Don we are for sure going to add insulation under the trailer. Thanks for all your suggestions and comments.
AWNING install.
We bought a Dometic 9 ft awning, black onyx is the color. The actual size of the awning is: vinyl is 8 ft. 6 inches. Outside arm bracket to outside arm bracket is 9 ft. 6 inches. Our trailer inside is only 8'6" tall so without some kind of modification, the awning will NOT fit over the door. As you will see in the pics we mounted the awning in the aluminum strip at the top and bottom of the trailer. You need this top to bottom length when you order your awning arms. You could mount the arm at the floor level but we chose to mount the bottom of the arm at the bottom of the trailer. There is a piece of angle metal in both the top and bottom and this is where we anchored the awning screws. When I first talked to the guy about buying it he kind of made it seem harder than it was. You simply put up the aluminum strip at the top that the fabric slides into. slide the awing in and then extend the legs to the ground or a block, screw the top of the arms in and then the bottom. It is easy with two people.
Pay no attention to the white rod hanging down in the pic. It is the rod short people use to unroll and roll the awning. This is the top bracket.
Here is the bottom bracket.
This it the awning rolled out. That is my wife under the awning.
This is the side view of the awning. The blue mat is 6 ft wide so the awning must extend out about 8 ft.
We are still doing small mods that we will post later.
Richard