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Personmarksellshere
21/2/2013 at 4:18pm
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Hi All,

maybe a daft question but----

newish to caravanning and have only ever been on grass with hookup, if i booked hardstanding can i still get my awning up, was thinking i might not be able to get my pegs in ?

any help or advice please

thanks

mark

 

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Personscar
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Generally your caravan goes on the hard standing and your awning goes op on grass or gravel surface.

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Personmichael
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yes we use hardstandings all the time and have a large dorema awning.put your caravan fully on the left as you look at the pitch and all the way to the rear allowing room for the overhang of the awning.you will need to buy rock pegs and a good hammer (i use a 4lb hammer). most of the awning is on the hardstanding so you will need a good carpet to take away the hard feeling when walking on it.

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PersonTony B52
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Yes, hard standing can means lots of things but there is always somewhere for he awning to my knowledge.   But purchase some rock pegs for the awning and a reasonable lump hammer or similar. The pretty pea gravel on top often hides what seams to be house sized boulders underneath.

It can mean a wide gravel pitch for both, or real harder standing for the van, but a softer type surface for the awning. The awning area can be grass, gravel, nylon carpet type material, or plastic waffling with grass growing in the gaps. There are probably others but you will always be able to knock a peg in but not always a plastic peg or cheap steel or alloy one. Decent rock pegs normally manage though. Purchase some longer and some shorter if both are available from your local stockists.

If you end up with a pitch where you have a drive way affair for the caravan and another sub straight for the awning, park your caravan just over onto the awnings sub straight so that you have enough ground to get the pegs that need to knocked in next to the van.

Quite often the dozy things that put the drive way affair down which the caravan sits on, allow concrete to spill over sub level into the awning area. This makes knocking even rock pegs in close to the caravans sub straight impossible sometimes so better to park your van over the softer sub straight by a good couple of inches where you suspect this might be so.

My experience is that this is in the majority of cases. Yet another unfortunate example of caravan sites being built by non caravaners.

Dohhh.

Best of luck.

Tony B


Personmarksellshere
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Thanks everyone. Just booked a pitch.

Cheers

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I use these but make sure they have the ends metal capped,as these last longer, and can be twisted out of hard ground.

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