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For people who enjoy travel, taking weekend trips to seenational parks, historical sites, or visit family and friends,the camper is a great way to go. Today, you can find all typesof campers. Some campers are full capacity, meaning they aremore like a large trailer while other campers are small,unfolding once you reach your destination to provide sleepingquarters, a small kitchen, indoor bathroom, and even sittingarea. Although you could spend a fortune for a camper, you willalso discover some excellent bargains for used campers.

As you sit at the campsite, enjoying the beautiful outdoors, thelast thing you want is to be miserable. After all, the wholepurpose of using the camper is to escape the hustle and bustleof life, finding a peaceful way to escape. For this reason, youdefinitely want to choose something with a camper awning or buyan awning to have installed. The benefits in this case aretremendous. For example, your camper awning will provide shadeduring the hot day or protection during rain so you can stillsit outside without being affected.

The type of camper awning you choose will depend on the size ofthe camper and your personal preference. In either case, theseawnings are easy to set up and very affordable. In addition, acamper awning comes in a wide range of colors and patterns soyou can take an ordinary camper and make it shine. Of course,when choosing a camper awning, the most important factorsinclude strength and durability.

Let us say you have a camper awning but it is old and raggedlooking. Every time you travel, you find yourself spending fartoo much time trying to fight with getting the awning open andclosed. In this case, you could simply replace and existingcamper awning, doing the work yourself. For this, start bymeasuring the length and width of the fabric while you have theawning in the open position. For the length, measure from theroller tube all the way to the rail, making sure any hardware ora valance is excluded. As far as the width, this is measured asthe distance between the centerline of the awning to thehardware's centerline

We recommend you go with the same make and model of awning,although you could choose a different design, which will makereplacement much easier. Keeping the camper awning open, lookfor the manufacturer's tag, which will have the model numberlisted. In this case, you can simply place your order,providing the manufacturer with the required model and serialnumber.

To replace an existing camper awning, you need the rollerassembly and fabric, as well as coordinating hardware. Sometimes, these pieces are sold as one unit and sometimespiecemeal. The manufacturer can guide you through this process,as well as choosing a different color or pattern, if you like. However, you might ask the manufacturer about any upgrades thatmight be available. For example, you might have an older modelcamper awning that has now been replaced with new fabric ortechnology. A great example would be fabric that is scratchresistant, mildew resistant, and fade resistant, perhapssomething your old camper awning did not offer.