Outsunny 8' x 7' Patio Retractable Awning Manual Sun Shade Mixed Color

Word of Caution: I actually did what is NOT recommended and purchased this to replace the junk bag-style awning on our pop-up camper. I just couldn't help but think I could make this work because of its relatively light weight (35 lbs) and the fact that I would never have to mess with setting up flimsy support poles on the ends when extended. I figured the awning itself would work very well, and it definitely does! My worry was it becoming damaged and/or even falling off of the side of the camper while driving. I'm pleased to say that by modifying the mounting brackets just slightly, it works very well! I do still use a pair of rubber straps with hooks around the retracted awning just as a precautionary device to further hold the unit to the camper's roof rack while driving, but after a few trips on both highways and dirt roads, I would say these are unnecessary. Not only did the awning mount well to the camper, it is super easy to extend and retract! You can also extend it to whatever length you like - it does not have to be fully extended to work - this is great for higher-than-normal winds! The arms are sturdy, yet lightweight, and the solid green cloth is slightly translucent, but does provide great shade and rain protection! I've even wrapped LED string lights around the arms to light it up underneath at night! To mount, I actually had to drill holes vertically through the ends of the brackets and in the square frame tube for the mounting bolts so it would hold together without any sliding or lateral movement - everything is tightened down better by doing this. Even though this comes with several styles of mounting hardware, I did have to purchase custom nut/bolt/washer assemblies to properly mount the brackets to the camper roof, but this minor extra expense was well worth it! If this thing works super well on our pop-up, it will certainly work well when conventionally installed over a window, door, or small patio on your house/building!

The awning is terrific: solid construction, good hardware, and assorted mounting bolts (lag bolts and expansion bolts). The assembly instructions are horrible. It's a shame because it's a great awning and they dropped the ball on making the experience perfect. There are two problems with the instruction pamphlet. First, it was written in broken English. Second, the illustrations lacked detail and the images were muddy (very low contrast). If the text is well written and clear, but the illustrations were marginal you could get by. If the illustrations were excellent, but the text was poor you'd be okay. If the text and illustrations are poor - you have a failed instruction/assembly manual and it tarnishes the overall experience. Bottom line - It's a great awning and I would buy it again (especially now that I know how to put it together). If it's your first time buying this awning, be patient and don't rush yourself with the assembly. P.S. I attached my awning to the stucco using lag bolts to connect the brackets to the studs. The kit includes 3" lag bolts but I had to buy longer ones.

Installed this awning on the side of our dock house. The materials were of surprising good quality and the overall design and installation procedure was well thought-out. Opening the box was a little daunting because it arrives with lots of parts and pieces. I just took my time, minimized the distractions and tried to follow the directions, which were poorly illustrated with little to no explanation. The parts illustrations were terrible, with basically lots of the parts pictures looking identical to one another! I assembled it in my shop on a workbench, which helped a lot, Mostly, I just needed a few metric wrenches, a screw driver and a rubber hammer. Once I figured out how it was going together it all started to make sense. The final installation went very smoothly; absolutely requiring two people to put it up into the well-designed steel brackets. It works perfectly, looks great and seems like it will last a long time. I would absolutely buy this product again.

With little more than a hundred bucks, this product is a great value - compare to using professional services companies to install an awning it would cost nearly 3X-5X times more. The product is very sturdy, and after it's installed, very easy to use and provides great value. A couple of minor issues with the product design, the over-hanging valance part isn't hanging in flat and striaght fashion but wrinkled (see photos), so it would be better to use an clothing iron to straighten it first before install. And the horizontal bar is slightly tilted after awning's full extension, could be due to the location of the support arms not perfrectly even. The assembly and install process is actually not that difficult, but being made much wrose by the unclear and confusing assembly instruction manual. The illustration diagrams are too small to tell the assembly details, and the descritpions are also confusing. I had to go onto YouTube to find some tutorial videos to figure out the whole assembly process. The most challenge part of the installation on the wall is to find the studs to mount the support jack or base. For homes like mine where wall exterior is covered by sidings, the typical stud finders used on dry walls won't work. So I had to use a small drill to first drill a few places to make sure I find the stud or beam, and not mounting the awning on the wall sidings which won't be able to support the awning's weight.

Overall a decent awning for the price. We have had for 4 years and thinking of replacing due to fabric fade. The mechanics still work fine. The fabric did fray on the overhang after a couple of years and the fabric stains. The installation instructions were poor, but with some patience was able to figure it out.

I was concerned that this would look cheap. It actually looks very nice and is a great color match for my house. And it definitely keeps me out of the sun and it's large enough for a few guests to sit underneath it with you.

You get what you pay for. Myself and a 'handyman' worked 5 hours trying to install. NO parts were labeled. No way to tell left parts from right, up vs down, no errows and any type of indication which was the right side up. We even had my lap top out watching a "how to" UTUBE on installing a Outsunny 8'x7' awning. UTBUE was the same make (Outsunny) but they had different parts. Of course when the UTUBE said left wing, or right side up we didn't know left from right, up or down. We installed and uninstalled 3 or 4 times. After 5 hours we were exhaused. It is what it is. Awning does NOT retrack all the way. See picture. If I try and force the closer the pressure put on the Front Bar (supposibly_ parts C&D) break. Oh, by the way this bar is NOT Aluminum it's plastic, see how it just breaks away. I can't even give one star. The only reason I am not returning for a refund is I can't imaging undoing all the screws and bolts, plus having holes in my wall. If you are looking for a small awning make sure the reviews say "EASY TO INSTALL- EVERYTHING MARKED ACCORDINGLY- INSTRUCTIONS GREAT WITH ILLISTATIONS

Fabric was not as thick as other brands we’ve purchased. Color is a very light gray so it doesn’t cut out the sun’s heat as much as the coffee brown we had previously.

El artículo es de buena calidad y fácil de armar, pero a mi me llegaron piezas abolladas, principalmente el riel donde debe correr la punta de los brazos y fue muy desgastante tratar de enderezarlas. Deberían colocar muchas MUCHAS etiquetas de “FRÁGIL” al ser aluminio se deforma! Siendo Justo, al final se arma muy fácil y quedó muy bien!

Good product. Brackets should be a little bit bigger in order to distribute the weight of the awning to the house and easier to match both brackets to the exterior wall studs.

I had previously purchased an 8 foot awning from this manufacturer, which arrived fully assembled and was relatively easy to install and adjust. These 10 foot awnings came almost entirely disassembled; boxes of parts and fasteners, with instructions that were rather poor - more than once I had to refer to the 8 foot awning I'd already put up. Kind of like Ikea but with poorer instructions. Took hours of work to assemble and install.

The brick around our patio door is framed by slanted aluminium siding so we had exactly 8 feet of space for mounting into the brick and it did not fit!! For anyone else with this problem, know that the fabric of the awning is 8 feet wide but the mechanism and mounting hardware adds about 2" on each side. We had to first mount a 2x6 plank (pressure treated) into the 2x4 framing under the siding with 6" leg bolts and then mount the brackets to that. Aside from that, the installation would have been quite simple. Fast shipping and arrived perfect condition.

Il est de bonne qualité, facile à installer, mais il est un peu lourd, il est important de renforcer le mur où il est installé