Wind trashing my greenhouse

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point3 wrote: »

The manufacturer's advice was to keep the window and door open during high winds to let the wind blow through, but I've found that keeping the window shut actually works better . I have the window facing into the wind direction, so that if I open it it creates a funnel effect with all the force causing the panel in the door on the opposite wall to blow out. That said, it's easy enough to just fit the panel in again once the gales are over. Thankfully they don't occur often.

dh always said to keep the door shut as the wind can get in and lift the glass, we also have an old fishing net over ours as a pane was blown out once and the glass landed on the pavement at the front of the house always thought it would just fall to the floor

peter_the_piper

I always shut the door but leave the lights open a tad. The logic being that as the wind blows over the roof it sucks up the light, leaving it slightly open relieves the negative pressure.

prettypennies

A couple of years ago, I had one of those polyethene greenhouses. I had successfully managed to grow a nice little selection of toms and aubergines etc.

At the time our local Focus was closing down and I bought some cans of cheap yellow paint. I put them in the greenhouse until I could use it.

Unfortunately, following one particularly windy night, I awoke to found what looked like an explosion in a custard factory!

The greenhouse had been battered that much that the paint had jettisoned out the front door and lavished itself all over my veggies, the fence, and the walls and windows of mine and my neighbour's houses!!!:eek:

It's a good job really it wasn't red paint or it would have looked like a hammer house of horrors scene.

My beloved little greenhouse was so caked in paint, that we had to sling it.
So I am back to planting in pots at the mo.