Have you tried looking on You tube for a video of your awning i found it useful just to watch, my awning type video was of just a man on his own putting the awning up, it made it look very easy.
Easy, slide through rail, squirt some cheap furniture polish in rail first.
OK first fit the poles to awning rail with the other ends on the floor.
Then fit the poles across the front from one pole to the other , all on the floor.
Then grab the centre unstand pole and lift the centre insert pole. Grab the other two unstand poles and insert, hardest part done.
Thats easy to say, if you have a bit of a breeze or even a good gust every now and again, its bloody hard on your own. Ask a curtain twitcher to give you a hand, they can only say yes or no.
Make sure all panels are zipped out and you will find its much easier to pull the roof section through the awning rail. Erect posts. Zip in side panels and peg down.
Regularly do this without the better halfs assistance.
When I've done ours on m own when the wife was pregnant if found once it had been thread through I put the front middle and roof pole in. I then angled the front pole in and tied two guy ropes in to anchor it then moved to the sides and repeat. Managed a full size in 28c heat on my own in about 45 mins.
Yeah not too easy in the wind, I have done it many times on my own, misses was pregnant, if it was a little windy I would have her hold/balance the middle upstand pole while I quickly, couple of pegs and job done.
No problem at all single handed. I always put ours up whilst my wife looks after the kids. This is the way I do it:
1. Thread awning onto runner and attach clips
2. Fit middle upright pole with leg partially extended
3. Fit middle horizontal pole and attach to upright pole - fully extend horizontal
4. Repeat with one of the sides as above
5. Fit front horizontal pole and fully extend so one side is fully tensioned at the roof, but with legs still only partially extended.
6. Repeat on other side
7. Extend legs, tension fully
8. Zip on sides
9. Peg down
10. Open cold beer.
thanks for that rayjdyer, i liked the 1-10 i may substitute number 10 for a nice glass of whiskey, though i havent even looked at the awning yet, i hope the awning has some kind of markings, so i can clip on those awning rail clips (havent used them before)i will check it out wednesday when i get the van out, am off to Devon for 10 days,
Perhaps this should be a whole new thread, but what would be the most common and or potentially serious (damage to 'van and/or awning)rookie errors? I have put the awning on my folding camper no problem, but the caravan one is much bigger and I can't thread it through the channel before I wind the roof up like I could with the Tardis. I added to this thread because it will be just me and 12yo daughter. We're both 5'7" tall
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Quote: Originally posted by clairehope on 22/6/2013
Perhaps this should be a whole new thread, but what would be the most common and or potentially serious (damage to 'van and/or awning)rookie errors? I have put the awning on my folding camper no problem, but the caravan one is much bigger and I can't thread it through the channel before I wind the roof up like I could with the Tardis. I added to this thread because it will be just me and 12yo daughter. We're both 5'7" tall
Cheap furniture polish to lube up the rail and use the caravan step to reach the centre.
Once I have sprayed the furniture polish in the rail I can slide my awning on from the one end on my own.
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