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tommy tess

27/5/2014 at 8:00pm
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28/5/2014 at 9:55pm
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Quote: Originally posted by iscacamper on 15/5/2014
I've never needed them with our porch awning, so just give it a go without them. I suspect you'll get on fine. As Jeff says, once it's pegged down it shouldn't move.

The pegs are at ground level, & the guy ropes are usually attached to the 'front' of the awning.
There's not very much to stop the awning creeping along the awning rail when there is a strong wind hitting the (usually flat) side of a porch awning.

The rest of the awning is held rigidly in place by pegs poles & guy ropes. If the top rear of the awning shifts along the rail, this distorts the structure & puts an extra strain on the whole thing which adds to the wind loading.
Most times this will not matter too much. Sometimes...

If you usually take down your awning when high winds are forecast, I wouldn't bother about this.

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mfdaustrey

21/9/2014 at 3:57pm
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Just looking for something similar. Not needed before but got up this morning and the porch awning had been blown back and we couldn't open the door. Had to open the window to pull the vertical post back. Can't peg the top and the lightweight poles moved slightly. Only needed to move a centimetre of two. My wife had been up in the night wondering what damage the wind was doing, I just slept through.

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use a little bit of copperslip that will stop them seizing

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Rob2632

03/6/2015 at 10:55pm
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Hi all, i agree having used porch awnings for yrs and never had one move even during camping sessions of 50mph plus gusts of wind. I do use an awning rail stop to help position our porch awning. Simply slide the awning upto the stop and we know its in the right position for opening windows, lockers etc.

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lexie71

03/6/2015 at 11:42pm
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Have to agree with some comments the porch awning will move in strong winds witnessed it Cornwall the week before Easter the wind of the Atlantic was brutal there was some Very experienced campers there who had problems with there awning most had storm straps but had movement anybody with rusty stoppers have left them on to long simples

alpiner

04/6/2015 at 6:02am
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if you decide to use these stops remember to remove them each time you take your awning down, they will corrode if left in the rail

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04/6/2015 at 9:23am
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If you just want them to mark the correct position of your awning whist erecting it, a fine pencil mark onto the awning rail works just as well, and unless you rub hard to remove it when washing your caravan, it will remain put for the entire season. For extra wind resistance, buy an awning that the rear upright poles are available for, and always peg the bottom rear corner tight to the caravan's side furthest away from you before you start to peg down the rest. Using Blue tack is fine in the average uk tempretures under 20c, but anything warmer than that and your likely to end up with a sticky mess that is hard to remove from awning fabric or rail

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clbewi

04/6/2015 at 10:43am
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What about these,
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fiamma-Awning-End-Stop-Pawls/dp/B005VB463U

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homebird2003

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I've been looking at rail stops because our Sunncamp lightweight awning did slide along the rail in strong winds. It has the rear upright poles which don't seem to improve the structure at all. We like the awning because its very easy and quick to put up but we will take it down if its very windy in future.

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Andy Higham

04/6/2015 at 7:30pm
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To improve the stability of the awning run a guy rope from top of each rear pole diagonally inside the awning (making an X shape against the caravan)

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