I need help with this awning please!

[jimmyg352]

I bought this old Bradcot Portico a couple of years ago just to use on a single, solo trip to Scotland. Luckily it was cheap & local but I only tried it out when I got up there. I’d assembled the frame up against the garage which seemed ok, but when I tried to fit it, it became very confusing.
The bead starts at one end but doesn’t go all he way to the other end & theres only one pad for one of the upright poles to sit against the caravan.
At first I thought it was a porch awning & had been given the wrong poles (which is what I’m still thinking) but as you can see, there’s a door at each end.
It looks like it would fit a van with a door at the rear, like our old Bailey Pegasus 2 berth but it won’t fit our 4 berth van with the door nearer the front unless you came out of the van then turned left & went into the awning!
(See what I mean about being confused?) 😂
Hope the photos are some help.
Anyway, it’s been in the garage for 2 years so if I can get my money back (£50) I’ll be happy. I just need to know what to advertise it as.
Thanks for reading & hope someone can shed some light.

 

[RogerL]

At one time, it was fashionable to create a porch out of a small awning - at one end of the awning rail the fabric bead is in the awning channel all the way down to caravan floor level but the other end drops down vertically part-way along the caravan and needs one pole/pad to seal the fabric to the caravan side.

 

[jimmyg352]

At one time, it was fashionable to create a porch out of a small awning - at one end of the awning rail the fabric bead is in the awning channel all the way down to caravan floor level but the other end drops down vertically part-way along the caravan and needs one pole/pad to seal the fabric to the caravan side.

That’s what it looks like. Do you think the pole setup looks right? I’m not sure.

 

[Mel]

The pole structure looks very similar to that of a Dorema Quattro porch awning that we used to have

Dorema Quattro 225 Porch Awning

Dorema Quattro 225 Porch Awning. A compact porch awning, in heavy-duty Ten Cate coated polyester fabric.

awnings-direct.com

Mel

 

[birdman101]

The pole set up for an awning that has been adapted to a porch as in your pictures is not correct. The front with the canopy overhang looks right but the poles angainst the wall are not as the back of the awning threads into the caravan channel. Roof Poles from front of awning to the rear go directly on the caravan with pads or brackets as fitted to older caravans.

 

[jimmyg352]

The pole set up for an awning that has been adapted to a porch as in your pictures is not correct. The front with the canopy overhang looks right but the poles angainst the wall are not as the back of the awning threads into the caravan channel. Roof Poles from front of awning to the rear go directly on the caravan with pads or brackets as fitted to older caravans.

That’s what I was thinking too!