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Hi all went away in the caravan 2 weeks ago and the wind picked up very bad, had normal bit of movement but we were kept awake all night by a really bad noise coming from roof, i went outside with torch and had a look but could see nothing, in the morn i went out and had a look, (still really windy) and noticed the alumin roof was bouncing up and down with the wind, i would say there is a gap under alumin and this is causing the awfull noise, is this normal? and is there anything that could be done, i looked around the caravan site and noticed quite a few others were moving about with the wind but dont know if they made this awfull noise, it sounds like you are in a zinc shed with a lose zinc lol.

any help would be great.

i was thinking of taking some small wrist and ankle weights and if wind get that strong again put them on roof to stop the bounce lol.

Thanks Welshwiz

unless its a bonded roof it will flex in the wind.our old monza was terrible in the wind as the walls werent bonded either.if it wasnt the roof it was a wall giving a sonic boom.

neil

OMG

Bet you got a heluva fright.

If that happened to me I would had thought my van was breaking apart. Thank you so much to UKCS for all this fantastic info

Thanks every 1 for your help,

i am going to take some small running ankle weights in the car with me and if it happens again i will throw them on the roof to stop the bouncing lol.

Thanks again Welshwiz

I posted the same problem with our van too!  No easy permanent solution to this that I could find. I am tempted to go under aluminium skin from the side awning rail or the rail above the front windows and stuff some bubble rap or those little bags of air used in packaging under the skin along the width of the van so the roof flexes a little but not enough to bang or boom.

Any comments on this idea?

Joe