DW and I just finished replacing the fabric in our slide out awnings! The entire job took us about an hour and a half and we have the satisfaction of saying "we did it ourselves"!
The awnings were original to the coach (2002) and a hail storm in South Dakota put some pretty large holes in them so they really needed replacing.
I ordered replacement fabric from Tough Top Awnings over the internet. They have videos of how to measure the lengths and they cut them to your specifications. They also have links to You Tube videos on how to do the job yourself and these helped us a lot. The fabric they sent was heavier then the original so we are confident it will last for a long time.
I have done minor repairs on our rig but never messed with any of the awnings before but this turned out to be a very easy job and we saved a bunch of money that a dealer would have charged us to do the same job.
I just wanted to pass this along in case anyone else is hesitant (like I was) about tackling a repair on their rigs.
Phil
ps: there are photos on my blog
Lucky Mike said
10:20 PM Oct 16, 2013
Where's that darn ' Like Button..........
Laura and Bunk said
07:45 AM Oct 17, 2013
Wish I had seen this earlier. DH and I just paid 500 to have the same thing done to our 2002 rig (ours was hail in SD also) very small world! Think we will stay out of there😊
NorCal Dan said
10:18 AM Oct 17, 2013
When severe weather threatens we always pull in our slides. I tell the DW that it's a lot easier (and cheaper) to push that little button than to have to replace awnings. Ever since our 1st RV I have hated awnings. I once saw an RV, I think it was an '02 vintage Beaver, had what looked like plastic molded tops on the slide out instead of fabric awnings. I would have loved to have the same thing on our coach.
Here's a picture that shows what I'm talking about.
-- Edited by NorCal Dan on Thursday 17th of October 2013 10:24:35 AM
Workinrvers said
02:59 PM Oct 17, 2013
Laura and Bunk wrote:
Wish I had seen this earlier. DH and I just paid 500 to have the same thing done to our 2002 rig (ours was hail in SD also) very small world! Think we will stay out of there😊
Laura,
It was a pretty easy project but the videos helped a ton. I would not known where to even start without those. The hail storm that damaged ours was on 9/4 and we were parked near Custer, SD. It was a DOOZY!
Phil
Workinrvers said
01:24 AM Oct 18, 2013
NorCal Dan wrote:
When severe weather threatens we always pull in our slides. I tell the DW that it's a lot easier (and cheaper) to push that little button than to have to replace awnings.
-- Edited by NorCal Dan on Thursday 17th of October 2013 10:24:35 AM
Works great when your in the RV to push that little button, unfortunately we were a few miles away at our work camping job when the storm hit. Sure would have been nice to have had some notice, weatherman said it was going to be sunny that day.
RVRon said
12:36 AM Oct 19, 2013
Phil, thanks for posting the info on swapping out the slide awnings. Ours are getting stiff and brittle with age and I figured this winter it was time to replace them. Glad to have a recommendation on where to get them and the info on how to do it.
dianneandsteve said
08:01 AM Jan 28, 2014
Thanks for the tip Phil!
We had a quote from an RV dealer for $445.00 to replace our large slide topper, so thought I would at least give Tough Top Awnings a try. It also took us about 1 1/2 hours and cost $165.00. Now that I know how easy it is to do yourself I will eventually replace the other 3 as they wear out. If it wasn't for the videos showing a couple of different ways to do this I wouldn't of attempted this myself. The second video shows an optional method in which they removed the roller and dropped it down the side of the slide. That seemed to be a lot of unnecessary extra work so I used the standard method.
DW and I just finished replacing the fabric in our slide out awnings! The entire job took us about an hour and a half and we have the satisfaction of saying "we did it ourselves"!
The awnings were original to the coach (2002) and a hail storm in South Dakota put some pretty large holes in them so they really needed replacing.
I ordered replacement fabric from Tough Top Awnings over the internet. They have videos of how to measure the lengths and they cut them to your specifications. They also have links to You Tube videos on how to do the job yourself and these helped us a lot. The fabric they sent was heavier then the original so we are confident it will last for a long time.
I have done minor repairs on our rig but never messed with any of the awnings before but this turned out to be a very easy job and we saved a bunch of money that a dealer would have charged us to do the same job.
I just wanted to pass this along in case anyone else is hesitant (like I was) about tackling a repair on their rigs.
Phil
ps: there are photos on my blog
When severe weather threatens we always pull in our slides. I tell the DW that it's a lot easier (and cheaper) to push that little button than to have to replace awnings. Ever since our 1st RV I have hated awnings. I once saw an RV, I think it was an '02 vintage Beaver, had what looked like plastic molded tops on the slide out instead of fabric awnings. I would have loved to have the same thing on our coach.
Here's a picture that shows what I'm talking about.
-- Edited by NorCal Dan on Thursday 17th of October 2013 10:24:35 AM
Laura,
It was a pretty easy project but the videos helped a ton. I would not known where to even start without those. The hail storm that damaged ours was on 9/4 and we were parked near Custer, SD. It was a DOOZY!
Phil
Works great when your in the RV to push that little button, unfortunately we were a few miles away at our work camping job when the storm hit. Sure would have been nice to have had some notice, weatherman said it was going to be sunny that day.
Phil, thanks for posting the info on swapping out the slide awnings. Ours are getting stiff and brittle with age and I figured this winter it was time to replace them. Glad to have a recommendation on where to get them and the info on how to do it.
Thanks for the tip Phil!
We had a quote from an RV dealer for $445.00 to replace our large slide topper, so thought I would at least give Tough Top Awnings a try. It also took us about 1 1/2 hours and cost $165.00. Now that I know how easy it is to do yourself I will eventually replace the other 3 as they wear out. If it wasn't for the videos showing a couple of different ways to do this I wouldn't of attempted this myself. The second video shows an optional method in which they removed the roller and dropped it down the side of the slide. That seemed to be a lot of unnecessary extra work so I used the standard method.