Barry and Sue,
I know this is a year old post, but I now have some questions about your experience with the Patty O'Shade. We decided to get an awning shade and are looking at the Patty O'Shade and the Carefree brand. I like your comment that the Patty O'Shade coffee color matches your awning, we also have the Classic Umber exterior and our Dometic awning is probably the same color as yours.
The Carefree brand is 6 feet tall where the Patty O'Shade is 4.5 feet tall, it would seem that 4.5 feet would give plenty of extra shade without having another 1.5 feet of material to deal with. In extreme cases I could lower the outer edge of the awning to get the shade closer to the ground. Do you find the 4.5 feet to be plenty of shade material?
Our awning is 16.5 feet long, the Patty O'Shade comes 10 or 15 feet long. I am considering going with the 10 foot one and sliding it along the awning roller as necessary, again to have less material to deal with. Which do you have, any thoughts?
I have read that some roll their awning up with the Patty O'Shade installed, they do this only when stationary in camp at night or when windy, they all remove the shade when traveling. What do you do?
Thanks, Bob A