Peter Sansom
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- May 22, 2015
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- A relative newbie...ex caravanner
Could never be bothered with an awning when we had our caravan, even when we were given a free porch awning. When we traded the van in I included it in the sale, which was promptly returned to me by the dealer! As you say, takes up far too much time to erect...life's too short.I must say we do keep half an eye on what the caravanners are up to when they arrive on site. Whereas we take less than 5 minutes to get set up - I plug in the power and turn the gas on while she turns the cab seats round and puts the kettle on.
The downfall of quite a few caravanners seems to be - awnings. They do seem to take an age to set up especially when its raining and after 30 minutes of struggling to thread the edge of the awning along the channel on the side of the caravan it turns out they have it back to front and have to start again!
We have seen people spend literally 2 hours setting up their awning and making it look perfect on a Friday evening only to pull it all down again and go home on Sunday.
Paul