Awning carpet

andytyneandwear
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edited March 2016 in Parts & Accessories #1

Ive bought a new awning with a floor plan 250 x420 the manufacturers carpet is very expensive ive found a great alternative at a lesser price but its 250 x 400. With very limited experience of awnigs how much does the 200 mm short matter?

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  • Vicmallows
    Vicmallows Forum Participant Posts: 580
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    edited March 2016 #2

    Surely it simply means that you will have a 100cm gap of grass/gravel at each side? Certainly wouldn't bother me.

    Maybe though I am missing something important? . (I just use some of those interlocking foam tiles in the awning).

  • clarinetman
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    edited March 2016 #3

    Mine is a lot shorter than that I find it useful to put muddy boots in the awning but not on the awning carpet.

  • KJLC
    KJLC Forum Participant Posts: 84
    edited March 2016 #4

    Ive bought a new awning with a floor plan 250 x420 the manufacturers carpet is very expensive ive found a great alternative at a lesser price but its 250 x 400. With very limited experience of awnigs
    how much does the 200 mm short matter?

    To quote a famous phrase from Paul Daniels, "not a lot"

  • Whittakerr
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    edited March 2016 #5

    As said above, 200mm will give a gap of about 100mm at each end (or all at one end, your choice.) which is only 4" in old money.

    In my awning the front wall is slightly narrower than the van wall and i end up folding the carpet under to make it fit so it would be less noticeable.

    As a matter of interest what is the cheaper alternative carpet you have found?

  • DSB
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    edited March 2016 #6

    ...the other alternative is to buy a 4.5 metre and fold in at the edge.  For years we have had
    THIS TYPE of groundsheet and have been really pleased with them.

    David

  • andytyneandwear
    andytyneandwear Club Member Posts: 115 ✭
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    edited March 2016 #7

    Thanks everyone! Bit the bullet and went Vango purpose made custom carpet , What the hell £400 quid on an awning £70 for the flooring, SUCH IS LIFE!

  • Hakinbush
    Hakinbush Forum Participant Posts: 286
    edited March 2016 #8

    You wont regret it Andy Ive had a Vango for twelve months now brilliant and under it Ive got those jigsaw suare foam panels just to take the bumps from the stones on the hard standing..

  • Merve
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    edited March 2016 #9

    I went to softfloor www.softfloor.co.uk and bought enough soft foam tiles(loads of colours) to fit the awning. First groundsheet then the tiles. A warm, soft, and comfortable floor. Not breathable though which so far hasn't been a problem but I can see it might be 

  • Rufs
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    edited May 2016 #10

    sounds very complicated for something you are supposed to lift every day if you are on a grass pitch, i guess the moral of the story is dont use a grass pitch if you are using an awning with a carpet

     

  • Merve
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    edited May 2016 #11

    sounds very complicated for something you are supposed to lift every day if you are on a grass pitch, i guess the moral of the story is dont use a grass pitch if you are using an awning with a carpet

    Write your comments here...Don't lift it! Bit yellow after a fortnight but it soon greens up again. Most sites don't worry about breathable GSs and some do. Recently we had one where they were not allowed at all. It certainly wasn't as inbiting as an awning
    with a soft warm flor in it but we survived!

  • jennyc
    jennyc Forum Participant Posts: 957
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    edited June 2016 #12

    Mine is a lot shorter than that I find it useful to put muddy boots in the awning but not on the awning carpet.

    Write your comments here...

    Our Caravanning cat eats a little grass every morning. He has irritable bowel syndrome, but maybe he's not too daft to increase his roughage. So we have a slightly shorter carpet than the awning's width, to leave a grazing strip. Oh, and he doesn't like
    the feel of a Kampa carpet. Talk about dogs have masters but cats have servants

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