Sun lounger blowing away: fold it before the gust

The backrest is still upright when you get home, and the Met Office has a warning up for your postcode. A sun lounger blowing away is what that scene becomes if the bed is the light aluminium one you carried out in one hand. Which? says lightweight plastic and aluminium garden furniture can blow away, and the step they give is to store it under shelter when the weather turns.

In the October 2026 amazon.co.uk snapshot, the Lichfield Deluxe, our top pick, lists 4.5 kg. The Homecall 30039 lists 9.2 kg and an adjustable sun visor on a powder-coated aluminium frame. No wind speed is stated on either listing, so none is given here.

Products Compared read the Which? longevity note, Gardeningetc on cover weights, Harbour Lifestyle on securing a cover, and the Met Office warnings page, next to those listings in our aluminium sun lounger comparison. Prices and review counts are from that snapshot. A qualifying purchase through our amazon.co.uk links can earn us a commission at no extra cost to you.

In short

A 4.5 kg bed will move if you leave it open in a gust. Fold it and put it in the shed, or indoors, before the weather arrives. Fit a cover with the straps or clip-on weights its maker designed, and leave loose bricks off the frame.

Why a light sun lounger starts blowing away

The Lichfield Deluxe, ASIN B004M17FXI, lists 4.5 kg, an open size of 180 × 60 × 30 cm, and a 600D polyester surface. In October 2026 it was £46.39, with 4.6 from 1,475 reviews, and the bullets include five positions. That is a folding lounger on a windy patio you can carry alone. With the back raised, the same polyester is a panel the wind can push. The bullets give a folded pack of 80 × 61 × 16 cm.

The listing states no wind figure. A maximum-weight field of 4.6 kg sits beside the 4.5 kg item weight and describes the product itself. The Homecall 30039, ASIN B07ZPL1XLV, lists 9.2 kg on a powder-coated aluminium frame about 200 × 70 cm, at £124.81 with 4.5 from 1,162 reviews, plus an adjustable sun visor. About twice the Lichfield's mass is still cloth on a light frame. Which? groups lightweight plastic and aluminium together and points you to shelter in adverse weather.

A 5 kg sun lounger sits in the same band as this 4.5 kg listing. A steel frame of a similar outline is often heavier, which helps it stay put, and the aluminium or steel page compares the material. The page states no wind rating. Met Office warnings are the forecast you check. This article names no speed at which a lounger lifts.

Put the lounger away before the weather arrives

Fold the bed once you have read the warning, while the patio is calm enough for two hands on the frame. Which? points you to shelter in adverse weather, and the Met Office page tells you whether your area is in it. If you wait until the cover is cracking, you are working in the conditions you meant to avoid.

On the Lichfield the carry is a known quantity: 4.5 kg, and a folded size in the bullets of 80 × 61 × 16 cm. Give yourself about twenty minutes before the warning window, cushions included. A folded pack against a dry wall finishes the job.

The Homecall lists 9.2 kg, and the spec we stored has no folded size. UK reviews on that listing include bars that buckle when the bed is folded. If the fold already feels wrong on a still day, leave that fight and make space for the bed open, under a carport, in a garage, or along a hall. If a 4.5 kg frame is already sliding toward a balcony edge, wait until the push drops, because chasing it is how a light lounger goes over a rail.

Covers, straps, and what you rest on the frame

Gardeningetc describes straps and clip-on weights so the cover does not become a kite. Harbour Lifestyle’s note is the short form: secure the cover. Clip-on weights hold a hem. A 4.5 kg aluminium bed can still slide across balcony tiles, because the frame was light before you bought the sheet.

How to weigh down a sun lounger, if you weigh anything down, means the weights that cover was sold with, fitted where it tells you. A brick, a plant pot, or a spare slab on the tubes can dent a rail, fall on a foot, and become the object that flies. This page gives you no rope pattern. A low cord across a patio is a trip hazard, and the same cord to a balcony rail puts that hazard where a shin and a drop sit close together.

A fitted, strapped cover matches what those cover guides describe, and it can still slide with a 4.5 kg bed across wet tiles. When that slide is unacceptable, use the shed and keep the cover bagged. Take the cushions indoors first. A soaked pad holds water and loads the middle of the cloth. Once the frame is under shelter, drying sits on the how to look after page, which assumes you are keeping a sound bed.

A roof, a balcony, and aluminium furniture in a storm

A visor or canopy is more cloth, set higher than the seat, so it can catch wind a flat bed would have shed. The Homecall 30039 includes an adjustable sun visor on that 9.2 kg frame. United Kingdom reviews say the visor drops onto the chest, and that sun comes through the cloth. A hood that will not stay up is a weak shade, and it is a sail for as long as it stays raised.

To secure a sun lounger on a balcony, bring it inside the flat. Wind between the building and the rail means the same 4.5 kg bed that sat in a sheltered garden corner will walk on porcelain. With no shed, the hall is the shelter. A cord at shin height on the rail is a trip on a narrow ledge, so leave the rail untied. If the open bed will not fit through the door, fold it on a calm morning and read the folded size in the bullet, where the seller has printed one.

The beach page is about carrying a bed to the sand, and the carry is the same 4.5 kg the patio loses when the back is up. Aluminium furniture in a storm belongs indoors or in a shed. No listing in this set prints a wind speed or a balcony rating. You still fold the bed.

If the wind has already thrown it

Stop sitting on a rail that has kinked, and leave the frame untested. Photograph the kink, the place you found the bed, and the date before you drag it and scrape the feet. A lounger left open through a named warning starts from a different place than bars missing on delivery. This page will not tell you whether a refund follows. A bowed rail comes out of use.

Folding a damaged bed can add a second bend. Stored UK reviews on the Homecall 30039 include bars that buckle when it is folded, on a bed listed at 9.2 kg and £124.81. If a rail is already kinked, leave the fold alone. Forcing the hinge because the shed door is narrow turns a weather dent into a crease you added.

Keep a gust apart from a tear found in ordinary use. One UK review on the Lichfield reports torn fabric. If the cloth has split and the tubes are straight, pause until you know whether you are writing to the seller. The aluminium sun lounger comparison lists the next bed’s item weight. Moving from 4.5 kg to 9.2 kg is mass you can feel at the door.