AndyD2110

Thanks everyone for your advice. As you say, Celtwin, it seems as though there is no right or wrong answer here! We’ve just got back from two weeks in Cornwall, during which our OR air awning survived storm Francis. Was certainly grateful for lack of poles during the 50mph gusts!

Thanks so much for the replies folks! We have the extra cross beams, but unfortunately they didn’t seem to help much. I’ve checked out the YouTube video on how to put up a poled Isabella... this is really useful, thanks for bringing this to my attention. Think I might keep my eye out for a suitably sized second hand full poled awning. I guess the worst that can happen is we don’t like it and we sell it on!

We've got an Outdoor Revolution air awning (Esprit Pro 420), which we have had for three years now (which is our whole caravan owning time... we're relative newbies). I've never really been happy with the awning. It's very heavy to feed through the awning rail, and it doesn't seem to "sit well" on the side of the caravan, if that makes sense. It is impossible to get the roof nice and taught, and it generally looks quite saggy and sorry for itself! Also, suffers terribly from pooling of water on the roof and from condensation. Judging by some of the posts on CT, these problems are not uncommon