AWNING PROTECTIVE SHIELD

Here's my post from a few weeks back regarding the awning cover. As we all know, the sun wrecks the top of them in a few years. I used plastic rain gutter as shown in my post. Check out smokedummy's post too in my post as his method is good to if it fits you.
Cheap-O Awning Cover

BTW, I've never been able to find that flexible metal covering stuff available as a DIY project.