Driveway awning

[Mobilvetta]

I have just bought one of these kampa Pro driveway awnings, it's the blow up type, I've been reassured that they are easy to put up and it should not result in a divorce. Wanted the extra room for our children and grandchildren to be able to come with us during the summer months as we only have a 4 berth motorhome. But I have just seen this footage from Facebook with a lot of the awnings destroyed by this weekends weather. Must remember to only use it in light winds. Feel sorry for all those effected, but the storm was well known about days in advance, so one has to wonder why they didn't take them down.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10219881921057233&id=1197204530

 

[H Traveller]

I have just bought one of these kampa Pro driveway awnings, it's the blow up type, I've been reassured that they are easy to put up and it should not result in a divorce. Wanted the extra room for our children and grandchildren to be able to come with us during the summer months as we only have a 4 berth motorhome. But I have just seen this footage from Facebook with a lot of the awnings destroyed by this weekends weather. Must remember to only use it in light winds. Feel sorry for all those effected, but the storm was well known about days in advance, so one
has to wonder why they didn't take them down.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10219881921057233&id=1197204530

As so often happens in such events, people think they are immune to these disasters, “oh it’ll be all right it’s them overreacting again”
But as we, you have seen, it will go wrong if it can!

 

[jeffmossy]

O er hello is that the skip yard , can you sent 10 skips to Aberystwyth caravan site please

 

[Caz]

That's not just blow up awnings in the video, though. The conditions were extreme there - I wouldn't have left any sort of awning up.

 

[Wully]

Doesn’t look good most of them caravans are on seasonal pitches so a good chance nobody was there to take them down. Once seen big new burstner get the side and roof opened like a bean can. Think the blow up jobs are more flexible if in doubt fill the tubes with tyre sealer or expanding foam might make it hard to pack away though?

 

[Wooie1958]

Daughter and son-in-law have a Kampa blow up awning for their caravan and love it to bits.

It goes up much much easier than the metal poled one and was very stable in the wind up at the C&CC site at Dunbar recently.

We was with them the first time they used it and it took quite a while because the instructions were bleeding useless but we got there in the end.

The awning and inflatable supports goes up pretty quick, it`s the amount of guy ropes and the position of each of them that takes the time.

They`ve now put tags on them to differentiate because although they look similar they are not and have a dedicated position.

 

[wildebus]

I have just bought one of these kampa Pro driveway awnings, it's the blow up type, I've been reassured that they are easy to put up and it should not result in a divorce. Wanted the extra room for our children and grandchildren to be able to come with us during the summer months as we only have a 4 berth motorhome. But I have just seen this footage from Facebook with a lot of the awnings destroyed by this weekends weather. Must remember to only use it in light winds. Feel sorry for all those effected, but the storm was well known about days in advance, so one has to wonder why they didn't take them down.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10219881921057233&id=1197204530

The people I have spoken to who have transistioned from the pole awnings to the blowups seem to love the time and energy saving putting them up. But like all awnings, they are not immune.
Last year I was putting up my Gazebo at a Festival and even with just the roof and no sides the wind caught it and made it roll 180 degrees! no damage as the legs are very heavy duty (I can only just lift it on my own) but just shows with just a canopy it can be a problem.


You see a lot of the cheap little garden gazebos at shows and you know just what is going to happen ....
I was at the VW Festival in Harewood House a few years ago and a woman was struggling with a Pop-up in the high wind. I did say to her she would be better off leaving it until the next day to erect but she insisted so I gave her a hand getting it up (gawd - sounds a bit pornographic!)
Next day it was a crumpled mess of course.


(I like to scavange the poles afterwards off those cheapies - they make good supplementary extending poles for my own Gazebos side walls to help against the wind pushing them in - just need two more crumpled pop-ups and will be sorted!)

 

[Phillybarbour]

We have a blow up drive away awning, brilliant. No noise at night when they move and very capable in most wind conditions as they just flex with the wind as opposed to a rigid frame model that acts like a sail. Ours is a Vango and bought for the same reasons as you.

 

[The laird]

Got to watch them blow ups .tend to deflate when you stick yer gnashers into them?

 

[bobj808]

Do you have the Kampa electric pump? I watched an older (well older than me)! camper blowing up his awning at Dunbar with the supplied hand pump. His face went red, then he knelt down while pumping. Not good. We have a Kampa inflatable (not a driveaway) and this prompted me to buy their pump. Set the pressure on the LCD display, switch it on and leave. Automatically cuts out when pressure reached. Worth every penny. Bob.

 

[Mobilvetta]

Do you have the Kampa electric pump? I watched an older (well older than me)! camper blowing up his awning at Dunbar with the supplied hand pump. His face went red, then he knelt down while pumping. Not good. We have a Kampa inflatable (not a driveaway) and this prompted me to buy their pump. Set the pressure on the LCD display, switch it on and leave. Automatically cuts out when pressure reached. Worth every penny. Bob.

No I haven't, need the exercise, so handpump it is, for its first outing anyhow, going to Oban this weekend, so will try putting it up for the first time.