Replacing Awning Fabric

oakbowery wrote:
I just replaced the fabric on both my father's and my campers. We thought it was relatively easy. Definitely watch you tube videos prior to doing it. We bought our fabric at http://www.rvawningsmart.com/ and I am pleased with them. Mine was 21' and my father's was 16'. Took about 2 hours per awning for us. I priced the dealer doing it and the labor alone was $450 for just my awning. We bought the awning fabrics and all the necessary stuff for BOTH awnings for around $350.

My dealer quoted $440.00 labor to replace the fabric. I have had good service at reasonable prices from theses people before and since but I felt this was out of line for 45 mins of labor. I called Camping World and they quoted a price of $125.00 labor and $210.00 for the fabric. They ended up charging $95.00 labor. I waited for it while they changed it out. From the time I pulled in until I left was 48 mins. That amount of time aint worth $450.00.

I replaced ours when Glamping World had a sale. I bought Dometic replacement fabric and paid them $39 to install it. Seemed like a good deal after checking all around the net for decent fabric and doing it myself.

PPL is another good source for the fabric.

I did it. Not too bad. Be sure to clean out and lubricate the retaining track along the gutter for reinstallation of hte fabric. Makes it all so much easier.

oakbowery wrote:
I just replaced the fabric on both my father's and my campers. We thought it was relatively easy. Definitely watch you tube videos prior to doing it. We bought our fabric at http://www.rvawningsmart.com/ and I am pleased with them. Mine was 21' and my father's was 16'. Took about 2 hours per awning for us. I priced the dealer doing it and the labor alone was $450 for just my awning. We bought the awning fabrics and all the necessary stuff for BOTH awnings for around $350.

Bought my replacement from the same company and I am very pleased with the quality. I had my brother and dad helping and we changed my 18' awning fabric in just over a half hour.

A definate DIY project. Watch the you boob videos, take your time and do it before happy hour.

I just replaced the fabric on both my father's and my campers. We thought it was relatively easy. Definitely watch you tube videos prior to doing it. We bought our fabric at http://www.rvawningsmart.com/ and I am pleased with them. Mine was 21' and my father's was 16'. Took about 2 hours per awning for us. I priced the dealer doing it and the labor alone was $450 for just my awning. We bought the awning fabrics and all the necessary stuff for BOTH awnings for around $350.

It is a pretty simple project. The Youtube video's are very helpful and you need a second person or two to help run the material into the guides.
Don't buy the cheap $120 replacement junk on Fleabay. I did and it's so thin that tons of light and heat come right through it.
It's so worthless that I'll probably replace it after a couple of seasons.