Roman numeral house numbers
Discussion
House names used to annoy the hell out of me trying to find one in the dark down a windy country lane when visiting clients, but just imagine an ambulwans crew trying to locate somebody having a heart attack in a whole road of Dunromins, Petit Masions, Belle Views and Kev's Gaffs or some poor sap with a Transit load of parcels to deliver standing in the pouring rain trying to work out what the fkuck XXVIII means.
An Arabic numeral clearly visible from the road is everything you do need and nothing you don't.
An Arabic numeral clearly visible from the road is everything you do need and nothing you don't.
The older houses around here don't have numbers - just names.
It causes confusion for taxi drivers and deliveries for starters. Roman Numerals aren't going to be much better for many people.
If you're going to do it though, I like the suggestion of a Quattro sign - especially if you have one on the driveway.
It causes confusion for taxi drivers and deliveries for starters. Roman Numerals aren't going to be much better for many people.
If you're going to do it though, I like the suggestion of a Quattro sign - especially if you have one on the driveway.
Tahiti said:
The older houses around here don't have numbers - just names.
It causes confusion for taxi drivers and deliveries for starters. Roman Numerals aren't going to be much better for many people.
If you're going to do it though, I like the suggestion of a Quattro sign - especially if you have one on the driveway.
People will just wonder why you have a tacky corporate logo on your house.It causes confusion for taxi drivers and deliveries for starters. Roman Numerals aren't going to be much better for many people.
If you're going to do it though, I like the suggestion of a Quattro sign - especially if you have one on the driveway.
Roman numerals could look nice if done artistically, as part of a stained glass window perhaps, but you would still need to have a proper door number.
And definitely don't do it if you live at number 2 unless you want to start receiving number 11's post.
Reminds me of one pretentious w
kstain back when i was delivering chinese, i spent 10 minutes driving around a council estate looking for a dunedin cottage, but it was just all terraces and flats, they never left a phone nuber on the ticket so i ended up taking it back to base where they had the number on the notepad. I couldn't help myself but to call the guy a tt down the phone when he said "It should be fairly obvious we have an engraved plaque next to the door, we the blue door nestled in between 36 and 40." When they called back to complain about me to my boss everyone in the shop was pissing themselves laughing when he just shouted " you barred, you go hungry" and put the phone down.
The fake stone cladding in the middle of a used to be white harled, now grey, scottish special council terrace scheme should have been a giveaway.
kstain back when i was delivering chinese, i spent 10 minutes driving around a council estate looking for a dunedin cottage, but it was just all terraces and flats, they never left a phone nuber on the ticket so i ended up taking it back to base where they had the number on the notepad. I couldn't help myself but to call the guy a tt down the phone when he said "It should be fairly obvious we have an engraved plaque next to the door, we the blue door nestled in between 36 and 40." When they called back to complain about me to my boss everyone in the shop was pissing themselves laughing when he just shouted " you barred, you go hungry" and put the phone down.The fake stone cladding in the middle of a used to be white harled, now grey, scottish special council terrace scheme should have been a giveaway.
OldGermanHeaps said:
Reminds me of one pretentious wkstain back when i was delivering chinese, i spent 10 minutes driving around a council estate looking for a dunedin cottage, but it was just all terraces and flats, they never left a phone nuber on the ticket so i ended up taking it back to base where they had the number on the notepad. I couldn't help myself but to call the guy a tt down the phone when he said "It should be fairly obvious we have an engraved plaque next to the door, we the blue door nestled in between 36 and 40." When they called back to complain about me to my boss everyone in the shop was pissing themselves laughing when he just shouted " you barred, you go hungry" and put the phone down.
The fake stone cladding in the middle of a used to be white harled, now grey, scottish special council terrace scheme should have been a giveaway.
I had a colleague like this, lived in pleasant semidetached cottage set back from the road, long since developed so had a name and a number. It was a long road, annoyingly he wouldn't give you a clue as to the number, instead a sort of theatrical flounce "everyone just knows it as xxxx"kstain back when i was delivering chinese, i spent 10 minutes driving around a council estate looking for a dunedin cottage, but it was just all terraces and flats, they never left a phone nuber on the ticket so i ended up taking it back to base where they had the number on the notepad. I couldn't help myself but to call the guy a tt down the phone when he said "It should be fairly obvious we have an engraved plaque next to the door, we the blue door nestled in between 36 and 40." When they called back to complain about me to my boss everyone in the shop was pissing themselves laughing when he just shouted " you barred, you go hungry" and put the phone down.The fake stone cladding in the middle of a used to be white harled, now grey, scottish special council terrace scheme should have been a giveaway.
Our current house had a name from the previous owners, another name recognised by the LRO and a number. It's a long road with a long drive so just stuck a number at the end, much easier all round.
Edited by PositronicRay on Sunday 25th February 09:00
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keirik said:
Our place has a name and a number. But the name came first.
But the whole road is screwed as the numbers go 1,5,7,8,15,17,
I think someone was taking the piss
Where I used to live, the numbers on my side of the road were, in order: 1, 2, 20, 19, [House name]. The other side were all names.But the whole road is screwed as the numbers go 1,5,7,8,15,17,
I think someone was taking the piss
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