The Repair Shop star has issued a new update on the 'brutal' weather battering his new home08:14, 10 Jun 2026Updated 08:14, 10 Jun 2026Dominic Chinea, The Repair Shop’s beloved engineering expert, hasn’t had the best luck with the weather after relocating his workshop and family from Kent to Cornwall. When Dominic and his wife Maria packed up their house in Kent last year and moved to Cornwall with their dog Wendy, he admitted that weatherproofing the newly converted workshop would be a “pressure”.‌The dramatic storms that thrashed the county in January made Dominic’s prediction all too real. He was left struggling to make urgent repairs before he could get back to work, all while attempting to complete the renovations for his farmhouse kitchen.‌He said at the time: “The storm has caused a lot of damage, the workshop roof, various tiles and bits and bobs. I’m doing my best to deal with those, I’ve ordered more roof sheets and I’ve lined up roofers to try and fix the roof, but I’m also juggling trying to finish this kitchen.”‌A month later, another violent storm caused a section of his workshop roof to collapse, causing substantial damage to a nearly irreplaceable vehicle he'd been restoring underneath.And now – over a year on from the “life-changing” move to Cornwall, Dominic says it’s all happening again. “All week there has been more crazy weather and there's now weather warnings for wind and it has been brutal,” he explained in a new video.‌“Today is probably one of the worst days,” Dominic said in a the video update. “There is sideways rain, crazy strong winds. It is really not looking good out there. I'm hiding at the top of the workshop because the roller shutter is rattling around and it is so loud down there.“The last few weeks of beautiful sunshine have lulled me into a false sense of security that everything is all okay here. But actually the reality is my gutters are still leaking really badly. I have a plan, but I need bright sunny weather to be able to do that.The workshop’s fragile roof has taken a battering, with Dominic adding: “Some of the cracks and holes in the roof have got a little bit worse with the recent wind, which is letting in a lot of water. I've got water creeping in underneath the roller shutter at the front. I think that's because I need to put a bit of a sort of fall or a slope at the concrete in front of the roller shutter.‌“We'll get to that later,” he added, and went on to say that the punishing weather was causing problems outside the workshop too.“I’ve planted a couple of trees in the field after all the ground works and the levelling has been done, and they are having a tough time. I've staked them, but they are flapping around in the in the wind. I don't know if they're going to survive or not, but we'll have to see."‌Dominic has previously spoken about how stressful he found moving his family from Kent to Cornwall. He said: “It is completely life-changing. It really is."I'm never moving again. It was stressful, but it's like having that workshop and having that at home has been a dream for so long. And I'm very, very fortunate, very grateful that I've actually been able to do it, but it doesn't come easy.”He added: “It has been a lot of work, a huge amount of work, and as I say, it is still very much derelict. I'm still shovelling cow poo out where all my tools are."Article continues belowDominic is back on our screens tonight for the latest episode of The Repair Shop, airing at 8pm on BBC1.