Taking the panels out definitely makes the job lighter but I’m buying a new awning for this summer where I chose it because I want to pitch it all in one go, when I sold my last caravan I chucked in with the price a Kampa awning air type because it was a little on the heavy side with all the panels in and with them without getting it to look like a blind man but my main reason for absolutely hating the awning was I want the awning to look as though it’s gone up fairly quickly and looks nice and tidy and no bits flapping about, how can I explain, I don’t want panels that when it’s up are curved or at funny angles, I want nice straight sides, so with my new one it’s going to be all panels zipped in, then I’ll run it through the awning rail, peg down the pole(inflatable type) and then inflate it and it should all be in place and just need pegging, it’s not easy to explain what I mean but I’m staking £600 plus the cost of carpet and roof lining on an awning I haven’t seen other than online that this go up and look tidy, maybe when I get it I can show you what I mean.
BP