dumping water off awning
When we picked up our new TT it was drizzling. the wife had a whole suburban load to unload in it. So we put out the awning so we wouldn't get her truck and everything wet. We went inside and not 15 ...
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Just to give you something to think about. We have a long awning on our Arctic Fox 30U. Its electric and if flat will dump water when too much gets in it.
We have always read, never tie it down. Went to Florida and found awnings tied down all over the place.
So made up two wooden paint extension poles with forked hooks on one end, the forked hooks are the ones that holds stuff screwed in to a wall and covered with vinyl, these are yellow. Poles are yellow, also.
The back end of the awning is by the back main door and needs to be high, so door opens without scraping underside of awning. Extended the pole out and pulled tight with a nylon line pegged to the ground. The front end, I lowered it all the way down and adjusted that pole to the length and also stacked it down. Stayed that way through a number of wind blows and lots of rain. Even added a sun screen that ran in the extrusion track and pegged it down to give us more shade.
If staying in one spot, we will even roll up the sunshade in the awning, don't usually travel that way, unless a short slow distance.
Yes, I have run with scissors, fired a BB gun many times without shooting my eye out and I come from a generation that even sucked on the end of a hose to get gasoline out of a tank. Some people need to provide experience for surgeons to be able to learn to set broken bones and you don't learn how to stitch up a wound out of a book...
We have always read, never tie it down. Went to Florida and found awnings tied down all over the place.
So made up two wooden paint extension poles with forked hooks on one end, the forked hooks are the ones that holds stuff screwed in to a wall and covered with vinyl, these are yellow. Poles are yellow, also.
The back end of the awning is by the back main door and needs to be high, so door opens without scraping underside of awning. Extended the pole out and pulled tight with a nylon line pegged to the ground. The front end, I lowered it all the way down and adjusted that pole to the length and also stacked it down. Stayed that way through a number of wind blows and lots of rain. Even added a sun screen that ran in the extrusion track and pegged it down to give us more shade.
If staying in one spot, we will even roll up the sunshade in the awning, don't usually travel that way, unless a short slow distance.
Yes, I have run with scissors, fired a BB gun many times without shooting my eye out and I come from a generation that even sucked on the end of a hose to get gasoline out of a tank. Some people need to provide experience for surgeons to be able to learn to set broken bones and you don't learn how to stitch up a wound out of a book...
