Tagged With "Slide-out Retracted"

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.