Hi all, apologies as i am new here, still finding my way around, and the only threads i can find which talk about awnings seem to be quite old.
Has anyone successfully fit an inflatable air awning to their trailer tent please? From other threads i can see that some have adapted an awning by adding a zip, but i'm wondering if something more innovative has come on the market since the thread i saw was dated 2014 and i don't want to sew onto something that requires inflating, in case i may puncture it.
Welcome, and no need to apologise for being new, we were all new once.
Trailer tents/folding campers not my area of expertise, so others in a better place to advise in detail. But pretty certain there have been far more recent discussions on attaching awnings than 2014, think there have been some posts this year! Often older threads are resurrected after years and take on a new lease of life, others drift far from the OP and may contain the info you seek. The search facility is a little clunky in some ways, and you have to play with variations on a theme sometimes to get best results.
As to puncturing an air awning during sewing to modify it, highly unlikely unless very careless! The keder bead is quite separate from the airbeams which are independent from main construction but reside in their own containment sleeves on the flysheet, they are zipped in to facilitate repair/replacement, in fact, you could probably completely remove the air bladders whilst you modified the flysheet on at least some makes of awning, but a bit of a faff and likely unnecessary. Construction is not so dissimilar to an inner tube in a tyre, each a separate entity, but working in unison.
I think people often get tent repairers or sail-makers to sew the zips in for them as they've got the heavy duty sewing machines best suited to the task.
Having read these as they have come on, no there is nothing newer on the market for attaching them.
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