We're here at the Motorhome and Caravan Show 2018
and we're on the Outwell stand,
I'm with Simon, who's gonna go though the features of
of their new Outwell Nordic Coast collection
and it's the Cove 340 caravan awning.
So Simon, just talk us through some of the key features of this awning.
Well first of all it's an air awning.
It's got a single inflation point on the outside here
and this will inflate the whole awning in one.
It'll take a couple of seconds because we've semi-deflated it
for the NEC just to show you, so give me a few seconds just to pump this up.
The pump is a downstroke pump so you're not pumping through your back
and pulling through you're back, so you're just pumping up on the down stroke.
Makes it nice and simple for anybody to pump up
of any age... any ability...
So it's nice and simple, and this will actually just then...
spring up! As shown.
Let me just disconnect the pump...
And how long would that normally take from flat?
On this particular model, because of the size of awning...
2 or 3 minutes. That's all.
You've already connected to the van,
so the next thing would be to just pump it up.
The material is our Outtex Peak, which is a really durable, long-lasting material,
so it's really gonna be good in all weathers.
The windows are tinted, so it allows for...
reduced penetration of heat during the day
so when you sit inside in the summer it's gonna be really comfortable.
On the inside features, which you can see looks like its blacked out on the inside
we have curtains on all the windows,
and they're fully zippable, so you can actually zip all the way round
and make a really nice- looking really nice in the evenings.
And will this front open out?
Yeah, let me just show you that. What I was gonna say is...
Here we have the zip,
what you have the ability to do, if you just wanted a canopy awning,
and not just a caravan awning,
as you see you can open it and completely remove that front
so you can sit in the beautiful summers day
looking out with no front on.
What I'll for now is I'll just tuck that out of the way,
so people can still see that feature.
On the bottom of each pole, there's a little pocket for 2 pads.
These are the Height Adjustable Pads.
When you've spent your time levelling your caravan,
and you feel your awning is uneven on the ground,
what you have is the ability to put 2 of these in the bottom of this leg...
and the bottom of the other leg on the other side.
and that will help to level the awning with your van.
These come as an extra, but they're a really good asset.
On the outside, as you can see we have a solid door on both sides,
it's not just a right hand door, there's a right hand door and a left hand door.
If we quickly go in I'll show you what I meant about 'it all goes up in one'.
The awning has a single beam for construction, and a single support beam.
All this is in one, so as I said earlier you'll pump from one corner,
the air will pass over the master beam...
travel through the support beam...
to the caravan...
and then it all stays up in one.
One of the other features on the awning is that we have a pole-free system.
If you have a caravan which has a window,
and you need to lap over a window, what you have the ability to do
is use these pads, and these are called Pole-Free Pads.
What these do is they would fit above the window,
and one below the window, these are extra,
but this allows then the awning to fit tightly against the caravan,
overlapping the window and down against the caravan.
and then this material here is to make it aesthetically pleasing
and just tucks in and will make it all neat and tidy.
If you do want to fit a roof liner you can do,
because it has the toggles here all the way round,
so you can fit a nice roof liner.
Also you'll see some velcros:
these are so that you can rig up any extra lighting.
At the moment as you can see in the NEC we've got it rigged this way,
but you can actually rig it all the way around the front.
And as we said earlier on, sitting inside, you can now see,
but if you wanted to zip the whole of the outside out, we could do.
And what kind of caravanner would this kind of awning suit?
Well really what we've got now is...
really this is a middle ground awning. It takes away kind of the porch awning
and a larger 3/4 one. So if somebody just wanted a weekender,
where they just want something you know for table, chairs,
kicking off all their wet weather gear, they can do.
If they still want to use it during a week holiday, or a 2 weeks holiday
it's gonna be ample, but it's really that consideration that
somebody wants that kind of porch-come-sedentary kind of awning.
where they can use it short term or long term.
And it's just that kind of comfort of what do we really want
so this kind of pacifies the need for that customer.
OK, thank you.