Having recently purchased a nice new Dorema awning I was wondering if I now hold the record for putting it up 5 hours!!!
Our van is on a seasonal pitch so we couldnt practice out of sight, mistake one. But hey I'm an engineer how hard can it be???
So we unpack the box and the boss says I'll read the instructions, Assemble the frame she says, missing out the vital assemble the frame components. So working from a sheet of paper resembling the line drawing of the Forth road bridge, I set to. An hour later I had something resembling a frame. Reappearing she says now attach it to the clippy things, very technical. Of course those experts amongst you will recognise that you cannot put the whole frame in the clippy things. So after dismantling the rude word thing I eventually get the fram in a semi erect position, dont worry Tina it goes up eventually!!!!!
We pulled the canvas over and things start to go well and we zip the doors and windows back in. Its now been 3 hours!!!
Well try as we might we could not get rid of the huge baggy bits over the windows, I tensioned un-tensioned and got fairly tense myself. And behind us we had an expert, there is always one. Shall I ask him she quips. Men will not be surprised that I declined, but half an hour later, it was pack it up or seek help. So I of course sent her round.well for more than an hour we all tried and the air was thick with expletives and small children were in fear. When around comes his wife, wondered where you were she says and did you realise that the doors are in the wrong sides, silence followed by zipping noises and low and behold the finest erection on the site sprang into view, all due to his wife!!!!
As I sais its staying up till October.
Our van is on a seasonal pitch so we couldnt practice out of sight, mistake one. But hey I'm an engineer how hard can it be???
So we unpack the box and the boss says I'll read the instructions, Assemble the frame she says, missing out the vital assemble the frame components. So working from a sheet of paper resembling the line drawing of the Forth road bridge, I set to. An hour later I had something resembling a frame. Reappearing she says now attach it to the clippy things, very technical. Of course those experts amongst you will recognise that you cannot put the whole frame in the clippy things. So after dismantling the rude word thing I eventually get the fram in a semi erect position, dont worry Tina it goes up eventually!!!!!
We pulled the canvas over and things start to go well and we zip the doors and windows back in. Its now been 3 hours!!!
Well try as we might we could not get rid of the huge baggy bits over the windows, I tensioned un-tensioned and got fairly tense myself. And behind us we had an expert, there is always one. Shall I ask him she quips. Men will not be surprised that I declined, but half an hour later, it was pack it up or seek help. So I of course sent her round.well for more than an hour we all tried and the air was thick with expletives and small children were in fear. When around comes his wife, wondered where you were she says and did you realise that the doors are in the wrong sides, silence followed by zipping noises and low and behold the finest erection on the site sprang into view, all due to his wife!!!!
As I sais its staying up till October.
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