What is the best way to make sure a window-box
does not blow down in a gale?

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Timothy Murphy
wibbled on Thursday 29 April 2010 12:25

What is the best way to make sure a window-box
does not blow down in a gale?


Hi Tim,

Depends - what's the box like and what's the wall made of?

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Tim Watts

Managers, politicians and environmentalists: Nature's carbon buffer.

Tim Watts wrote:
Timothy Murphy
wibbled on Thursday 29 April 2010 12:25

What is the best way to make sure a window-box
does not blow down in a gale?


Hi Tim,

Depends - what's the box like and what's the wall made of?


Plastic? Put some old sash weights in the bottom. Terra cotta types
don't move IME.
Whatever type, keep them well watered. I use a vermiculite/compost
mixture, which should make them lighter but, in fact, makes them heavier
due to the extra water holding capacity.

Tim Watts wrote:

What is the best way to make sure a window-box
does not blow down in a gale?

Depends - what's the box like and what's the wall made of?

The window-box is terracotta, and quite heavy.
However, it did fall in a gale 2 years ago,
and made a hole in a roof (not mine) below.


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Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
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Timothy Murphy
wibbled on Friday 30 April 2010 01:34

Tim Watts wrote:

What is the best way to make sure a window-box
does not blow down in a gale?

Depends - what's the box like and what's the wall made of?

The window-box is terracotta, and quite heavy.
However, it did fall in a gale 2 years ago,
and made a hole in a roof (not mine) below.



Heavy iron brackets bolted into the wall then.

The brackets should be upturned at the front so that it can't slip off in
the wind.

Or if you are sitting this on the window cill (you don't say), then bolt
some straight iron strips to the front of the cill so they stand up in
front of the box to prevent it slipping off.

If you need weird shaped iron, and don't have the facilities to bend it,
find a blacksmith - but what you need could be done with some flat bar, an
engineers vice and a club hammer.

--
Tim Watts

Managers, politicians and environmentalists: Nature's carbon buffer.

Timothy Murphy wrote:

What is the best way to make sure a window-box
does not blow down in a gale?

Put it on the inside......

.... I'll get my coat!


--
Scott

Where are we going and why am I in this handbasket?

"Timothy Murphy" wrote in message
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What is the best way to make sure a window-box
does not blow down in a gale?


Put it on the inside?

S