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Post by Trowel 🏴 on Jan 21, 2024 22:15:13 GMT
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Post by harrypalmer on Jan 21, 2024 22:15:54 GMT
I’m sleeping in a loft. It is not fun.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Jan 21, 2024 22:24:03 GMT
I'm in a loft too. I'm weirdly enjoying the sound of the wind battering the roof.
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Post by Honk If You're Horny? on Jan 21, 2024 22:42:59 GMT
I'm top floor and whilst I enjoy stormy weather it's tempered by concern that the roof will lose a tile or be damaged and I'll have a leak again.
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Post by Nitrous on Jan 21, 2024 23:00:56 GMT
I don't like hearing whatever is going on above us in the loft, should have stayed downstairs.
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Post by nexus6 on Jan 21, 2024 23:01:25 GMT
An old tree has just come down in the green in front of mine. All over the path and the road.
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Post by paulyboy81 on Jan 21, 2024 23:13:35 GMT
Down one fence panel already, the night is still young...
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Post by richardiox on Jan 21, 2024 23:20:47 GMT
If you park right outside your house and have a drive, pull the car back as far as you can. Last winding event the neighbour had a roof tile straight through her windscreen.
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Post by paulyboy81 on Jan 21, 2024 23:42:00 GMT
Yeah did that earlier. Last year during similar weather half a dozen houses on our street ended up with roof tiles on the driveway. Fortunately it was during the day so everyone was at work and no one had their car trashed miraculously.
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Post by simple on Jan 22, 2024 0:42:32 GMT
It sounds a lot like everything in our yard has taken off.
Speaking of which, my folks are supposed to be setting off for Manchester at 4am to fly to Sweden in the morning. I’m reasonably confident the flight will be cancelled so not afraid for them that way but I am almost equally sure that they might still try and make the drive. Which, lets face it, is far more dangerous.
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Post by Saul1138 on Jan 22, 2024 1:32:35 GMT
The wind had been howling for most of the evening. About an hour before my alarm was due to go off, I thought which of my insane, bastsrd neighbours is setting off fireworks in this weather? Then I realised, ah, roof tiles.
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Post by zisssou on Jan 22, 2024 9:37:09 GMT
Well there goes our back gate. It's always been a bit wobbly, so time to get it ripped out and a straight fence over I think. Sigh.
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Post by motti82 on Jan 22, 2024 9:46:05 GMT
It sounds a lot like everything in our yard has taken off. Speaking of which, my folks are supposed to be setting off for Manchester at 4am to fly to Sweden in the morning. I’m reasonably confident the flight will be cancelled so not afraid for them that way but I am almost equally sure that they might still try and make the drive. Which, lets face it, is far more dangerous. I live close to the airport, and it was very quiet over there overnight for good reason. Thankfully nothing damaged/broken around here that I can find....
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jan 22, 2024 10:06:19 GMT
Round our way, the wind knocked the roof off a costa coffee and shat bricks and tiles all over the main road through town which made the school run fun.
On an even more local level, our recycling wheelie bin ended up migrating to next doors garden again which I wish I could have seen. Our bin store seems to create a vortex of some kind. Every time a storm comes in, all of our bins decide to run around like they are on Toy Story.
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Post by jimnastics on Jan 22, 2024 10:06:40 GMT
Can anyone give me a ballpark figure on what I should be paying a roofer to put a single roof edge tile back on, before I call around?? It's fallen down and got lodge in the gutter...
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Post by Dougs on Jan 22, 2024 10:15:53 GMT
That might depend on access etc I guess. Got a few displaced ridge tiles on my mum's bungalow but because of where it is, it might need scaffolding. Waiting for a quote from a chap with a cherry picker...
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Post by nexus6 on Jan 22, 2024 10:17:04 GMT
Can anyone give me a ballpark figure on what I should be paying a roofer to put a single roof edge tile back on, before I call around?? It's fallen down and got lodge in the gutter... If he’s not a dick it should be about 25 quid at the most. Time mainly, if the thing isn’t damaged.
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Post by geefe on Jan 22, 2024 10:18:10 GMT
My, admittedly DIY and probably not deep enough, fence is on its last legs. The garden had all the clay and mortar throw in about a foot down from when it was originally built.
I'll bite the bullet and just rip the fucking thing down then pay a professional to put in a full concrete one.
Think it's safe to say this weather is the new normal.
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Post by zisssou on Jan 22, 2024 10:43:32 GMT
I'm already dreading the quote. There's always a toss up between repairing shit, and doing actual renovations on this house...
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jan 22, 2024 10:49:29 GMT
That might depend on access etc I guess. Got a few displaced ridge tiles on my mum's bungalow but because of where it is, it might need scaffolding. Waiting for a quote from a chap with a cherry picker... Yeah, we had a quote to put that mesh guard thing bit back on the chimney. £50 part, £80 labour, £300 for the gear to get onto the roof in the first place. Just awaiting our first dead pigeon blocking up the log burner now...
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Post by Dougs on Jan 22, 2024 11:13:03 GMT
My brother's mate is a roofer and said in the past, he'd have just shimmied up there and slapped some cement on it, but they're not allowed to now.
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Post by zisssou on Jan 22, 2024 11:14:18 GMT
We needed a cowl putting on our chimney, and you wish it was a job they'd say it's £20 to do. Finding someone to do it for that is rare in my case. The funniest quote I had was £350 for a 5 minute job ha.
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Post by zisssou on Jan 22, 2024 13:06:30 GMT
5 metres. £500. Ouch.
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Post by cubby on Jan 22, 2024 13:15:52 GMT
This morning's drive into work was fun. Have to drive down a long windy A road which is a few miles long, and then suddenly just near the end where I would normally come out the road is closed for gas pipe work that said it had started last Friday. I was off work on Friday so it's the first I heard of it, and I was fuming that now I have to drive all the way back and round another way. And why the fuck wasn't there any road closed signs in advance??
As I drove back down I realised that every single Road Ahead Closed sign had blown over in the wind last night!
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Post by Vortex on Jan 22, 2024 14:25:09 GMT
That's rubbish for you cubby, but also quite funny for those of us who didn't need to take the scenic route round.
Especially after the rage and spotting the knocked over signs & realising what they likely were.
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Post by geefe on Jan 22, 2024 14:28:28 GMT
I can't remember the last time I wanted winter to be over so badly. Easily moves into Worst Season winner.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Jan 22, 2024 14:30:14 GMT
Outside of personal injury and property damage, I love the wind and Winter weather in general
Nothing better than howling wind or rain to get to sleep to
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Post by RumMonkey on Jan 22, 2024 14:36:45 GMT
Winter in other countries I've lived hasn't been bad. Fresh, cold and sunny days are nice. In the UK it's fucking shit and rains constantly.
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jan 22, 2024 14:53:21 GMT
I can't remember the last time I wanted winter to be over so badly. Easily moves into Worst Season winner. I think it was winter 20/21 or 21/22 when we were in lockdown and it absolutely wanked it down for basically three straight months so leaving the house was pretty much impossible. That was legitimately the shittest period of time I can remember in my lifetime.
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Post by Dougs on Jan 22, 2024 16:07:25 GMT
Yeah, 21/22 I think. Utterly miserable. On the flip side, summer 2020 was legit amazing. Couldn't go anywhere really but at least you could sit in the garden.
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