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Looks like Jersey/Guernsey and northern France will get the worst of it with potential 100mph gusts. The BBC Weather forecast earlier inspired confidence by kicking off with a large image in the background with houses missing their roofs :? and then zoomed the weather map onto Jersey :?
Tim.
Tim.
TitanTim said:
On 16 October 1987 Sevenoaks lost several of its Oak trees. 25 January 1990 was pretty blowy too. I was living near Guildford and had no electricity for a few days.
But as I was working in the claims department of an insurance company on both occasions the overtime was a bonus.
Did they rename it 4 oaks?Mr Tidy said:TitanTim said:
On 16 October 1987 Sevenoaks lost several of its Oak trees. 25 January 1990 was pretty blowy too. I was living near Guildford and had no electricity for a few days.
But as I was working in the claims department of an insurance company on both occasions the overtime was a bonus.
Mr Tidy said:TitanTim said:
If that is excluded I'd be wanting to change insurer - that's bugger-all use!
Got me thinking now :lol: Just checked my Policy, think I've missread the pollicy document in the past
Mentions I'm covered for storm damage where winds are over 55mph, don't know why I thought the roof was excluded, think I've misread it that I wouldn't be covered if winds exceeded 55, doh. Anyways fences definitely excluded and damage caused by frost but upside is I'm covered for a nuclear blast 
Ti.
Living in a bungalow, I'm relatively sheltered from the mansion house next door so would probably get their roof ontop of mine 
During the last BIG storm we had here in around 2017, my newly finished house decided to let quite a few of the (very expensive) roof slates go with the 87mph wind. We found slates (or remnants of) next morning in our next door neighbours' garden......our rear garden was 500ft long!TitanTim said:
Then, of course, muggins here had to get up on the roof and sort it out. The wind had ripped some of the ridge tiles off aswell...these were screwed to ridge battens, so it was quite a force. I will never forget the noise of that night, as we were surrounded by a spinney on two sides and 70ft high Poplars on another. That and our roof slates 'chattering' all night. Luckily none of the trees fell on the house. One big Ash did fall onto our rear garden, but that was good, as I got the chainsaw out and had free firewood for months!
I didn't get a wink of sleep that night...but of course my wife and 12 year old daughter slept through the lot! :roll:
Pondrew said:During the last BIG storm we had here in around 2017, my newly finished house decided to let quite a few of the (very expensive) roof slates go with the 87mph wind. We found slates (or remnants of) next morning in our next door neighbours' garden......our rear garden was 500ft long!TitanTim said:
Then, of course, muggins here had to get up on the roof and sort it out. The wind had ripped some of the ridge tiles off aswell...these were screwed to ridge battens, so it was quite a force. I will never forget the noise of that night, as we were surrounded by a spinney on two sides and 70ft high Poplars on another. That and our roof slates 'chattering' all night. Luckily none of the trees fell on the house. One big Ash did fall onto our rear garden, but that was good, as I got the chainsaw out and had free firewood for months!
I didn't get a wink of sleep that night...but of course my wife and 12 year old daughter slept through the lot! :roll:
I'm not very good with heights but had to get up on the roof a few months back as noticed an old Flue chimney pot was listing at 45 degrees and letting in rain water down the flue. I can never walk up a roof as always too afraid of losing my balance so put some some builders knee pads on and crawled up the roof. I was thinking whilst up there if I fall its only a bungalow so not far to fall :lol: I crawled backwards back down the roof, the neighbours if watching must have thought there's that idiot again.
Tim.
TitanTim said:
That makes more sense.
I soon lost count of the number of people who made storm claims for knackered flat roofs when there was nothing more than a breeze. :roll:
Winds over 55 mph may cause roof damage, although a decent roof should withstand much higher wind speeds.
AFAIK fences have never been covered for storm damage, because they always blow over!