$119 eBay replacement awning material
I installed the product from this eBay seller: Awning to replace my Dometic A&E 8300 series and I thought I'd give a few details about the item. First, the seller says this awning is made from heav...
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We found we needed 4 people to do the job safely without damaging the material. We need two people to handle the awning roller with the material installed on it. Those two people would walk the awning along as one person above would guide the material into the top rail and the forth person would pull the material along form the other end of the awning rail.
All in all not a bad job.
One note though, make sure when you start that the awning is pulled all the way out and the rafters are LOCKED. I neglected to lock one side and ended up doing minor damage to one arm.
The most dangerous task is of course tightening the springs. But they're not nearly as strong as I thought they would be. Not really hard to do at all.
All in all not a bad job.
One note though, make sure when you start that the awning is pulled all the way out and the rafters are LOCKED. I neglected to lock one side and ended up doing minor damage to one arm.
The most dangerous task is of course tightening the springs. But they're not nearly as strong as I thought they would be. Not really hard to do at all.
