How much for a Lamppost?

[ridds]

Just got a bill for £100 for council worker call out to a lamppost I knocked down.

Any ideas as to the cost and installation of these beauties?

[Wacky Racer]

ridds said:

Just got a bill for £100 for council worker call out to a lamppost I knocked down. Any ideas as to the cost and installation of these beauties?

Would have thought you got off lightly there....


Couldn't you have hit a speed camera????.......

[crankedup]

That £100 will be just to 'cone off' danger area. Get onto your insurance they should cough up for 'street furniture' damage. Get the reciept for the £100 and submit that too.

[swilly]

A new lamp-post, painting it etc etc, installing could cost you £000's if the council charge you their full rates, simply cos they are a bunch of paper-work-twats

[schueymcfee]

ridds said:

Just got a bill for £100 for council worker call out to a lamppost I knocked down. Any ideas as to the cost and installation of these beauties?

When I knocked one down it cost £1200 for the actual post and £300 to install and wire it up.

I also asked for plaque with my name on it.

They removed it 6 months later.

[mcflurry]

local council wanted £1200 to paint a 1.5 meter yellow line to stop people parking on the entrance to my land

[pdV6]

schueymcfee said:

I also asked for plaque with my name on it. They removed it 6 months later.

The post or the plaque?

[ridds]

I know it was just the sweep up job. Just wondered what the main bill was likely to be.

Never got one for my last crash.

[shnozz]

schueymcfee said:

ridds said: Just got a bill for £100 for council worker call out to a lamppost I knocked down. Any ideas as to the cost and installation of these beauties? When I knocked one down it cost £1200 for the actual post and £300 to install and wire it up. I also asked for plaque with my name on it. They removed it 6 months later.

yep, this is around the right mark - £1500 to replace lamppost

[watkid]

ridds said:

Never got one for my last crash.

FFS, how many lamp posts have you knocked down

[Senake]

watkid said:

ridds said: Never got one for my last crash. FFS, how many lamp posts have you knocked down

I know someone who bent a lamp post down to the ground whilst trying to 'pull out' the dented in bodywork on their car which thay had crashed into a fence post.

Are these posts magnetic or what

[hi ya]

I knocked down a bollard with a arrow on it with a pretty light in the base.

No damafge to my car but ripped the platcic cone out of the ground and crached the light cover.

The bill: £612. OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!

I even asked for a breakdown of costs. Believe it or not the plastic cone was over £300.

Lesson learn't. Hit the car coming the opposite way; it's cheaper!!

[Zorro]

Too late maybe for you but I know someone who took out a large give way sign and went back the next day, picked it up and scrapped it, never got a bill from the council.

[schueymcfee]

pdV6 said:

schueymcfee said: I also asked for plaque with my name on it. They removed it 6 months later. The post or the plaque?

The post.

[julianhj]

Ridds, was this your 'off' in March? If so, did you get the car back on the road, or was it totalled?

[Mr Friendly]

Hehe, reminds me of a night when my brer avoided a car on his side of the road, (on a tight bend on a wet night) and ended up adjusting the angle of a lamppost
(The other car mustn't have check his rearview mirror tho cos he didn't stop)
A quick call to my dd and the cars wheels were straightened enough to drag it home!
The lamppost was replaced soon after!

Someone else that I know wrote his BMW off parking it around a tree. He didn't claim on his insurance as it would have cost him too much - and because the forestry commision had to remove the tree

[DanBoy]

I almost did a similar thing.

Massive understeer in a wibbly wobbly Golf, up a grass verge and just clipping the lamp post.

[zcacogp]

New lamp post in a certain London borough council I happen to know of costs less than £100 all in. That's the post, the lantern and the wiring.

Don't ask me how I know. If you are paying more than this, there is a FAT profit margin in there somewhere for someone.

Maybe your locals aren't making enough from their scameraship.


Oli.

[monkeyhanger]

There's not as much work in replacing a lamp-post as you think.

The costs spiral when the local Council monkeys do the work cos they're a bunch of lazy gits.

Me and 2 labourers have replaced 4 complete columns in a day and still been home before 3 pm

I reckon we could do 1 for £4 - 500 and still make a healthy profit for the firm.

Don't forget, with local council types you have 20 tea-breaks to pay for.....

[wedg1e]

There's a place up at Thornaby that makes lamp-posts: I've seen some of the monkeys who work there so the posts had better be CHEAP...

Ian