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Subject Topic: Awning Cleaning
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02/7/2013 at 9:36pm
 Location: Ivybridge Devon
 Outfit: Swift EleganceGrande
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Thought I would share this for anyone living in South Devon looking for a good place to have their awning cleaned.

I can thoroughly recommend Dart sails in Dartmouth.

When we bought our latest caravan it came with a full awning a few weeks before coming away we put it up to look at it. It was filthy we had been told that the caravan we bought had been on a seasonal pitch and the awning had been up at least one season. We thought the awning was a green colour until we put it up it should have been blue.

Friends recommended Dart sails to us saying theirs came back looking like new. We contacted Dart sails they told us that it costs £3.50 per kg for cleaning. They send them away to be cleaned every Wednesday.

We got ours back the Wednesday before we were going away. we could see right away the awning looked a lot cleaner. when we put it up it looks amazing compared to the filthy one we sent off.


04/7/2013 at 11:06am
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Very interesting, and sounds like a good service, thanks for sharing.

I have a drive away lightweight awning for my quirky little caravan and last week on a site, it got very mucky as we were pitched underneath a tree - so sap, bits of tree, roosting birds and piles of bird-poop, etc. It was in a state when I brought it home!

I set to work with it flat on the garden and used Grannys Soap Flakes (approx £1 from Home and Bargain) and used a soft washing up brush to get it clean - it was mostly the roof and a bit of one side that needed most cleaning. Then I rinsed it with the hosepipe and got it over the washing line to dry - it came up like new.

I don't know whether I would recommend this treatment for canvas type awnings, but it worked for my smallish nylon.polyester? type without affecting the waterproofing.

I thought I would post this here as someone might maybe just want to spot clean a few areas and this is a good way to do it.

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08/7/2013 at 9:23pm
 Location: Ivybridge Devon
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Thanks for that tip Jax

Will remember it if we have to clean part of our porch awning as that is the polyester type



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