Tagged With "Safety awning retraction"

We made ours, courtesy of a LOA member, Pauls, ingenuity! We got the swimming pool skimmer poles from Amazon and the PVC pieces from Lowes. We did cut the saddle differently: just cut that large "tube" section in half and that created a cradle. We glued in a thin sheet of white closed-cell foam that was left over from our fantastic fan gasket. (My husband said the same material shipped with his computer to protect the screen during transit.) He did use a screw to hold that PVC to the pole.

Sail is a great comparison. If you’re on the fence as to whether you really need these $70 awning stabilizer poles from Care Free of Colorado we learned the hard way that you might. Sadly we didn’t know they existed when this happened. I will not use the awning without them and we won’t leave the awning out if we can’t keep a constant eye on it. Stuff can happen fast. Note that the auto retract worked even with the broken arm. The wind that did this came out of nowhere on a still sunny day.

Thanks for the mention. Here's a link to my DIY support poles. I have not added any straps yet, but as mentioned here it's relatively easy to do. When I made these Carefree was still working on their poles and I did not want to wait. They have worked out very well and are quick and easy to set up. I do strongly recommend some kind of support, either DIY or from Carefree. Too many posts here about awning failures.

As far as storage, I have been laying mine flat, end to end, on the floor in front of the dinette. And then I retract the dinette over them when we leave. They have never moved once.

Thank you for talking about this product. I had a class A with auto-retract Carefree awning that couldn't be turned off. It was just about useless in any kind of breeze. I put this product in my Amazon cart. This will make the awning work properly.

We have had ours out in some good gusts without the awning retracting. As long as your anchors are good I wouldnt be too concerned. We use a 25# sandbag on each pole. Since they hold our 12x12 popup canopy down, figured they will be great for the awning. If weight is a concern, filling 2 empty 5 gallon buckets onsite each time ought to hold too.

Did I miss it in the thread... what about the auto-retract feature. Wind comes up and the awning can retract because I have the poles in place??? Thanks in advance for response.