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Quote: Originally posted by Meady41 on 02/6/2021
Can anybody recommend a full size inflatable awing pls and place to buy?
Personally I wouldn't recommend any air-awning unless you are fit and strong. We bought one, just a porch awning, and found it much too heavy for us to manage comfortably. We used it twice and never used it again.
We then bought a second-hand poled awning which is twice the size of the air one, and it is so much easier for us. It's a full awning and is bigger than our caravan, but it comes in 5 pieces plus the poles. Nothing heavy at all and it goes up quite quickly. We are however in our 70s and we both have back problems and I have a neck and shoulder problem too. I can't lift anything heavy above shoulder height.
Not sure there are too many full size air awnings on the market and I suspect pack weight and size is the reason! Poled awnings can spread their weight over two bags, fly sheet in one, poles in other, but air awnings are all in one big lump!
My Kampa 330 (3.3 x 2.4m) porch awning weighs a pretty hefty 20Kg, which I can manage relatively OK, but the pack only just fits though caravan doorway and is awkward to carry!
A quick Google brought up a Dorema Daytona full size awning which weighs a whopping 31Kg (68lbs) to 46Kg (101lbs) depending on size - don't think I'd want to be manhandling one of those too much!
I'm very happy with my air porch awning, and did my homework before buying, so weight and pack size were known, but the weight and pack size of air awnings does come as a shock to the unwary!
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Quote: Originally posted by Monty15 on 02/6/2021
Not sure there are too many full size air awnings on the market and I suspect pack weight and size is the reason! Poled awnings can spread their weight over two bags, fly sheet in one, poles in other, but air awnings are all in one big lump!
My Kampa 330 (3.3 x 2.4m) porch awning weighs a pretty hefty 20Kg, which I can manage relatively OK, but the pack only just fits though caravan doorway and is awkward to carry!
A quick Google brought up a Dorema Daytona full size awning which weighs a whopping 31Kg (68lbs) to 46Kg (101lbs) depending on size - don't think I'd want to be manhandling one of those too much!
I'm very happy with my air porch awning, and did my homework before buying, so weight and pack size were known, but the weight and pack size of air awnings does come as a shock to the unwary!
Pack size wasn't much of a problem for us, nor was lifting the weight low down. The big problem was lifting it high enough to get it through the awning rail, and pulling it along once we got it up there. It was very difficult and painful. What I like about our Trio awning (picture on my profile) is that the poles weigh next to nothing and the roof section is not very heavy either. I could put it up on my own if I could pull it through without bits getting caught on the awning light etc. Once the roof is up I can do the rest on my own, no problem, and we can put this one up in far less time than it took us with the air-porch, which we bought thinking it would be easier and quicker. Had we been in our 20s or 30s, it might have been, but not now.
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Topic: Inflatable awings
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