Cleaning a stained Fiamma awning- help !

Sounds like we're about to have a busy weekend ! Peter recommended a brand of awning cleaner so what with biological washing liquid ( a bottle of Tesco's Value brand is even now waiting to go to the van, salt, bicarb. we'll get them out somehow.

We have the same problem reaching to the furthest stains and Fiamma suggested;

Eventually you can go on the roof of the vehicle and clean little by little,
opening the awning cm 50 and then other 50.

which is a very good suggestion but we have not really got the means to access the roof where we store it. I was hoping there was some easy way to detach the fabric from the mechanism and then lay the whole thing out on the ground but Fiamma say this is a definite no-no.

The upside is that they do not seem to be damaging the awning but they do look unsightly.

Thanks all

G

We thought we had a similar problem with our Fiamma awning F50 (Zip edged for Privacy Room) which also had lines of brown stainings.
The received advice from various sources was 'use a mild detergent' solution' and that was our intention.

Nature, however provided it's own remedy:
At the MHF Stratford Rally last week we set out the awning on day one. The first few days were sunny, followed by severe '****-ipitation' for several hours at the weekend.
Our awning had remained out all this while and lo, when we came to roll it back in, on the sunny Sunday afternoon on Day Six, not only had it by then been completely wind-dried,
but all of the brown marks had been washed clean away!! Leaving just a narrow strip at the front gutter edge which I then wiped clean using only a wet cloth.

I cannot say that this would work for every ones stains but it certainly worked for our awning, so perhaps it is worth a try.


As an pertinent addition: With any more than a light breeze about (Fiamma Instructions say 'to crank the awning in when it is windy - because it is only a sun-shade')
the side edges will flap and flutter, making an annoying/alarming noise, especially in the dark hours....

But, by rigging extendable horizontal poles at each end and clipping plastic clamps (four to each side - at £1.00 per set of 4) around the awning edges onto those two poles we introduced enough rigidity to prevent the edges fluttering, plus making the awning tight enough to stop it from acting as a rain-catchment.
We also used Awning Tie downs (to avoid para-gliding) and the legs were adjusted to provide a down-weather slope. At the lower awning 'gutter' end the 2 gallon bucket we placed on the ground was filled within a few hours. Touring in Ireland (yes, it rained almost daily) we used to place the evening's mealtime washing-up in that bucket, with a little Fairy Liquid, and it thus became our Green, Portable Dish-Washing Machine!!

Please try these Tips sometime....It's Nature's way of helping us Mhomers along, even when it is p***-ipitating down!

Bob L