Measuring is easy

with the van on level ground

take a piece of string and thread it through the awning rail and measure from the ground to the ground front and back then mark it off

measure the length of string and that's the awning size precisely

Alternatively any GOOD caravan dealer will have a book that tells you the awning size for the 'van in question for which ever make of awning your parents want the sizes sometimes are different by different makers as they don't do awning to fit just one van but most are compromises

Briar
We use our awning but most of the time I have to do it alone as Steph's' busy putting the kettle on

Awnings are really awkward at times so many different makers do so many different sizes you have to sometimes get one that is too large to fit nicely or even too small

We now tend to use the roof as a sunshade with one side as a wind-break

Thanks for that, I did measure round the awning rail but didn't take it to the ground just the bottom of the caravan I can see another trip to the van coming up

I have there porch awning for mine, although it took me about 4 hours to put that together so mum and dads awning might take me all season

Going to go check out that web site thanks briar

To put up our Full awning take me about 1/2 an hour on my own a lot quicker when Steph deigns to help me

1/2 an hour I think I will be asking everyone on my site to give me a hand

What you may find if you take a long time is that everyone will be out with their glasses of wine and beer enjoying the side show

Best thing to do is have a prectise at home
work out the frame first and get some coloured tape to mark which end goes into which bit a common trick but it really does work

then awning roof first
frame in
get the corners sorted and peg LIGHTLY
put the sides on
then check and tightly peg the corners
peg the rest from there

haha I marked the porch awning this year when I took it down

It's the frame I got stuck with so a practise at home is a good idea thanks for the tip.

Cheers I will make a note of the sequence you give for putting the awning up, and as long as the neighbours bring me a glass of wine I won't mind

Hey no problem

Remember I do mine alone and I've got a realy duff back that's how I got the title the Madcaravanner

WE are at Rowntree Park 27-29th of this month presuming it's not flooded

Hi All..Ive bought an old avondale sandmartin this year and cant wait to try it out...it is in great condition considering how old it is , woodwork ect inside hasnt even got wear and tear scratches. It is only a 2 berth and at least 5 of us will be wanting to go together, so I decided to buy an awning. I thought it would be simple...after weeks trawling the internet and picking anyones brain I could I finally found one that fitted...the only one that would fit...as long as I use chocks to raise the caravan up about 3 or 4 inches.(the old caravans are lower and have more of a curved top) The one I found was a 9ft long porch awning which came with a 1 tall annex as a package and the option to buy a package with 2 tall annexes , plus you could buy annexes seperate. Great stuff I said untill I tried to buy one with 2 annexes . It turned out the only awning that would do me had been discontinued, had been on special offer , and only limited stocks remained. I finally found a stockist who had a blue one with one annex and a burgundy with one annex which had been used once for a show, They didnt have any extra annexes for sale either....not to be beaten I managed to convince the shop to sell me the burgundy one with 1 annex, and the annex off the blue one. I have been chaffing at the bit to get on a site and try it out but the weather has been bad and the fields where I wont have an audience are too muddy.
IF you see a caravan with one blue and one burgandy annex come say hello. I will be so chuffed that I had managed to pull it off in the end
ps. some awnings quote size as height from ground to awning rail in cms or inches as mine did

TWEETIE PIE wrote:

Hi All..Ive bought an old avondale sandmartin this year and cant wait to try it out... so I decided to buy an awning.
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the old caravans are lower and have more of a curved top

Tell me our OLD van had a boat roof and a mustange style hump so NO awning would fit precisely the one we have now
Pageant Champagne has a slope from just behind the side window so the front of the awning is lower than the back by 2 inches but for some reason it looks worse

Hi Madcaravaner...the awning I bought was a suncamp galaxy ...it was a porch awning but bigger than most...its about 9ft long x 8ft deep in main porch...and am hoping to be able to fit a camp bed in each tall annex ...havent got a clue how big these tall annexes are...would be pleased if I could fit 2 beds in each...I wanted to have a trail run ready for next year so I could find out how big things were and get used to putting it up..but no luck.
The lady at the shop where I bought it said as long as I had atleast 9ft of fairly straight awning rail it would be fine...but proof will be in the pudding.
I think I will put a new post on asking if any one else has had one the same