As the title says. Back in March bought a full awning from the above company in particular this awning. Have now used the awning on 3 separate occasions.
Awning was ordered on a Sunday evening, dispatched on the Monday evening and was delivered on the Wednesday excellent service considering the awning came from Holland.
Now on to the awning. When it arrived opened and checked everything was in the boxes (3 boxes 1 for the poles and 2 with the actual awning) first impressions were excellent quality. The only criticism I have would be the instructions that came were in Dutch and German. Found a page on the companies website that was supposed to have the English version but could not find them.
First outing was in May and we looked forward to trying out the awning. Arrived at the campsite and set about erecting the awning. Following the diagram for the frame we got the awning up. This was a bit of a change for us as the previous caravan we had came with an Isabella awning with carbon poles and with this awning we went for the standard steel poles. This took a bit of getting used to as they erect in different ways.
The awning comes with pegs and ladders which have to be attached to the awning.
Once pegged down the awning looked really good there are pics in my profile. The biggest problem we had was the actual size of the awning not the companies fault. Our vans awning size is 1008 so we went for the size 15 which is 1005 to 1030 which means we are at the shorter end of the awning meaning there is a bit of excess. Just wondered whether we should have gone for the size 14 which is up to 1005.
First night it rained and we had some bulges of water after checking poles were tensioned properly and raising the front corner poles slightly we sorted this.
All in all it probably took us about an hour to erect the awning the first not including the pegging down.
We have now got this down to about half an hour with becoming familiar with how the poles go together. Pegging is slightly longer a we are on a hard standing pitch which is quite rocky under the hard standing.
The awning itself looks really good and is of good quality both end panels have a mesh window in then and come out as does the front panel. What got me and I have seen this on a few awnings is that the front panel although there are 2 it comes out as 1 whole panel. There is an air vent as usual on awnings that zips up.
all in all I would highly recommend this awning and Obelink definitely value for money.
Glad to hear that you are chuffed with your awning, I've had quite a few things from Obelink too and found that they were excellent for price and delivery charges, plus their after-sales service was brilliant when I had a problem, a few other dealers could learn a thing or two from them.
Dave
------------- Never argue with an idiot, they will drag you down to their level and beat you on experience.
Mark Twain.
I recently bought our awning from Obelink the only issue was mine (not reading the advert properly!!). Very highly recommended. Very good quality it made me think how some UK distributors could learn a lesson from Obelink
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