Tips on How to Clean an RV Awning
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There are a few different ways to clean an RV awning, ensuring it remains mold and damage free. Knowing how to clean an RV awning is just the beginning to proper maintenance of this part of your RV. By keeping it clean you will extend the life of the awning, ensure you have continued protection from the sun when relaxing on your trip.
Everyone has their own idea on how to clean an RV awning. You just have to find what works best for you. For simple quick cleaning of the awning, many say the best way on how to clean an RV awning is to wrap a towel around a soft bristle broom and run it along the underneath of the awning. You can soak the towel in a simple solution made using an RV cleaning solution. The solution can be diluted or poured directly on the cloth. Make sure to wear goggles when working over your head and cleaning the awning.
If there is extensive staining, it may be necessary to learn alternative methods on how to clean an RV awning. You can soak a rag in a cleaning solution and climb up a ladder and use some elbow grease to get the awning clean.
When mixing the cleaning solution look at the cleaner’s instructions to learn how to dilute it and how to use it straight out of the bottle.
The best way to not have to learn how to clean an RV awning when it comes to deep stains is to not put the unit away wet. Run a dry cloth over it before closing it. This will prevent any mold from growing while the awning is closed.
Knowing how to clean an RV awning will keep your awning looking fresh and new. Thus ensuring it has a long life.
It's important to clean your awning periodically, and especially not to store it when it's wet. Now, we pulled this awning out earlier, and it was soaking wet. And you can see, there's quite a bit of mold, some spots that we're gonna really need to take care of. So something you can do, they do make an RV awning cleaner. Several companies have them out there. This one recommends four ounces per gallon of water. And we've got just about three gallons of water in there. So I'm gonna pop this open here. We've got 32 ounces in there, so. And I'm gonna pour this a little heavier than typical because we got some good spots we're gonna have to do. Now, I could use some TSP as well. TSP is a powder that I would put in here. It's used a lot for cleaning different type of canopies, and floors and that type of stuff. This stuff isn't toxic, so I don't have to worry about using gloves. You might wanna use gloves just because you don't wanna get wet. If you got cuts or something like that, it might do it, but it's a pretty mild detergent. Again, safety glasses, I think are probably something you would use. But here is a little trick. If I just... And I'm not gonna wet this up til I get my safety glasses on. But if I dip this in that solution, or if I just wanna dry this on a periodic basis, instead of bringing my ladder out here, and doing every square inch from the ladder, and moving it constantly. I can only do a spot about this big. This'll allow me to go up. If I just wanna dry it, I can use this to dry it quickly. If I wanna hit that solution on it, I can bring it up a little higher. This is just a soft bristle brush. I could use a bath towel as well on here. They do make some telescoping wands as well that I could get up a little higher with it. But you can see, it does a pretty nice job of just doing this here. So with that, I'm gonna move this out of the way. I'm gonna put my safety glasses on, and we're gonna clean this. So this is a little tough in here. One of the things it does say on the actual solution is that I can use it full strength. So I had cut it down pretty good. Let's see if we just go, put this into a more manageable style, and pour it full strength. It does work a little better, although we do still have some pretty good areas in here I'm gonna have to get in with a bristle brush. So the idea with this is again, don't let your awning get stored while it's wet. We're gonna have to come back here. Even though it did work a little bit better, I still have some really, really stubborn stains. I'm gonna probably have to come back with something a little stronger, maybe some TSP, maybe a bleach solution. Put about 1/8 of a cup of bleach in with some water. If you don't like bleach, go with TSP. Otherwise, you're gonna have to do some really hard elbow grease.
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