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Girard gutters
Have you cleaned your gutters lately?
We are here in Jax at Prevost. We are early for our appointment so I set up for a couple of days, including rolling out the Girards when I noticed a couple of old leaf shadows. I got out the ladder to remove them. While doing that I noticed a gutter at the end of the fabric that I was unaware of. It had quite a bit of dead vegetation in it that couldn’t be seen from the ground. Of course I removed it all, but got to thinking that enough crap in that area could restrict draining of rainwater. A gallon or two of water weight on the edge of a Girard awning would not be good. So, you might want to take a look at that area of your awnings.
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Girards are NOT to be out when raining! According to the tech support guys. Found that out when troubleshooting an issue with windsensors not working.
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We’ve used our Girard awnings in the rain. I was pleased to see them shed water like a duck’s back during a recent downpour. I was expecting to need to close them based upon travel trailer experience with a CareFree awning, but it wasn’t necessary. They shed all the water and there was no pooling.
That said, I don’t like leaving them out in th rain, but sometimes you just need to be outside and dry in the rain…
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Here is some free advice regarding awnings…………
If you are not at the coach to monitor them, close the awnings. I don’t care how well they handle any of what Mother Nature provides in the form of weather, but I can tell you not only from personal experience, but from years of posts on various forums that a sudden change in weather has the potential to literally rip an awning from a coach.
If the awning fabric gets the slightest sag and it starts collecting water the amount and weight can get very heavy, very fast. The wind indicators on automatic awnings cannot and will not protect an awning from an unexpectedly heavy wind gust.
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