Vinyl awning fabric shot
My A&E awaning vinyl is shot. I want to replace it with acrylic. Local dealer says it can't be done. Has anyone done this?
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j-d wrote:
We had an old A&E vinyl awning with a first foot or so that was just plain crispy from sun and weather. We pinned the retract springs, and took it off the coach. Then got some boat cover material. Ours was called Top Gun, there are now probably better ones. Had to piece it to get the length of the awning. Carefully measured and cut, stitched a new "first foot" ( I think we did a little more than that) and it slid right back in. The fix is easy and the price is right ***IF*** you have access to a commercial upholstery/sailmaker's sewing machine and a rugged thread. If you have to pay much labor, probably pays to just get a new fabric.
An even cheaper version of this trick is to simply cut off the crispy first wrap and stitch in a new channel for the rail spline.
One loses some extended area, but it's not that noticeable.
