Greenhouse gone!......

That is awful, Please be careful when you go outside in strong winds rockgran in case there's other stuff flying about

A young friend posted that he had a suitcase fly by his window followed by various other large lumps of debris.

Oh dear, rockgran! My DH is so glad he left one of the greenhouse vents open as otherwise it would have gone the same way.

In the storms a few years ago, I was standing at the kitchen window watching the trees bend over to fortyfive degrees when I saw the garage roof angle up towards me, rise into the air and cartwheel off to land in next door's garden, clipping the conservatory on the way past. It lay there on its back, with the lightbulb still hanging on its flex, unbroken.

Can it be tebuilt or is it past repair?

We have a 70' long greenhouse. It's still standing but it's going to be a big job to replace the broken panes. Some of them are hanging half way out of their frames and with a bit of luck will be easy to shove back in but DH is on Warfarin so there's no way I'm going to let him anywhere near broken glass!!!

No point in worrying about it at the moment.

The little greenhouse has just had panes replaced so fingers crossed.

Take care, rockgran

Ours is beyond repair but DH has come home now and we are planning a new one. At least we hadn't started planting yet. Hope everyone else is safe.

You are going to plant a new greenhouse? Where can I buy seeds?

I wish it was that easy!

I should like greenhouse seeds, must have very strong roots

The main thing is you are all right rockgran

Yes, thanks. I think the wind is dying down a bit now at last. I wish everyone a calm night.

IN the gales of 70 something (the one with Michael Fish, you know! It's just that I can't remember the exact year) well anyway, our tractor shed sort of disappeared, well, it actually ended up distributed across neighbours fields.

October 1987 Phoenix

Have the same problem with a perspex greenhouse. Panels fly off in high winds. We put garden netting over the greenhouse mainly to collect the panels when they flew out but it seem to disperse the wind and they are not as likely to come out in the first place. Hurricane last night but only one panel on garden and 2 in greenhouse. Worth a try garden netting is very cheap

My neighbours shed is in pieces again in the back garden,he has one of those heavy plastic ones where he keeps his bicycle & garden furniture everything blown across the gardens this is the 3rd time he has had to fix it together again in a matter of weeks.When coming home from the Charity Shop yesterday we had locked the doors and where waiting to cross the Road when a massive gust of wind blew my friend into the path of a passing car I just managed to grab her arm to steady her it was really frightening.

My greenhouse (glass) used to lose a few panes every winter until I started leaving the door open. The wind had been getting in through the tiny gaps and pushing its way out through the glass. The open door gave it a way out.

But the winter before last, I forgot that the aluminium incinerator bin stood upwind from the greenhouse. It blew across and went through three panes.

Sorry to hear of the damage - what a gale that was.

We have a very lightweight plastic greenhouse that is just a sheet of plastic over a frame, held down by being tied to a fence, and to my amazement, it's still standing and in one piece. I fully expected to see it flying off down the street, it's obviously tied down better than I thought.

We did have a fence panel blown down, but are very thankful that this is the only damage we've suffered. How those poor people who have been flooded for so long are coping is truly beyond me. I do hope it all starts to improve for them soon.

We've spent the morning clearing up and it has all gone to the tip now. We are going to get a more substantial one and set it back a bit. Should do the trick. Sounds easy when you write it down but I think it may be "a project" what with resiting paving, etc. I like the idea of netting to contain it, welshchrissy. Thanks everyone for your kind comments. ...these flowers are easier to produce!

Haven't been up the garden to inspect my greenhouse. I will go up the garden tomorrow in fear and trembling.

I lost a few roof tiles last night, but some of my neighbours' ridge tiles have been ripped off by the gales. Fortunately, we knew a chap who would drop everything to come and fix them, before the next blast strips the entire roof. It seems to be that the older roofs, such as mine, are standing up better than the newer ones - can't think why.

rockgran sorry to hear you have lost your greenhouse.. we lost one pane in the winds about a month ago..Its a glass one..I went to buy another pane £4-00 and as I was putting it in it slipped out of my hand! and broke...had to go and get another but 1st glass place was closed so had to go to another £8-00 !! this time so cost me £12 for one pane..tut!! but DH was mortified.. his greenhouse is his baby! it survived last nights storm thankfully..as he has some Chrysanths due to arrive shortly. I have read reviews about the plastic Perspex ones and many to say that they are no good in wind.....I wish I had paid extra and got safety glass!! as DH not good on feet and GS cannot play in garden now. good luck with your new greenhouse.

DH was jubilant that all the panes he replaced in the greenhouse last week were still there this morning.

He still hasn't noticed that half the front porch is missing!