time.
I'm sure there are loads of people out there who successfully leave them up, but I've heard of large amounts of people who've had recent miss haps doing this, especially with the rain we've had.
I'm pretty sure that they are not, on the whole designed to be up for months on end.
My advice, put it up each time you go, it will last a lot longer.
However, if you are going to leave it up, get as much pitch on the roof as you can, purchase additional roof poles, and uprights, use a treatment of the roof to ensure that the roof is as water proof and repellent as possible, ensure that no top poles, including the final pole along the front of the awning are too proud and producing a water catchment area, separate awning strap ran over the awning in such a way as not to contribute to catchment of water.
Failing on any of the above can produce a collapsed awning.
Some awnings seem to be much better than others when left up, though I've looked at them and honestly cant see why. Some do have much thicker roof material, perhaps this is it?
Tony B
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Topic: awning collasped
