Awnings -- Vinyl vs. acrylic
A nice motorhome we looked at yesterday had vinyl awnings with aluminum weatherguards. I had not seen this before. Only acrylic (e.g. Sunbrella fabric) with weatherguards, or laminated vinyl wit...
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Empty Nest Soon,
I'm not an expert on what is what in terms of calling fabrics an "Acrylic". You could be right, I just don't know. Anyway, we've had several "plastic" or, vinyl type awnings and well, some had to be replaced at an early stage in life and some lasted a bit longer.
However, the ones we have now, on all the windows and main awing are Subrella. Sunbrella is designed to be out in the open, for days, weeks, months and even years. Boat covers have been made of it for decades and many that have been made well over a decade ago are still going strong even after that long in direct sun, near boat docks etc.
Ours is an '04 Itasca Horizon and we have the "Care free" awnings with the extruded, anodized gold sun covers on all of them. However, they are out for full time, when we're camping, at least 'till a small gust of wind comes up and the auto-retract takes over and pulls it in. But, ours is in flawless shape. I'd go for the Sunbrella in a heartbeat, every time.
Scott
I'm not an expert on what is what in terms of calling fabrics an "Acrylic". You could be right, I just don't know. Anyway, we've had several "plastic" or, vinyl type awnings and well, some had to be replaced at an early stage in life and some lasted a bit longer.
However, the ones we have now, on all the windows and main awing are Subrella. Sunbrella is designed to be out in the open, for days, weeks, months and even years. Boat covers have been made of it for decades and many that have been made well over a decade ago are still going strong even after that long in direct sun, near boat docks etc.
Ours is an '04 Itasca Horizon and we have the "Care free" awnings with the extruded, anodized gold sun covers on all of them. However, they are out for full time, when we're camping, at least 'till a small gust of wind comes up and the auto-retract takes over and pulls it in. But, ours is in flawless shape. I'd go for the Sunbrella in a heartbeat, every time.
Scott
