Mounting "bollard" lights in garden/lawn?

[R1 Indy]

I need to install some "bollard" style lights around a garden/lawn,

These type of things:

They are really designed for being bolted to a solid surface.


My thinking for easiest/most cost effective would be to embed a concrete block into the ground/earth? Then bolt directly to the block.

Can anyone think of a better way? Or any products out there that I have missed?

Cheers

[MX51ROD]

Use paving slabs then set them just below the surface and bring the soil over up to the bollards ,
use a masonry drill slow and gentle to make the holes for the fixing screws/bolts and a hole in the centre for the cable
Worked for me

[B17NNS]

Do they not do a spiked version for use in soft ground?

[AW10]

MX51ROD said:

Use paving slabs then set them just below the surface and bring the soil over up to the bollards ,
use a masonry drill slow and gentle to make the holes for the fixing screws/bolts and a hole in the centre for the cable
Worked for me

Previous owners did much the same with a post-mounted light in the midst of some shingle/gravel. The lamp and the fence panel behind it could easily be moved to get the dingy out of the back garden.

[Busa mav]

R1 Indy said:

I need to install some "bollard" style lights around a garden/lawn,

These type of things: [pic]


My thinking for easiest/most cost effective would be to embed a concrete block into the ground/earth? Then bolt directly to the block.

Exactly how I approached it and it worked really well.

Dig the hole out , lay some sand so you get the block level and away you go.

I then placed a paving slab directly on top of the block and drilled through it so it was easier to cut / strim the grass around it.

[alfa aficionado]

R1 Indy said:

My thinking for easiest/most cost effective would be to embed a concrete block into the ground/earth? Then bolt directly to the block.

This is exactly what the spark did at our new build.

[Jamster123]

check out our Facebook page "JRC property solutions", we do loads of this stuff.

Buy cheap slabs from B&Q, drill hole in middle for armours to come through, dig down ( if slab to be covered ) level slab, put in some post crete if needed, fix bollard to slab, we use metal box lids as small shims to get the level just perfect....unlevelled bollards look st

[Simpo Two]

It needs a sort of round Metpost...

[R1 Indy]

Great, will go for a slab.

Cheers