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An almighty rainstorm occured last week whilst we were a few miles away from the van. Got back to be greeted with a collapsed awning and four broken steel poles. Its a near-new Outdoor Revolution New England that fits on a 25ft twin axle Crusader Sirocco. Seemed the weight of the water had brought it all down, was suprised to think it had collected on top of it. It has five main poles coming off the 'van, is it worth me buying another two supporting poles for the roof? The 'van was protecting the awning from the wind.
It was a shame the wife and kids had to complete the second week of their holiday without an awning, we've only used porch awnings in the past, so our experience is limited when using these "church halls" !
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Im not familiar with your particular awning, but some larger awnings are better if they can have monsoon poles fitted to help support the canvas in the areas where water may otherwise collect. I have got these fitted to my kampa rally porch awnings and they really do the trick during heavy rain and prevent 'pooling' on the roof.
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Get on to your supplies Your awning should have with held rain. It should have run off. Wind !! Fair enough it's not built for high gale force wind but rain should have run off end of.
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i would agree the rain should run off,we have a large awning and i have fitted extra roof poles with cross braces and so far the awning has stood up to all the storms we have had so far this summer.
the main reason for fitting these extra poles was for the wind but they will also help with draining off the heavy rain
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Thanks for the replies, am liking that photo too. Why don't experienced salesmen recommend a few extra poles before letting the punter walk out with a new awning? Jeez.... A right load of aggro that day trying to get it all apart and protect the canvass.
How near new ? if it was purchased from a dealer new you could agrue that it is not fit for purpose, it should allow rain to run off and not cause any problems, if it needs extra poles to prevent this then they should have been supplied.
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hmm i'm sorry but i would probably go with user error on this one ,if your pole tensioning wasn't right ,this would allow for pooling of the water ,i could understand it on a old canvas stretched awning but a new one should be tensioned drum tight ,if it wasn't that would allow pooling to happen .
and once you have replaced the broken poles ,yes cross beams would help
Quote: Originally posted by the black fox on 06/8/2012
hmm i'm sorry but i would probably go with user error on this one ,if your pole tensioning wasn't right ,this would allow for pooling of the water ,i could understand it on a old canvas stretched awning but a new one should be tensioned drum tight ,if it wasn't that would allow pooling to happen .
and once you have replaced the broken poles ,yes cross beams would help
I a gree,get your self a awning companion, worth there weight in gold.
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Quote: Originally posted by Bill Terry on 06/8/2012
Quote: Originally posted by the black fox on 06/8/2012
hmm i'm sorry but i would probably go with user error on this one ,if your pole tensioning wasn't right ,this would allow for pooling of the water ,i could understand it on a old canvas stretched awning but a new one should be tensioned drum tight ,if it wasn't that would allow pooling to happen .
and once you have replaced the broken poles ,yes cross beams would help
I a gree,get your self a awning companion, worth there weight in gold.
yep, my father in law got me one of those, dismissed it as 'another gadget' till I used it!
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Possibly you had the front poles too high so that the roof was horizontal, in line with the awning rail?
Particularly in wet weather it's better to have the front poles lower so that the roof is at more of an angle and this will help the water to drain off rather than pooling.
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