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TWO POST ALUMINIUM SIGN
HI ALL I HAVE BEEN ASKED TO QUOTE FOR A TWO POST POLE SIGN THAT HAS TO BE SUNK IN THE GROUND (TARMAC) WITH I THINK A ALUMINIUM SIGN FACE I CAN NOT FIND A SUPPLIER AND I NEED TO KNOW IF ANYBODY CAN HELP, ANY ADVICE WOULD BE A HELP BECAUSE I HAVE NEVER DONE THIS KIND OF SIGN BEFORE .
THANKS MARK / STRIPES -
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Mark, I would be very careful with this one – there are many suppliers who will be willing to sell you what you need (Ashby, Graphex, SMP etc) but who is responsible for the advertisement consent, planning consent and foundation design?
If you were to post a few more details then I and others would be able to offer some more specific advice that will give you the chance to put a good profitable price in for the job
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HI IT IS FOR A PRE-SHOOL TO BE FIXED IN SIDE THIER PREMISES ABOUT 1800MM X 600 MM , IDONT KNOW WHAT MORE INFO YOU WIULD NEED, DO YOU THINK WE WOULD HAVE TO HAVE PLANINING PERMISION, AS IT IS ONLY THE NAME OF THE PRE SCHOLL ON THE SIGN?
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The school bursar can take responsibility for the (possible) requirement for advertisement consent (planning consent probably won’t be needed)and I would mention that in your quote.
With regards to the actual specification I would suggest that you use Monoframe (you can see the details on the Spandex website) and Graphex – http://www.graphex.co.uk – or Ashby will be able to quote for the manufacture and supply.
As a general rule of thumb a third of the length of the post above the ground should be below the ground to ensure stability for wind loadings etc.
Hope this helps
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We have just done a similar sign for a church, we bought in what we needed from Ashby and yes the client had to get planning permission for it even though it was on there own grounds, as it was being cemented in … its classed as a permanent fixture I think? If you get your customer to call the local council planning dept just to double check that would be the best bet. We supply clients with designs/layouts/sizes/specs and they take it from there getting planning permission.
Carrie 😀
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We’ve done dozens of signs for schools… all alluminium and all on two steel posts 😀 . I’m not sure about a pre-school, but as most schools are linked to the local council, planning permission never seems to be a problem.
We always ask if the school has a logo or a particular colour in the uniform which we try and incorporate in to the sign just to link the two together
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Done one of these recently also on clients land.
They checked with local planning officer & the planning dept couldn’t even determine if they needed to apply for planning, neither could they work out there own planning info.
Decided to buy the ally sheet / channel etc and fabricate myself….quite easy really.
Tim.
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