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Quote: Originally posted by rollsroyce on 06/6/2012

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hi tony so basicly if i have five brackets, i suppose the other two are realy surplus. as there are no poles to join to, do they just keep the awning in place to the rail,

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Some awnings have 5 roof poles and some have 3 but this all depends on the size of the awning. On the smaller awnings only 3 are needed but on longer caravans there has to be 5 roof poles otherwise when it rains the the water will slowly sag the roof which is what they call pooling and if this happens the whole awning will cave in and likely to bend the poles as well. You usually find that awnings up to about 900 cms. will have just 3 roof poles but anything bigger usually have 5 so if you have 5 roof poles you definately need to use them.