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We have an Ultima 390 and it has become a dumping ground- not a lovely place to sit. I often see people's awnings set out like a sitting room- how do you do it, mines always full of washing, shoes, wellies and bikes.

When in the season to you start to use your awning as a place to sit/eat? If it's all year round, what do you recommend to heat it?

ours is a dumping ground too !! I'm not sure how you can heat the 390 sucessfully to be honest - ours is very flappy at times and of course does not fit to the side of the van

 i wouldnt recommend it for all year round, unless you want everything to be soaked, ours leaked like a sieve :-(

 as for heating it, we used a fan heater, but with all the gaps it never really got warm :-)

 we gave up with it and purchased a proper awning

Gillsid,

Quoted from another thread.

All the P's of life. Prior Planning and Preparation Prevents P ss poor Performance.

We found that if we plan to use the awning for recreation, then it was used for recreation; otherwise, like you, it was used as a dumping ground.

We use our awning all year round. We have one of those glowie three bar heater thingies to heat ours . We have an Awning annex that we put our table and chairs in and use as our dining area, and we try to keep the awning as tidy as possible. BUT there is only me and Mrs Quo, No kiddies .

One of these heaters.

Gillsid  we use our awning for both if it is warm enough to eat in, I have yet to find a heater up to the job in cold weather. As for storage, I use one of those big plastic boxes for shoes and a zip round laundry basket, coats get hung up on an airer and I also have a hanging basket type thing for other bit and pieces.

Valerie

And I thought it was only my hubby who treated the awning as somewhere to dump stuff he's not using.....or a place to line his shoes up in a row. 

Or worse still...where he chucks his dirty underpants into.....

Jenny

Quote: Originally posted by DOBSONK on 04/3/2008

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We have an annexe that we dump all the stuff in so that the awning stays tidy, we use a shower curtain across the annex to hide the mess.

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Can you not zip the panel back in?  Thats what our annexe lets us do. 

Jenny

Quote: Originally posted by theclarkes on 03/3/2008

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 i wouldnt recommend it for all year round, unless you want everything to be soaked, ours leaked like a sieve :-(

 as for heating it, we used a fan heater, but with all the gaps it never really got warm :-)

 we gave up with it and purchased a proper awning

Hi we had to treat the seams of our Ultima awning with a spray on sealant..worked a treat.   Rosie

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We're 6 in family & we always eat in our awning. We only use the van during summer months though so that might make a difference.

We do take loads of kit though as we cook everything except the odd fish & chip job. as far as heating is concerned, we use electric heaters, they get put on low just after tea & therefore the awning gets nice & warm during the evening.

BB