#18 Caravan Awning: CLEANING and RE-PROOFING - waterproofing using Fabsil. Full Time Caravan Living.
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- How to protect caravan awning?
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Today I will show you how to look after your awning. We are setting up our caravan and awning on our seasonal pitch. To many caravanning full time is living a dream, and it is indeed, once all work is done. After a few years of full time caravaning, we learnt that seasonal awning needs care and that they do perish in the sun and with time lose their waterproof coating. We are caravanning in the UK and on our awning, we use fabsil. In our work we use fabsil gold to waterproof canvas Belle Tents, which has a 5 times higher concentration of silicone to compare with regular fabsil. However the regular fabsil protects fabrics from UV, and as our awning is still waterproof we bought regular fabsil, which is considerably cheaper than Fabsil Gold. Before I apply Fabsil, I clean awning with hot water and regular washing up liquid. In the past I scrubbed our previous awning with Wet and Forget and even diluted bleach - DO NOT DO IT! After bleaching our awning started to leak, I damaged its waterproof layer and after winter, the awning just snapped. This spring we had to buy another awning, which is still waterproof, however I want to protect it from the sun as it is facing south. It is not the first time I am proofing and re-proofing caravan awning, to cover the roof I use a small roller on a telescopic pole, even two poles to reach the edge of the awning without climbing on the roof of our old caravan. I dip my roller in fabsil, get on the ladder and slowly roll it over the roof. I use a small roller to reduce wasting my product, it takes more time, but is more efficient than with use of a bigger roller. After and hour and half our awning should be watertight and stand up to the summer sun. For awning care, choose a dry sunny day, as you want to clean and dry your awning first and the apply a wateproofer of your choice and let it dry for at least 3 hours. My little awning care kit includes a 5l tin of fabsil - I only used half, a small roller, two poles and cable ties, also a small brush for touch ups. It takes time to set up a caravan, and seasonal awning, but it is worth the effort. I can't stress enough that your caravan awning, needs care and it will pay you back with longer life. Seasonal awning are not cheap and it makes sense to extend their lives as much as you can. I hope you enjoy our caravan vlogs. If you have questions about living in a caravan full time, please ask us in the comment section. The best way to keep your awning clean is clean as you go, do not let any dirt get ingrained in the fabric. Our full time living is much easier with a full awning, as living full time is slightly different than touring. Anyway, we still enjoy our extreme camping and caravanning, sharing caravanning tips with you, fellow Freedom Seekers who like us love camping UK, look out for new caravanning gear. If you are experienced caravanner share a word of advice in comments to help me and other viewers, if you are new to caravanning, don't be shy to ask. We will make more videos with caravan tips and caravanning for beginners. Comment on my caravan advice and encourage me to make more caravan vlogs UK. I hope you will like and comment this video. Do you use Fabsil, Fabsil Gold or any other product? Let me know. If you haven't done it yet, please subscribe to our channel, it is FREE and greatly appreciated.
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Time Stamps:
01:40 How to clean a caravan awning.
05:12 Why it is important to proof awning: water and UV protection.
05:52 Fabsil and Fabsil Gold - what do they do? Which one is better?
08:26 How to apply Fabsil on a caravan awning.
11:15 Full time caravanning must haves: duck tape and cable ties.
12:40 Proofing caravan awning advice: cleaning and drying.
13:30 My experience of using Fabsil Gold and Fabsil.
14:30 How to look after your seasonal awning.
Sitting watching the rain come down and the awning leaking like a sieve, we decided to look up awning reproofing and watched your vlog only to realise we are pitched about 25m away from where you filmed! Anyway, thanks for the vlog, definitely something we're going to be doing soon
Hi! That's a small world :-) Sorry to hear about your awning, on a positive note there are ways to save them. Have a lovely holiday, forecast is good!
What a brilliant video. We'll presented, thanks for making this. Really enjoyed it.
Hi, thank you soo much for your kind comment. We both put a lot of work and time in these videos and we are glad it makes sense :-) ❤ We hope to inspire others to be brave and get the lifestyle they want :-)
Thank you for posting this.Had to replace my canvas on my gazebo due to bad weather we had it lasted 2 years.I’ll apply this straight away to the new one when it comes.Hope to leave it up from may to September.
Hi Chris, Fabsil will definitely extend its life ! Are you on a seasonal pitch too? K
@@FreedomSeekers-FS That’s good to hear no I put up a gazebo in my back garden and spend my time in it all summer for listening to music or watching a movie have an electric fire and a projector out there.Lovely place to be in.
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Thanks for the video, i have limited space leave in a flat but we have a small comunual terrace which can be used, what is the minimum time you recommend for the fabsil to fully dry?
Hi, I believe at least 2 hours, depends on the weather of course. I will check the label for you :-)
@@FreedomSeekers-FS Thank you!