Staking down awning in tent/pop loop?

[flash828]

Hi, we are booked for a tent/pop up loop for our 1st pop up trip. Does the pop up have to go into the sand (shell) pad or does it sit on the concrete? It's a 12' box, 26' open. What about staking down the awning? If it's able to sit on concrete would the stakes make it to the dirt/grass on side of pad? (don't know the width of pad). I usually park to the most right of pad to give running room. Just trying to figure most secure way to tie down. Make sense??
Thanks!
Rob

 

[Disney Bunny]

Hi, we are booked for a tent/pop up loop for our 1st pop up trip. Does the pop up have to go into the sand (shell) pad or does it sit on the concrete? It's a 12' box, 26' open. What about staking down the awning? If it's able to sit on concrete would the stakes make it to the dirt/grass on side of pad? (don't know the width of pad). I usually park to the most right of pad to give running room. Just trying to figure most secure way to tie down. Make sense??
Thanks!
Rob

Your pop up is treated like any other RV and goes on the concrete pad. As far as tying down your awning, we were on a premium site last year (much wider concrete pad than you will have), and DH did not have any trouble tying down our awning with the type of tie downs that we have. I would think on the size pad you will have that you should not have any difficulties tying your awning down if your tie down straps are long enough. We used to do the same thing with our pop up which was the same size as the one you have.

 

[Judy in Texas]

Hi, we are booked for a tent/pop up loop for our 1st pop up trip. Does the pop up have to go into the sand (shell) pad or does it sit on the concrete? It's a 12' box, 26' open. What about staking down the awning? If it's able to sit on concrete would the stakes make it to the dirt/grass on side of pad? (don't know the width of pad). I usually park to the most right of pad to give running room. Just trying to figure most secure way to tie down. Make sense??
Thanks!
Rob

We were in the 1500 loop and afraid to park on the pad for fear the pop up would sink. It made the small driveway pretty tight. We were assured after the fact by the great people on this site that you can safely park on the pad. We staked down the awning into the sand to side of the driveway and it stayed there just fine. I assume it will stay just as well in the pad if that's were you choose to put it.

 

[Jaylens Papa]

What we do when we can't stake our awnings is take a bungie and a bucket of ?? and use it to weight it down. Usually we are at the beach so we use sand. And make it heavy enough so the wind doesn't throw the bucket.

 

[tim5055]

I stopped tying mine down, I now use Weighted Awning Bases.

 

[krimi]

Your pop up is treated like any other RV and goes on the concrete pad.

Popup sites have a crushed shell base led into by a concrete drive. The base of the pad is bordered by railroad ties and I have better luck driving the stakes directly on the outside of this border. Holds much better. You can also find nails driven into these ties by previous campers that you can use for tiedowns.

 

[YensidCamper]

While the subject of awnings has come up. Remember when away from your camper to lower one end of your awning substantially so the heavy afternoon thunderstorms will drain off. We were not used to how heavy the rain can come down and had about a 3 in tilt on our awning to come back and find the awning had colapsed because the water collected on it and gave way due to the weight. The castmembers told me they have many of those each week. I now lower one side by as much as foot.

 

[clkelley]

It's your choice. You can go all the way to the back and be totally in the sand, or stay forward on the concrete. Most of the driveways are about 12 feet wide.

What I've actually seen many popup campers do is actually turn the camper sideways on the site, so their awning is facing forward.

 

[flash828]

Thanks everyone. Wasn't sure if it was normal for pop-up to sit on shell pad.

 

[moseycat]

We put our trailer on the concrete pad and set the screen room up on the sand pad. The awning ropes worked fine on the side of the site. Although next time we'll back in as far on the driver's side as we can, as the step of the trailer came right down almost to the edge of the concrete, and then there was a railroad tie and step down to the sand pad running along the edge. It made for tricky navigation for the elderly in our group.

Karen