- G'day, folks, Ben from Snowys here today,
with the OZtrail three metre removable gazebo awning.
This is a simple and lightweight addition
to your OZtrail three metre, or any three metre gazebo,
within reason, that attaches easily to the side
and provides a little bit of extra shade.
So when you buy your OZtrail
three metre removable awning kit
it comes in a little bag like this.
Measures around about a metre in length
and various diameters, five to ten centimetres diameter.
But there's plenty of room in the bag
if you wanted to store anything else in there as well.
Now, inside the bag,
well the whole kit weighs about 2.6 kilos.
And inside the bag you get the poles you need
and also the actual awning elements.
So this is the fabric that we need
that will go across the top to create the shade.
It's made of the same 150D polyester
that their walls and everything is made of.
And it has a silver coating on the underside as well.
Various attachment points and stuff,
which we'll show you shortly,
to put it up on the gazebo.
You do get a couple of extra brackets.
Now I'm gonna explain a bit more on those in a second.
And other bag inside here, which has all the poles
and things that you need to set it up.
So there's three poles here.
These are the ones that are gonna attach to the gazebo legs
to support the pole coming out.
And this one goes across the front of the gazebo.
So we can connect this together like such
and that's gonna stop the end of the awning
from flapping around too much.
Now these brackets here
serve a purpose of attaching to gazebos
which have legs that are on a 45 degree angle.
If we just come up to the leg
of the awning over here at the moment
we can see that these are square to the gazebo.
So they don't sit at a 45 degree angle.
So this bracket suits this sort of setup.
These ones here will actually suit,
if we can imagine these legs on a 45 degree angle.
And they're also smaller,
so it's designed for the smaller Fiesta gazebos
with the 30 or 28 mil legs, not the thicker legs like this.
This will then sit on an angle, like this.
Doesn't quite fit over that one.
And allow us to put the pole at an angle to,
or the the support arm, at an angle to the pole.
So it suits both gazebos
with legs at 90 degrees to the gazebo setup
and also at 45 degrees to the setup.
But just remember it only suits
slightly narrower legs than this guy here.
So the Fiesta gazebo from OZtrail
is a good example of that.
I think it's 28 millimetre
square steel legs that they've got.
And that's what those brackets will suit.
Now attaching the arms.
And these arms are the ones
that come out from the awning, out this way.
We've gotta undo this wheel,
being careful not to lose it
'cause that comes right out and away from this bracket here.
If we just pivot this like this
and put it over the leg of the gazebo.
Pivot this back and screw this back in.
We can then tighten that
so it sits out from the awning like such.
Now we do that on both sides.
And it'll just sit there for now.
That's gonna have more support
once we've got the actual awning fabric in place here.
But I'll do that on the other side
and then we can put the fabric in.
So when we put these on, just make sure that the arms
are sitting on the inside of the gazebo like this,
not on the outside, so that it fits properly.
Now we come back and grab the actual warning fabric here.
Now we'll spread this out
'cause we need to put this pole into this sleeve.
If we lay the awning out flat,
so this goes on the outside.
Fold that over on the under side
and there's a sleeve here
that this pole needs to slide into.
So I'll just slide this out
so I'm not tripping anyone.
This feeds in through here.
There's a bit of mesh in the middle there.
Through the other end.
And we can now stand up
and put this in place up here.
Now it can be easier with two people doing this
but we need to put this pocket
over the top of the arm
that's sticking out from the awning there
and put this in place.
Now this is where it can get tricky with one person,
'cause I've gotta hold that in place to
and do the other end at the same time.
So if we keep the fabric taught as we do it
it reduces the instance
of that popping off at the other end there.
I'm gonna hold that in place there
and do some tricky finger work.
Stretch this over the end there as well.
From here, just sort of hold onto it,
'cause all the weight's
hanging on the end of this awning here at the moment
and it does rely on this fabric to pull the weight up
back towards the awning here.
So if we come up here, we've got a clip in the middle
that maybe we'll do up first.
This can just go up over the top of one of these poles here.
Actually, I'm probably best off putting it up high,
right at the top there
and tightening it up so that you've got this overlap here.
And then you've got Velcro tabs
And at the very end, this plastic, metal hook, sorry,
that lines it up with the metal loop up in the corner there.
We can just straighten this out.
We'll go to the other end and fix it
and then we'll have a look
at what looks like on the other side.
So that's the awning attached there at the moment.
We can see that, at the top here,
the gazebo and the awning overlaps.
So, if there is any rain,
the water's gonna run down off the side here.
Obviously, if there's really heavy windy rain
you might get some at the top
but then you probably
don't wanna be using this awning in that situation anyway.
Now there is some adjustment you can make here.
This bracket can obviously slide up and down.
So if I slide this,
just loosen that and slide it right up to the top,
it gives me a little bit more head space at that end there.
So I can now walk under that.
I'm about a 183, 185 centimetres.
So I give 185 centimetres of clearance there.
Or if I do wanna drop it down a little bit,
we just loosen this off, slide it right down.
Just bearing in mind that there are limitations.
If you go too far
you put too much stress on this corner here.
But that's now well below my head height.
So it's gonna give a bit of extra shade.
So you put that up and down a little bit
so that it suits whatever needs you've got,
wherever you've got it set up.
But that is the removable awning kit
for the three metre gazebo from OZtrail.
A great addition to your gazebo
just to create that little bit of shade
maybe over the side of a stall
or whatever you're using your awning for, your gazebo for.
They've got a million and one different uses.
You can check 'em out online at snowys.com.au
where you'll find 'em at our lowest prices every day.
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