Storm Goretti - good luck!!

[charlie]

Oh no Paul, poor Neil has only just got it back to looking great after the removal of the diseased Ash trees :cry:

[Paul S]

Here it is, if you do Instagram.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DTVZBG0jO48/

[Chad]

Power went off at 1900 on Thursday evening.

Came back on Sunday 1720.

No heat or light in between.

I know why everyone else has a log burner!

Not much damage here, one rain down pipe is somewhere off in the garden instead of on the house, and two Olearia traversiorum are down.  They don't make a reliable windbreak. 

One end panel on the tunnel needs refixing, but it is still in place. 

Helston has been without water for two days so far with no power to a pumping station. 

South and West of here got it worse.

I'm counting my blessings. 

Chad

[Chad]

Paul,

Thanks for that link.

Words are inadequate.

Chad

[Chad]

The Isles of Scilly took it badly.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DTU7G5hjfTh/

Chad

[charlie]

Anyone heard how Tregrehan has fared?

[NigelJ]

Latest blog from Tregrehan 16th Jan https://www.tregrehangarden.uk/tregreha ... succession

[charlie]

Tuesday morning saw Cornwall have a spell of very heavy rain which when a section of upstairs ceiling came down led me to discover we hadn't escaped the storm after all!


cant say I enjoyed patching it, sadly the whole roof will need redoing as its past its sell by date and most of the wood battens are rotted and there never was any felt , probably should have scheduled it in before now as that section is over 100 years old!!

[MartinNicklin]

I know that feeling Charlie. My last house was a detached cottage built in 1773. It had a very large garden and the house was very characterful but nothing more than a money pit. I must have spent tens of thousands on roofing alone. I do miss it, and especially the garden, but not the maintenance costs which go hand in hand with a historic property!

[Glen in BC]

Charlie, as a home owner, and also in my case a 50 year veteran of the roofing trade, your photo of an open piece of roof is upsetting indeed! Replacement will not be easy on the budget, unless your nursery business is far more profitable than similar enterprises I'm aware of in my corner of the world :(

We visited a friend's cottage in St Teath a couple years back, and saw their "new" roof which was largely the existing slates which had been removed, cleaned then re-installed. It is amazing for a North American to see a building like that which I think they mentioned was built in the 14-1500s and still has much of the original wooden framing, as well as slates which are of varying vintage but also possibly up to many centuries old! I guess all your slates are from that famous Delabole quarry?...they certainly look top quality from your photo. The lack of underlayment, by the way, is a topic of discussion even out our way...letting the wooden structure breathe has its advantages in delaying the eventual dry rot which we see in our similar climate on the Canadian west coast.

My sympathies from British Columbia, where our winter has so far been one of the most benign in many years :shock: