Can we switch to an electric Awning

Canadian Rainbirds wrote:

West Beachhouse wrote:
Nothing is perfect. I have an electric awning and wish it was a manual. Two reasons, one if the motor ceases working it will not be easy to retract the awning if out. Secondly, at this time I know of no operation to lower one side of the awning to reduce water accumulation on the awning when extended during a rain.
West Beachhouse

Have to agree. Though it's nice to have, no posts or support arms at head height and easy to deploy and store it has two drawbacks; You can't drop one side, and you can't drop it way down to wash the top. If/when our electric awning dies we will give serious thought to installing a manual one.

First, as stated above, you only use it for sunshine. You can tilt the newer electric awnings if you want, but then the stupid dump feature will fail to soak everything. You can drop it down quite a bit for cleaning with a very long handled brush. As far as support arms at head height, the electric awnings should come with hardhats because they indeed are awful in that regard. If it weren't for the ugly holes and lack of framing I would swap mine for a manual.