SUPPORT

Pretty much! If your vehicle has an awning rail or gutter rail chances are it will attach. They even connect to 4x4s such as Defenders and small caravans such as Eriba Pucks. If you have a high-top van we have introduced a high-top glawning especially for you: here! There's lots more information about connecting a glawning to your van: here.

This depends on what sort of van you have. On some vans the canopy will slide straight into the existing awning rail via the 6mm beading; some vans work best with a figure of eight connector; some vans need a universal pole and clamp. We sell most of the attachments required and there's lots more information and instructional videos: here.

Yes! One of our favourite features is that the glawning can be fitted to either side of a vehicle and still have one door facing forwards because the two glawning doors are identical and the canopy can attach to either of them – pretty smart if we do say so ourselves!

Yes! To drive away, just unhitch from whatever connector you’re using with your van and either leave the canopy hanging or remove it and store it inside your glawning. It works perfectly as a standalone two-door bell tent when it’s not being an awning – so it’s very handy for garden parties, kids’ sleepovers etc. too.

The glawning is very straightforward to put up. You can see an instructional video here

With practice, it can be done by one person in around twenty minutes. We recommend allowing longer for the first few times until you become absolute glawning whizz! To see a video of James (Mr Glawning) putting one up on his own in under 10 minutes real time, click: here!

The connecting canopy section adds an extra 135cm on the side of the tent, and the tent part is 500cm across for the 5m and 400cm for the 4m. You have the guy ropes going out at 12 points and the dimensions of your van of course. So, for the 5m you need at least 7m plus the width of your van across the front, and 7m back, to fit it in comfortably, and a metre less for the 4m but it’s difficult to give an exact footprint because the guy ropes can be lengthened and shortened as desired so it’s adaptable if necessary.

We also sell reducer poles so the guy lines can run even shorter! Find our reducer poles: here.

You can view product specs for both size Glawnings here:

4m/5m glawningLITE spec:

• Overall Weight:  36kg/43kg
• Packed Size(in delivery box):  115 x 34 x 34cm
• Pitching Time:  10 minutes
• Minimum Pitch Size: 8 x 6 m/ 9 x 7m
• Kador Length:  250cm
• Canvas:  200gsm, polycotton, waterproof, mildew resistant 
• Groundsheet: black 420D Oxford fabric (waterproof, PU coating) 
• Poles: aluminium 
• Fire Compatible:YES (stove jack pre-installed with fireproof square & Velcro flap)

Weights of all our products are found in the individual product specs on our website shop.

5m GlawningLITE: 36kg

4m GlawningLITE: 43kg

5m GlawningHUB (3 door): 31kg

Packed up size: 115x37x37m

Yes, glawnings are waterproof! Cotton is naturally waterproof but you can speed-up the natural weatherproofing offered by canvas by weathering your glawning when you first receive it. You can read more info and instructions: here. To keep it in tip-top condition we recommend reproofing your glawning once a year or more (depending on how much use it gets). You can either go to a professional tent waterproofing company for this, if you’re feeling fancy, or carry out an easy DIY job… read our blog: 'Reproofing a Canvas Tent: When, Why, and How?'

Yes! It does a great job! We’ve had ours up in the foulest of weathers and it’s no stranger to gale-force winds in which it did us proud. The heavy-duty metal pegs anchored at 12 points and tensioned on one central pole makes for a very sturdy fixture that ain’t goin’ nowhere! (Ask other glawning owners too – don’t just take our word for it!) Of course, it is still just a humble tent so there are limits to the weather conditions it's able to withstand. Please exercise caution and in extreme wind it is advisable to take the glawning down to protect it from damage. Leave the extreme weather testing to us!

We reckon the 4m glawning comfortably sleeps 4 adults and the 5m comfortably sleeps 6 adults. This will depend, though, on how much stuff you like to bring along, what kind of beds you use, and how big your humans are. We have had 14 people sitting in a 5m glawning merrily quaffing wine. You can set your own limits!

On the glawningLITE there is a fireproof prefitted stove jack. You need to do some cutting but there is a guide on our YouTube channel.

On the original cotton canvas glawnings (now discontinued) you cut the hole for yourself. Don’t worry – it’s a lot easier than it sounds and full instructions are provided! You can view the stove care and flashing kit instructions: here.

For more advice on installing the flashing kit, read our blog: here.

Heads up! Although our flashing kits are able to take heats of up to 300 degrees it is not advisable to burn your stove so hot that the flue gets to this temperature for prolonged periods of time unless you have a double wall flue as it will decrease the life span of the silicone and you may end up having to replace it sooner.  We strongly advise that you invest in a Stove Pipe Thermometer to put on the flue near the flashing kit to give yourself a gauge of how hot it is getting near the flashing so you can keep it at optimum temperature (below 300 degrees).

Also if you have a larger flued stove such as the Vista don't forget to trim your flashing kit using these instructions before use.  The flue edges can be sharp so when inserting the flue into the flashing kit be careful not to snag the rubber.

While wood-burners are safe like your household woodburner, for health and safety reasons we must officially recommend that you extinguish fires before sleeping in your glawning. Also, fit a carbon monoxide detector in your glawning for peace of mind too.

Our polycotton glawningLITES are fitted with a fire-retardant stove jack and the rest of the tent is not fire retardant.

Our cotton canvas glawnings are all fire retardant and have been treated with PROBAN® prior to manufacture. Pre-treating the canvas before manufacturing the tent ensures that the PROBAN ® polymer is embedded into the body of the canvas fibres so the treatment can last the life of the tent.  Adding Proban during the initial weaving process means that the fireproofing treatment will not degrade over time. It won't wash off with rain or wear out with UV.  Our glawnings have always complied to the British Standards Institution BS7837 'cigarette test'. BS 7837:1996 is the specification used to gauge the flammability performance of textiles that are used in the construction of marquees and similar textile structures. More recently our tents have also been certified with CPAI-84, the more rigorous Canvas Products Association International version of the ISO6941.