Storm Damage (again)

[BrideXIII]

Bungees, now there's an idea ... they're good for all sorts of things

oh yes, including torturing recalitrant husbands

[ailsasyl]

oh feel for you two sheds, its miserable here too, I was out working last night rain so heavy i had to drive real slow at one point, didn't help when some numpty was driving with no lights on! saw him at last minute. Glad I'm off today.

[BrideXIII]

Its absolutely hammering down here with 48mph gusts, poor kids will be soaked when they get in in a minute.
so far mine is still standing, although i have had to move things off the top shelves as it is swaying a lot.

I also had to tape all the joints when mine went last time, as it actually lifted apart , the base was still staked down though its just the rest of it was next door

[HeyWayne]

Its absolutely hammering down here with 48mph gusts, poor kids will be soaked when they get in in a minute.

Leaving them waiting outside for that amount of time is just cruel!

[BrideXIII]

Leaving them waiting outside for that amount of time is just cruel!

lol, the dog is just as bad, he stands with his head out the cat flap for 15 minutes when they are due home, he is soaked now lol.

[Kayt]

lol, the dog is just as bad, he stands with his head out the cat flap for 15 minutes when they are due home, he is soaked now lol.

Or is he trying to stop the cat from getting in? Mind you, if its anything like my old cat he hasn't seen the light of day today from under the duvet!! I'm coming back as a cat.

[SlugLobber]

Ours is the windiest garden in the western world ....

Yours and mine both, Two Sheds. Can't add to the advice already given, but can offer lots of sympathy as this happened to me in the Spring. I weighed it down ok, but the wind was so strong, the cover tore to pieces. I was heartbroken, as it was a huge walk-in one, bought as a present by my ex-work colleagues only two weeks before. I'm currently looking at those 'space-saver' proper greenhouses, but all the places I can put it don't get the sun very much.

Hope you feel better soon and do take the advice of trying to rescue some stuff. I did get some crops, despite having no greenhouse. Have a hug (())xx

[zazen999]

We've got a new kitchen door being fitted tomorrow - it's gonna take about 3 hours...they have had to hand make it as it's too wide and short for normal doors [very old house].

I'm worried as to how chuffin cold I'm gonna get when he is working on it...my desk [I work from home] is right in the firing line of any wind howling straight into the kitchen/dining room.

brrrrrr

[BrideXIII]

Or is he trying to stop the cat from getting in? Mind you, if its anything like my old cat he hasn't seen the light of day today from under the duvet!! I'm coming back as a cat.

nah the girls were in, jasper came in for ten minutes and lay on the windowsill with steam rising of his wet fur, waited till he was dry, then went out again, that cat is mental.
the wind has dropped a bit now, but some of the plastic has ripped again on the joins on the the GH, never fear though have ordered some heavy duty tape specifically for gardens 100% waterproof stuff from wilkies and will do a repair jobby as soon as the wind drops enough.

[piskieinboots]

The way I solved it was to lay a paving slab on the bottom shelf of each mini greenhouse - they never moved again.

Yep, this worked for me also

Chin up lass ((hugs))
*passes TS hot bovril laced with voddy

[Demeter]

the wind has dropped a bit now, but some of the plastic has ripped again on the joins on the the GH, never fear though have ordered some heavy duty tape specifically for gardens 100% waterproof stuff from wilkies and will do a repair jobby as soon as the wind drops enough.

I used green gaffer tape from B&Q on mine. Feared for it in all the wind last night but (fingers crossed) it seems to be holding up so far.

The mini plastic GH is tied to the fence through those eye-screw type things and doesn't seem to move. The walk-in one is also tied to the fence, and pegged into the ground all around, and has guy ropes criss-crossed over the top, but it still rattles around! I guess the sheer size of it compared with the mini makes it more susceptible. Seems a bit calmer here tonight, phew...

[BrideXIII]

thats the tape i have ordered, 3.49 for 50 meters, should be better than the other duck tape i used as that is seperating in the wet, i am determined to keep it going until next year, and then see if i can afford a 'real one'

[knittywittywoo]

My greenhouse blew down at the beginning of september. It ws a big plastic walk in one from B&Q. Hubby had tied it to the concrete shed and bolted it to the patio but it still went. It just broke the bottom supports. Next year hopefully another greenhouse and less wind. It was my first year this year and next year I'm hopeful for a glass one.

[Duronal]

Paving slab in use here too. It works a treat.... i hope you have better luck soon.

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[Flummery]

Poor old Two Sheds (less of the old, eh?) Rubbish innit? The one good thing that has come out of the fact that it's been blowing a hooley here for 3 days is the quantity of next door's fantastically big Bramleys that have landed in the garden. He told us to have them - he's got hundredweights! Last year one of the branches overhung our greenhouse (not a plastic one!) and one of the panes was replaced 3 times that winter. The offending branch is gone now!