DIY road markings!
ARWadsworth
here.
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or
http://preview.tinyurl.com/3crcxdf
across the front of the "diveway".
Two |------| shaped lines, parallel to each other.
So I asked "Nasser, did you paint those?"
He replied that the council had done it.
Now can anyone else ever recollect the council using white gloss paint for
road marking?
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Adam
Nightjar
I did once mark a driveway with a white line with bars at each end,
because of problems with people parking across it. I used line marking
spray paint and it worked very well. When the Council resurfaced the
road, their contractors dutifully replaced the line with hot laid
marking paint. It is now a permanent feature of the road.
Colin Bignell
GB
> I did once mark a driveway with a white line with bars at each end,
> because of problems with people parking across it. I used line marking
> spray paint and it worked very well.
You made up a stencil?
jgharston
> Two |------| shaped lines, parallel to each other.
> So I asked "Nasser, did you paint those?"
> He replied that the council had done it.
> Now can anyone else ever recollect the council using white
> gloss paint for road marking?
It's called a "white H" and is a non-regulatory advisory marking.
It is required to be done in highway marking compound, not
decorator's paint, but I wouldn't put it past some cost-cutter at
the council to try it.
JGH
ARWadsworth
Any requirement to put two "white H" lines down?
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Adam
Robin
> Any requirement to put two "white H" lines down?
I knew someone who got one (and it was only one). I've never seen or
heard of a double H. Perhaps it was a DIY job with the thought "double
yellow lines are tougher than single so...."
As JGH said, councils can take action against those parking by dropped
kerbs whether or not there is a marking. See eg
http://www.barnsley.gov.uk/parking-at-drop-kerbs
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Robin
PM may be sent to rbw0{at}hotmail{dot}com
Nightjar
I had a simple line marking machine for marking out the lines on my
factory car parking areas and used that.
Colin Bignell
Andrew Gabriel
"Nightjar <\"cpb\"@" <"insertmysurnamehere> writes:
>
> I did once mark a driveway with a white line with bars at each end,
> because of problems with people parking across it. I used line marking
> spray paint and it worked very well. When the Council resurfaced the
> road, their contractors dutifully replaced the line with hot laid
> marking paint. It is now a permanent feature of the road.
Mine is the other way. There was an H when I moved in, but all the
road markings were almost invisible. Came home one day to find they'd
all been redone, except my H, which is now completely worn off. As yet,
no one has parked across it though.
Actually they've all just been repainted for a second time since my
H vanished, together with multi-coloured road finishings, which looked
quite good for the 3 days before a utility came and dug it all up,
and just used black tarmac to repair.
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Andrew Gabriel
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ARWadsworth
>> Any requirement to put two "white H" lines down?
>
> I knew someone who got one (and it was only one). I've never seen or
> heard of a double H. Perhaps it was a DIY job with the thought
> "double yellow lines are tougher than single so...."
The tin of paint and wet brush was "hidden" behind a sack of potatoes.
I could smell gloss paint and I could see gloss paint in the road. I will
take a photo later to show the double lines but I had left my camera on my
bedside cabinet and could not take a photo today.
> As JGH said, councils can take action against those parking by dropped
> kerbs whether or not there is a marking. See eg
> http://www.barnsley.gov.uk/parking-at-drop-kerbs
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Adam
Terry Casey
0100
Robin <s...@sig.sep> wrote:
>
> >
> > Any requirement to put two "white H" lines down?
>
> I knew someone who got one (and it was only one). I've never seen or
> heard of a double H. Perhaps it was a DIY job with the thought "double
> yellow lines are tougher than single so...."
>
> As JGH said, councils can take action against those parking by dropped
> kerbs whether or not there is a marking. See eg
> http://www.barnsley.gov.uk/parking-at-drop-kerbs
Interesting ...
Round here it is an offence (obstruction) to park across a dropped kerb unless
it leads to parking on your own property.
Thus we have soome roads with yellow lines to prevent commuter parking but the
lines stop either side of a dropped kerb. This allows a householder to have one
off-road parking space in front of their house (terraced houses - no garages)
and park a second vehicle on the public highway - but nobody else can park
there without their permission.
Continuous yellow lines are used where no on-road parking is permitted.
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Terry
The Other Mike
>>
>> Any requirement to put two "white H" lines down?
>
>I knew someone who got one (and it was only one). I've never seen or
>heard of a double H. Perhaps it was a DIY job with the thought "double
>yellow lines are tougher than single so...."
>
>As JGH said, councils can take action against those parking by dropped
>kerbs whether or not there is a marking. See eg
>http://www.barnsley.gov.uk/parking-at-drop-kerbs
What action do they take against painting on the public highway?
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geoff
<rootpa...@somewhereorother.com> writes
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geoff
m...@privacy.net
jgharston <j...@arcade.demon.co.uk> wrote:
Our lovcal high street has recently come under the council for parking. The
street is cobbled, and the markings rapidly fail. They've been round recently
with a can of the stuff they mark potholes with and re done the parking bays
with it, so they can get more tickets.
They are also re-laying the cobbles, but the yellow lines and parking bays
are being marked with the appropriate colour of block paving. previously
barred as it is a conservation area.
What a difference it has made for the council to get parking ticket revenue.
(not a bad thing, the way it was (not) administered before!)
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B Thumbs
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Nightjar
is in accordance with the Traffic Signs Regulations and General
Directions and does not require a traffic order (which yellow lines, for
example, do) nobody is likely to either notice or bother.
There was a case a good many years ago where a woman, who had been
campaigning for a SLOW sign on the road near a school painted one
herself. She did it according to the TSRGR specification and the
newspaper reported the Police raction as being that it is not illegal to
paint road signs on the road.
Colin Bignell
Grimly Curmudgeon
drugs began to take hold. I remember geoff <tr...@uk-diy.org> saying
something like:
>>What action do they take against painting on the public highway?
>>
>>
>5 years in the Louvre
For using Windows Paint?
marpate1
wrote:
><snip> I had left my camera on my bedside cabinet</snip>
>
> Adam
I think that this intrigues me more than the gloss paint on the
road ;)
ARWadsworth
Easy, and not what you think. The earth pin for the charger has snapped off
in that socket and it is the only socket I can now use in the house to
recharge the camera.
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Adam
Clive George
> Easy, and not what you think. The earth pin for the charger has snapped off
> in that socket and it is the only socket I can now use in the house to
> recharge the camera.
What does that say about the state of the electrics in an electrician's
house :-)
ARWadsworth
It says that "Made in China" chargers are shit.
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Adam
Andy Champ
A few travel chargers stacked up should let you move it around. Make it
two pin, and back again.
Can you really not get another one?
Andy
Bob Eager
I've just had another PSU case disintegrate. I'm doing same as last
time...getting an empty PSU case and re-housing it.
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ARWadsworth
Sure, but there is no rush and I would want it to be a genuine piece of
crap, not a fleabay copy of a piece of crap. As I have 8 double sockets in
the bedroom I am not desperate for the socket space.
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Adam
The Medway Handyman
Was that the type using liquid paint of an aerosol?
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Dave - The Medway Handyman www.medwayhandyman.co.uk