Post/pole sticking up obstructing driveway...

hieveryone

Stooby2 wrote: »

I think you might have issues with BT in that there is an inspection cover for a BT box in the pavement next to the jointing post. They are not very strong and easily damaged. BT probably won't want you driving over it and at present, the post is preventing that.

Ah right, yes I see what you mean.

Not that I could drive over it anyway as it isn't a dropped kerb - but removing the post *would* allow me to reverse up the dropped bit of the kerb and 'swing' a car round to be facing the pavement straight on, if that makes sense. At the moment if I tried that, I'd probably end up blocked in.

Santa comes up to my estate on a HUGE sleigh, wonder if I could bung him a few quid and he could stop outside my house for a moment :rotfl:

Rovver125

Stooby2 wrote: »

I think you might have issues with BT in that there is an inspection cover for a BT box in the pavement next to the jointing post. They are not very strong and easily damaged. BT probably won't want you driving over it and at present, the post is preventing that.

Those footway boxes that BT use are rated to a certain weight anyway, certainly strong enough for a car. I'm sure it's 4 or 5 ton but can't say for definite.

OP as others have said, BT will have at some point had permission and possible paid a fee to install their apparatus on someones property. If it is no longer in use they may be happy for you to remove it yourself, although they may want it back.

I'd just make an enquiry with them. If you knock it down and say it was someone else, with no drop kerb adjacent to that pole they may still try and blame you!

Stooby2

Well the one over the road to me is regularly driven on by the school mums mounting the kerb (yes, they're that bad) and has to be replaced at least once a year. I don't think a Vauxhall Zafira weighs 4 or 5 ton!

pka_2

Rovver125 wrote: »

Those footway boxes that BT use are rated to a certain weight anyway, certainly strong enough for a car. I'm sure it's 4 or 5 ton but can't say for definite.

BT covers are class B125 covers which means they are test loaded to 12.5T. According to the BS, typical uses for this class of cover are: car parks, domestic driveways, areas with occasional vehicle access. Though I've never seen one spec'd in a car park, its usually a higher class put in there, but I digress, they are fine for driveway use!

Rovver125

pka wrote: »

BT covers are class B125 covers which means they are test loaded to 12.5T. According to the BS, typical uses for this class of cover are: car parks, domestic driveways, areas with occasional vehicle access. Though I've never seen one spec'd in a car park, its usually a higher class put in there, but I digress, they are fine for driveway use!

I was sure that was the case. Think I'm a bit out with the weight though! Assuming of course that you are right! :D

Think ductile iron covers will always be used in car parks for the guarantee it won't fail. Footways are usually used by much less regular traffic and the way the footway boxes are laid parralel to the kerbline like that should mean a vehicle passing to a driveway is exerting it's load on the strongest structural direction.

School run mums and anyone else bumping the kerb really shouldn't be parking like that anyway should they!

Stooby2

School run mums and anyone else bumping the kerb really shouldn't be parking like that anyway should they

No, and they shouldn't try to turn round in my driveway and knock one of the brick pillars at the end of my garden wall over either!