Hi,
looking at getting a nice stainless steel street number for our home...
Any places to go in sydney that sell them??
Browse Forums General Discussion Re: street numbers 2Apr 05, 2012 1:52 pm Some people apparently have nothing better to do than comment on other people's sigs. Re: street numbers 6Apr 07, 2012 4:49 pm ...geez. So, newlyweds, apparently your stainless steel numbers will result in you losing your house, money and end up going to jail for shooting a cop. (p.s. I like the stainless steel numbers. It's got my vote). Re: street numbers 9Apr 07, 2012 6:30 pm Door or verbal!!!!! Settlement 1/2/12 New Shed 23/3/12 Slab poured 27/3/12 Frame complete 4/5/12 Roof complete 1/6/12 LOCKUP 29/6/12 Our new build blog http://kareenhillsownerbuild.blogspot.com/ Re: street numbers 10Apr 07, 2012 8:16 pm We have a s/s numbers that are lit up so hopefully no mistaken identity police raids (FYI - most houses do not have illuminated numbers, stainless or otherwise). I was a postie for 12 years (left the force 12 months ago). I rode a push bike (not a Honda) & if there were non-compliant letterboxes on my round, I still usually delivered their mail. Quite frankly, providing it was above knee height & below shoulder height, we really didn't care. Its the snappy, spring-loaded flaps on some letterboxes that need to be banned. The number of times I've lost the skin on my fingers because of them! However, if a letterbox was severely non-compliant ie. a milk crate or cardboard box, they were issued with a please fix notice (desired specs included). After 3 requests, if said "letterbox" was not fixed, mail was either held at the local D.C. for collection, or was more often the case, just thrown onto their front porch. But, seriously, non-compliant letterboxes are the least of a postie's worries. Tools that reverse out of their property without looking are a much, much bigger concern. "Whoever says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain!" street numbers 12Apr 08, 2012 5:50 pm We got a stainless steel number, my brother cuts steel for a living, it's super shiny and mounted above one of our facade lights, plus we have a street light out the front. my new build thread- Ben Trager https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=89826 my switch build thread (2011) https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=36569 street numbers 13Apr 08, 2012 7:54 pm I have noticed in my new street (with all new houses/vacant blocks) most of my neighbours are going for stainless steel numbers. They're easier to see on dark backgrounds, so having them on the front limestone wall, like most in the street would make it difficult to see (and they are hard to see, even in the middle of the day) I still plan to get at least one s/s number.... On my dark render on the actual house. Might have to go with something else for the letter box. Re: street numbers 14Apr 09, 2012 8:20 am daveandally1 Oh dear, kez, did a car ever hit you?? Yep, 3 times in fact. First time, a car came out of a one-way street the wrong way & hit me. Second time was when someone reversed out of their driveway. I was dinging my bell madly as I tried to get out of their way, but they just kept on coming ... . Third time, an old guy opened his car door just as I was passing him. I was going pretty fast 'cause I was going down a hill - now that one hurt!!! My back has never quite been the same since. Funnily enough, someone from radio 3AW must have seen it happen (their old office on Bank St, South Melbourne was only a short distance away) & started talking on air about how they'de just seen their postie get cleaned up by a car. My nanosecond of fame! Yay me. A few years ago, being a Postie came got rated as one of the most dangerous jobs you can do. Nearly all the posties I worked with have been hit by a car at least once. You do your best to anticipate potential accidents & most of the time this works, but the odds are sort of stacked against you with so many bad drivers on the loose ... "Whoever says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain!" Re: street numbers 15Apr 09, 2012 3:03 pm Police raiding houses carry weapons but not torches?? I would think not! Furthermore very unlikely a raid would be carried out without extensive planning ahead in the days leading up. I am sure the cop's will know what house they're after. I personally have trouble seeing any house number at night be it stainless steel or otherwise unless the street light is right on it. I am opting for stainless steel. street numbers 16Apr 09, 2012 4:02 pm We have stainless steel numbers on a light wall. And my letterbox slot is probably less than a metre from the ground. Does our postie care? No, still delivers our bills just the same. Can our house number be determined easily enough? Absolutely, either by looking at the house number on the front of the house which is 40cm high, or by adding two or subtracting two from the house numbers either side to work out my house number. I speak from experience when I tell you that the average emergency service person is pretty good at working out house numbers etc. Relying on an example from the US of police getting the house number wrong is fairly unimpressive to say the least. If this was a problem so prevalent in this country to warrant the alarm raised by Ian, then a better example would be readily obtainable. And there does not seem to be much data or evidence to support the doom and gloom, the world will end with posties being the countries largest collective of landlords scenario that you predicate there Ian. If this was such a problem, there would be legislation dictating standards etc. HD Re: street numbers 17Apr 09, 2012 8:27 pm Are overly lengthy diatribes the in-thing nowadays for some reason... All that grief over potentially not being able to see someone's house number at night when there is such a simple solution - get a reflective number painted onto the gutter next to the drive way. Problem solved. How a house number translates into an anecdotal rage about non-compliant letterboxes is beyond me. Just my $0.02. Some people apparently have nothing better to do than comment on other people's sigs. Re: street numbers 18Apr 10, 2012 1:17 am You got off lightly Kezza. Our female postie lady is dead! She was riding a Honda 110 cc Postie M/Bike, and waiting to turn right across 2 lanes on Beaufort Street into a side street. She had indicator on and brake light also. Sadly a lady driver who was busy texting at the time - ran into the rear of her - and this threw her and the postie bike across the white line into the path of an oncoming shire truck... Least it was quick, if not exactly a painless way to go. She was just a young one too - bout 21 or so - and quite the looker as well! Wasn't all that long ago either! (Within the last 12 months or so).. Being a postie mightn't be all that its cracked up to be. I'd want danger money! Cheers! street numbers 19Apr 10, 2012 6:49 am Ian Moone You got off lightly Kezza. Our female postie lady is dead! She was riding a Honda 110 cc Postie M/Bike, and waiting to turn right across 2 lanes on Beaufort Street into a side street. She had indicator on and brake light also. Sadly a lady driver who was busy texting at the time - ran into the rear of her - and this threw her and the postie bike across the white line into the path of an oncoming shire truck... Least it was quick, if not exactly a painless way to go. She was just a young one too - bout 21 or so - and quite the looker as well! Wasn't all that long ago either! (Within the last 12 months or so).. Being a postie mightn't be all that its cracked up to be. I'd want danger money! Cheers! And not in any way connected to the colour of the motorists house number nor is the connection to what height her letterbox slot is from ground level immediately obvious. HD Re: street numbers 20Apr 10, 2012 11:49 am cmhamilton Are overly lengthy diatribes the in-thing nowadays for some reason... I hear you Ray153 and do you also find this story macabre? Some poor girl has died yet we have a story full of smilies saying she had a horrible and painful death but she was a good looking sort?? I wonder about Ian’s age and is he from the 70’s era when people used to pass around funny cigarettes? By the way I have a stainless steel mailbox on a piece of CB Riversand slat fencing and used a black number so it would stand out. And here is the solution to all of Ian’s problems. This is a Solar-powered lighted address sign and operates from dusk to dawn so when that pesky SWAT team or Dog the bounty hunter arrives at Ian’s house at 2am they’ll be straight through the door no muckin’ around. 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