At 12 noon I had been listening to the radio, washing the dishes and decided never the less to put out the scrap food bag.
The radio had just said, don't go out if not necessary so, I just stepped out the back door to the bin and Clatter- Bang- Wollop- Thump, my chimney's top half was pulled down by the wind whipped TV Aerial.
It bounced down the back of the cottage roof and making several holes in the roof tiles, landed on the flat roof and slid further onto the paving in the garden by the Recycle Bins and me !
Luckily by immediately phoning a local roofing firm Ascot Roofing, I got allocated a repair man the next day at 12.30 pm .
They arrived in pouring rain and immediately removed all the broken roof tiles and replaced with some from my store of original roof tiles, which I had kept in the garden since they were surplus to the extension we had added some 20 years ago. Ok, so they were green tiles and the roof is now red tiles, so there are a few patches visible but the result was a dry house.
When my brother visited, he removed a few loose bricks and it just needed sorted then Feb 2023.
As good luck would have it, while parked in the Christmas Bakery, Worplsedon a roof repair van arrived and Alan the driver asked me to follow him to his local roofing store of Second Hand Tiles and Chimney Pots to buy a replacement pot.
This luck was followed by a local cafe manager saying her boyfriend was a roofer and carpenter and so Sam repaired the chimney some 12 months after it was damaged - but looking good now.
Sept.2023.
