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Subject Topic: Which awning poles are best Post Reply Post New Topic
PersonSizeyuk
27/6/2006 at 3:10pm
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Hi has anyone any experience of using the light weight awning poles instead of the steel ones, we dont know which to have when we get our new awning, I know the aluminium ones are much easier to put together and obviously much lighter to carry but we have been told that they are not as good as steel ones in high winds. We will be on some sites for 2 months and dont want to take the awning down whenever high winds are forcast, or are we supposed to do this anyway whichever poles we buy. I would really appreciate advice from more experienced awning users.


PersonPCI75
27/6/2006 at 3:56pm
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We were told that although aluminium were light they were no good in anything other than a light breeze so we got the heavier ones and never looked back, had rain and wind etc no problem.


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Personclbewi
27/6/2006 at 4:58pm
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We have aluminium on our awning which is 22ft and never had any problems at all.

 

Colin



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PersonPennine Plodder
27/6/2006 at 5:57pm
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We specifically bought the alluminium ones for their weight.  Fantastic!  Should you be concerned about the wind (I'm tempted to say take a kite) our awning and the porch both came with inbuilt storm attachments. (See gallery pics)

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Person777lynne
27/6/2006 at 6:17pm
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We bought a brand new Bradcot awning with lightweight aluminium poles and put it up for the first time in Keswick two weeks ago. Well, we had two days and nights of really bad winds and the result is that several of the roof poles are now banana shaped!! We had used every peg  that we had fittings for and a storm strap otherwise I think we would have lost it completely. We also had to get up in the middle of the night and cable tie the 'curtain poles' to the roof poles to brace them up as they were bending so badly. It was very scary, so much so that hubby doesn't ever want to use an awning again. The trouble was that the winds came up so suddenly that we had no chance to take the awning down. We watched a neighbour try it and it took ten of us to pull it - poles and all- back from over the top of his van where the wind had blown it. Don't know if we would have faired any better with steel poles or not.


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PersonMartin Lapham
27/6/2006 at 6:18pm
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We have a 21' Awning and use the IXL poles, these are made from re-enforced bonded fibreglass and although they are very light, they are still strong yet have enough flex to withstand strong winds (so I've been told), the awning is a Ventura and the poles are the same as used by Isabella, so they must be good,

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Personwizard9956
27/6/2006 at 9:28pm
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We use IXL poles as well , they're great , they've proved themselves in some very high winds , and are very light weight.

atb

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Personrd57chad
27/6/2006 at 9:50pm
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 I made enquiries into replacing the steel poles with a lighter pole for my Bradcot classic 1040cm . Harringtons told me not to bother with alloy unless the awning size was  850cm or less as the alloy poles would become damaged in high winds . The IXL poles were recommended but are quite a lot dearer but a lot stronger than alloy.



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