When Strapless is Unbecoming

We try to buy quality items when we make large purchases - which is why we bought our window awnings from Carefree of Colorado with the "Unigard" cover. Our understanding  was that it help would protect the awning from sun rot.

Many of you know that we have used the RV  for only a handful of times, so imagine our surprise  when we try to pull the large window awning out and this happpens -

What you don't see is the third piece that is about 6 inches long that  also broke off.

This happened over the 4th of July weekend so we ordered straps from Amazon. We had them delivered to us the next business day.  (Thank you Brazel's for allowing us to have them shipped to you.)

Full Awning Install

The full size awning is on the rig. We had to go with the wall mount position instead of the awning rail. Most of the bolts are hidden inside cabinets-the one set of bolts that are exposed will be eventually covered.


You can see some of the brackets from this angle-



Here is the power switch mounted just inside the door-


And here is the awning extended:

Awning Work Continues

We had issues using the old awning rail-  so we have used the actual wall mounts that came with the awning. Here is a photo:

(Please excuse the night shot-but I was too excited  about visiting with my granddaughter after we had the awning up!)

Window Awnings

There are a list of never-ending projects here at the "Diamond" household and this is one of the most current ones-
We have gone from this-


...to this...


Yes- We have started putting on new window awnings.

Here is a photo of the first one installed with it open-


You can see we went with the "full-view awning material. I hope we like it as much as I think we will!