How To Tie A Tarp For An Awning

Remove any rough areas on the washers with sandpaper and tie a washer to the middle of each piece of rope.

How to tie a tarp for an awning.

Attach one s shaped hook to each corner grommet on a nylon mesh tarp that measures 12 by 12 feet. Attempting to wrap your entire vehicle in a blue tarp or tarps can be a headache. Form a loop with your rope and hold it with your left hand. Adjust the pole to the required height tie a loop at one end of a rope for each corner and wrap the loop twice around the protruding end of each pole.

Line up the corner seams of the awning fabric with the corners of the awning frame and clamp in place with spring clamps. If you are putting the fabric on a curved frame clamp both back edges of fabric as well as the center front of the fabric to the frame. Cut pieces accordingly so you can make a steeple style roof. Attach the other end of each s shaped hook to the screw in eyelets at the top of the 8 foot long.

There should be two bars on either side one at the top and five on either side in a 45 angle connecting them together. This will produce a frame with supports in the center to help the tarp. Thread the cord through each grommet and eye bolt screw in a. Fasten a slip knot on each end of both ropes.

Cut 2 pieces of nylon rope measuring 25 feet each. To tie the knot. This means patchwork tucking the tarp into tire wells and more bungees than you d like to deal with. Unless you have an unusually small camper you will need more than one tarp or a large tarp to cover everything.

Put the pointed end of a tent pole through the corner grommets of the tarp from the bottom up.