Wet Awning
So first proper holiday in the caravan coming up and the forecast is rain! Given the high likelihood of coming home with a wet air porch awning I'm just wondering how we go about drying it when we get home? There is room on the drive to put it up but no option to peg down, plus a bit easy to pinch. But in the back garden where I can put on grass there is no caravan! Hints and tips gratefully received :-)
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Can you not hang it on your washing line Daisy?
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- Hang it in a garage/outbuilding, or
- Dont use the awning this trip
PS. Dont tumble dry it.
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As well as our Kampa 390 Air Pro (which is very heavy and a pain to try and dry when wet) we also bought a lightweight SunnCamp Swift 220 for this eventuality. It was only £85 - so no great expense. It's just big enough for storing coats / boots and all the other junk when away but being very light and manageable, it's easy to spread out in the garage and usually dries out in a couple of days. It's also very easy to stuff into its storage bag when wet to bring home - unlike the Kampa.
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There are just the 2 of us so we use a lightweight 270 porch from October-Easter as then it can be hung in the garage to dry. Its big enough for couple of chairs etc.
For other trips it is the full awning which we have dried in the garage but takes an age and a lot of shuffling it around.
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When we caravanned we came back with a wet awning quite often!!! We usually put it in the conservatory where it quickly dried. Alternatively if you have a rotary washing line you could drape it over that.
I remember back many years, when the awning we had was made of cotton, it got so wet when we were in Innsbruck that when we put it up again, still wet, in Salzburg it leaked like sieve !!!
David
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The very reason we gave up using an awning, Daisy !
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one of the reasons we would never have one
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Not quite sure how your air awning is put together, but we used to zip out all doors, sides, fronts, dry these on wash line, then dry main part on line, making sure all area dried. Have suspended it in garage occasionally as well. Haven't got one now, too much bother!
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If it's dry and sunny when we get home, we drape ours over a rotary washing line.
If it's not, I put up two step ladders in the garage and drape it over them, spread out as much as possible.
With the new materials, it doesn't take long to dry off - I remember days gone by with canvas tents and awnings - nightmare!
(PS - I can see steam coming out of a certain poster's ears with you starting your OP with that particular 2 letter word, Daisy!!!
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Another way to dry on your grass would be if you have, or can acquire cheaply, one of the older design gazebos that has a seperate frame and use that for support during the drying process.
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Another way to dry on your grass would be if you have, or can acquire cheaply, one of the older design gazebos that has a seperate frame and use that for support during the drying process.
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You are of course correct Moulesy that beginning a sentence with 'so' is not the most eloquent sentence structure, or should at least have been followed by a ','.
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Thank you all for your suggestions. Coming from a motorhome where we rarely even wound out our Fiamma awning, the need for an awning is new to us. Our caravan is very compact though and the extra space is going to be quite beneficial. Great suggestions, although sadly we don't have a garage or conservatory. Putting some awning rail up may well be an option though. I guess I need to leave enough payload in the van to accommodate extra weight if the awning is wet? Fortunately the awning isn't large (Kampa Rally Air Pro 200) so hopefully it will dry fairly quickly. Or better still, we might get some dry weather and not need to worry
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If we are coming towards the end of a holiday and the awning is reasonably dry, we sometimes drop it the evening before we leave, it makes less work on the day of departure. Even if it doesn't rain during your last night the awning can still be wet with the overnight dew. For a long weekend away we don't bother with it and leave it at home.
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