Hello and welcome back to Here we Tow today we're gonna have a look at taking
down an Air Awning we've got the Vango Kalari I'm just going to show you
this as a take down video simply because on the back of the cleaning and reproofing
video some people Tweeted and some people commented just to say how did you
get it back in the back so I thought I'd do a quick video just to show you
exactly how I do it I haven't got anything specific from the manufacturer
or how this is done this is how I do it to get it back in that simple bag so the
first thing you need to do is to get on your phone and put in a good order for
the weather I always try and do it when the weather is good so we are two days
away from actually going but because the forecast is looking really bad that's
why I'm doing it today so come with us stay tuned and I'll show you what I do
so I'll catch you in a bit
so like I said before these are my hints and tips as to exactly what I do to pack
the awning away a big tip that I'll give you that I use is I keep a table out it
just saves your bending down messing about lifting and that that's always the
last thing for me that goes away because I find it so handy just to put things on
I've got a peg bag here so here's the back just a common old everyday bag that
I just picked up from somewhere with dividers in obviously I keep all my pegs
all my poles or my little bits to do with awnings knock down and then I've even
got a little bit of a coffee cup just in case and you you get a bit parched
putting stuff down and putting stuff away everything like I say goes in there
peg puller all my various pegs that I've got and then just my rag just so that
when you do get the pegs out the ground just to get all the mud off just to give
them a quick wipe off so then they're dry ready to be used next time so that's
that and then I keep the back always to hand because that's just a massive guide
for when you fold in their way but I'll show you that in a little while
so one of the final preparation phases that I do is I have a quick walk around
obviously the pegs are still in the air beams have been taken out I've deflated
them and I've left those on the table as you've seen I have a quick walk around
just to make sure that any lockers they're all securely shut and obviously
the door because what you don't want is you don't want the awning to come down
off the rail it's a snag on a door to break your door and to rip your awning
so it's just I like to have a wander around to make sure I also take the step
out before but what I do do is I leave the carpet down because I'm on a hard
standing pitch I use this just as a little bit of protection for when the
awning comes off I always try and roll on grass and just because it's a softer
material and you're not going to scratch or you're not going to rip your awning
scratch your PVC or rip your awning so I leave it down for now some people take
it up it's totally a personal preference thing but this is what I do so watch me
and see how I get on
so all I'm doing there is I'm un-doing the clips so that I can take the
twists out that I've put in to stop it making that flappy noise in the wind so
I undo those take the twists out and then I shorten them so that they fold up
nice and neatly back into the back what you might think is a handy little
tip is if you do get any of those problematic pegs that get stuck that you
just can't when you've got your peg puller you you're trying to pull it out
and it just won't come out I use twisting action which just loosens it
from the hard standing or from the medium that it's actually pegged into that
sometimes is enough to loosen it if it's been really pesky then what I do
recommend is get your hammer that you use for your pegs and just knock it side
to side and just make sure that it loosens it and then go back at it again
with the peg puller that action sometimes just jerks the peg in place loosens
around the base where it's stuck in and then it will easily come out
you always get one or two that are really well in so that's how I've
overcome the problem with a problematic peg
so that's everything all sorted now ready to go so the pegs are out the air
beams are down the foam pads that cushion against the side of the caravan
have been removed the poles are out everything's ready to roll so what I do
now is I just have a final walk round check that all the pegs are out and then
I'll deflate it and it comes off the awning
and there's a perfect example I've just gone to push it to make sure that it's
free and I've left a peg in so back again
so to give you a better view of what I've done I'll just changed the camera
angle here so is where you've just seen me take you down from a lady on the
grass what I use is I use the two central poles that you can see here
going up I use those as a guide so I'll fold everything into the middle and then
use the bag the bag is the guide
there you have it back in its bag so there you go and that's how I put my Vango
back away put on in in a bag pretty simple this isn't meant to be the
instructional video or a how-to like I say it's purely on the back of somebody
asking how'd you get it back in the bag so I thought well I'll show you my
method hopefully that's giving you some hints
and tips some things that you might not have seen before if you've got anything
that you want to share with us please do put them in the comments below let me
know you know we're all learning together so that's that's the whole
beauty of the caravanning community the last thing I've got to do now is before
this goes away I've got to clean all my pegs so that's all I'm gonna be doing so
peg cleaning time and pack it away so hopefully you've enjoyed it and we'll
catch you in the next one thanks so much for watching