Creating an awning myself

04-24-2010, 05:54 PM	#1
kirridam Member   Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 39	Creating an awning myself Folks, I want to create a simple door canvas awning myself. Something like this: http://www.cheapawnings.com/eli.html Can someone direct me in the right direction? thanks dor

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04-25-2010, 08:15 AM	#2
Willie T Old School     Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: St. Petersburg, FL Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everything which is beyond them. Posts: 3,071	Creating an awning myself The sewing part would get me. __________________ "True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and only that which is." François Duc de La Rochefoucauld Willie T Last edited by Willie T; 04-25-2010 at 08:42 AM.

04-25-2010, 09:41 AM	#3
Ron6519 Member   Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Long Island, NY Posts: 9,519	Creating an awning myself You would need to fabricate a form out of metal that would support regional loads. Where do you live? You would also need a sewing machine to handle some heavy material. Ron

04-25-2010, 09:51 AM	#4
Thurman Household Handyman   Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Albany, Ga. Posts: 2,210	Creating an awning myself Wow! We just did one of these to place over a friends back door. Six feet wide, four feet deep, three feet high. We made the frame out of electrical conduit. We cut, bent, and fit until we had what he wanted and would fit over the door, then MIG welded it all together. After wire brushing the welds, priming and painting it looked pretty good. Now--he, nor I can sew a stitch in anything. So, he took the frame to a company that makes tarps for trailer trucks and got lucky. They had some scrap stripped material which he liked and they allowed one of the employees to work after hours to cut, fit, and sew up the cover to the frame. Darn thing looks really good. Total cost in this was under $100 installed, not bad. Just a thought and suggestion, David