Just wondering what that c/ park would of charged you per night if they had cleaned the toilets every day,,by the way it is a requirerment by the health and saftey standards of Aus/N/Z that public toilets /showers are to be cleaned each day.Some times more if dirty and unhygenic or a danger to the public...Thought i would take a look at what people's report in Badgers web site repected , but ithere is no reports avaliable..needs un up date it is saying.Maybe you could leave your report there for others to know before hand that no cleaning was done the whole time you were there....We are seeing this more and more of late , guess it cuts wages down.

Hans,

Regards the awning, It should not take you that long (unless you are talking about the full annex, not just the awning).

If you have the owners manual there should be an instruction telling you how to do it, I vaguely remember from mine putting one side into the track first while down, raising the roof then doing the other side while up, but can't quite remember now. You can thread both sides through while down, then get underneath the canvas and push the lot upwards, but it is very heavy and difficult that way.

Maybe one of the current A'van owners on here can elaborate and explain how to do it, I am sure they would have an awning.  If you don't have an Owners Manual perhaps one of the Avan camper owners on here could send you a copy of the relevant page by email.

Good luck with that. Have a look at this modification that someone did on theirs;

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~ekthomas/giblin.html

Hi Duh, I got the manual , but it was still  very difficult to put up, the problem are  the sharp edges were the rope comes out and then in to the lower roof.If a channel could be made like a slight "S" bend coming up from the lower roof and lined up with the higher roof ,that may work . Next time I will put some silicon spray on the channels like Cupie suggested and thanks for the Avan links.

Hi Cupie, we got the water from Deep Creek, it was running out of a pipe and yes you are right ,the Soda Spring got a pump on it's side.The water from Deep Creek tasted like rust after a few days, yuck.

Herbie , I would say that the cleaning is contracted out, as long it is clean why worry? My wife cleaned the sink twice in the ladys and I wiped the bench in the males a few times until I run out of paper towels.( I could have used the ones from the waste bin ,it was full  ). But like I said before , the place was clean. The person in the office was very nice and helpfull ,he let us pick our own side.

Cheers Hans

Some CP play music and have big exhaust fans  in the amenity block ,now I know why  .

Hans

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Hi Duh, I got the manual , but it was still  very difficult to put up, the problem are  the sharp edges were the rope comes out and then in to the lower roof.If a channel could be made like a slight "S" bend coming up from the lower roof and lined up with the higher roof ,that may work .

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 If you make the sharp edges into a bell shape and file off smooth that might help.  From memory, we put a screwdriver onto the rope (only to hold it) and slid the rope along with the screw driver to help with getting the rope along the track.  Not sure about the "S" bend bit though.  The lower bit only had a track part way along the bottom (hence if you only slid the top bit in first then raised the roof you could do the lower bit after it was up) so that was done after it was up (and hooked onto the little catch on the top).  Slide the rope into the lower bit and use a broom handle to fold over the velcro strip on the lower bit.  Also used the broom handle to unclip the catch on the apex when putting it down.

Send Dougwe a pm and ask him how he does it, he may not be reading this thread.

Good luck,

Vic