Our house is in quite an exposed position being pretty much on the top of a hill with little to shelter it from the wind in any direction, but despite being on the edge of the Met Office’s “red” warning area we seem to have got off relatively lightly.
One of the greenhouses has developed a slight lean that will need sorting out when the weather warms up and the roof was ripped off the tree house, but the most awkward damage is a bit of the wrinkly tin on the workshop roof that ended up flapping about and now needs replacing, and this:
It’s tough to see, but there’s a dark patch just to the right of the chimney in the third course of tiles from the ridge, where a tile isn’t. It’s rather more obvious from inside.
The worst thing about this is that the tiles haven’t been made for decades, so they’re irreplaceable. By sheer chance however it must have slid down the roof and into a small hazel trees which broke it’s fall leaving it in one piece on the ground.
Because the house is built on sloping ground and the cellar is effectively above ground at the point below the missing tile, it must be about seven metres to the gutter and a further two to the hole. Way too scary for me to want to play with ladders. I’ve tried replacing the tile from the inside, but there’s too much danger of dislodging another so I’m going to have to talk to Baldrick and see if he has any cunning plans.