New awning

[Retired Phil]

Was visiting family in California last week and the good ol'e Santa Ana winds came through at 60+ miles per hour and ripped my awning to heck. What should I replace it with(Brand etc)

Thank you,
Phil

[fulltiming]

Sorry about the misfortune of losing your awning. That's a bummer.

All of the Newells I have seen made prior to 1998 (the adoption of slide outs) came from the factory with ZipDee awnings. They are high quality awnings and hold up well.

[Retired Phil]

Hi Fulltiming,

Thank you for the response, I will contact Zip Dee and see what they can do for me. What about Gerrard awnings????

Thanks,
Phil

[fulltiming]

With the advent of slides, Newell began putting a Girard power awning on for the main awning since ZipDee didn't have a lateral arm awning. Newell continued to use ZipDee window awnings. About a year ago ZipDee began making a lateral arm power awning. Both ZipDee and Girard make a very good product.

Their respective websites are:
http://www.girardrv.com/
http://www.zipdeeinc.com/

I suspect that Newell could get you either brand. The labor to replace an existing ZipDee with another manual ZipDee is fairly inexpensive. Changing to a power lateral arm awning increases the installation cost dramatically. ZipDee now also makes a power awning with has the same type vertical arms as the manual awning and powered by 12 volts instead of the 120 volt power requirements on the lateral arm awnings.