Ideas to protect my front grass

Hi All

I've got a 4ft wide approx strip of grass in front of my house which cars ( normally tradesmen ) occassionally park on !!

I want to put something around the kerbside to stop this. I've seen white stones in other places but I would rather something more modern/contemporary like chrome bollards/solar lamps. Any ideas. I dont really want to spend a fortune.
Any advice welcome, thanks

 

I would'nt spend a fortune, ask the council if they can do anything it is after all their property. Nice solar lamps will probably go missing!!

 

Its not your grass, you could ask the council though.
Mate has it, council put in short fence posts (about 8 inches above the grass showing) they did the whole street, they look naff.

 

I have the same problem!...I stood old sand bags on my verge in an attempt to let the grass regrow but'White Van Pr-t'just drives over them. The new ones each have a hand full of clout nails inside!
I toyed with the idea of pushing a single stem branch into the grass and heaping soil around the base to make it appear a sapling was planted.
Let's wait and see if the nails sort the problem first

 

We get the same problem, I agree the councils approach of short posts looks awful and means its a pain to cut the grass.
If its an offence to damage the verges, as it is around here, then the drivers should be summonsed, and given a fixed penalty.
But no one bothers.

 

And here they are!... ready and primed!!

 

Stingers are good make sure you anchor them well :D

 

I sympathise with the vehicles being parked on the grass, but i dont think nails are the answer.
Suppose its a repair man visiting you, he pulls up runs over it and when he leaves finds out he has a puncture, or worse, drives down the road, crashes because he has a puncture?

I can see why they park on the grass, the road is narrow. (you can see the other side's kerb)

If it happens a lot (I suspect it does after looking closely at the pic) ask the council to tarmac it, but expalin why.

Put the shoe on the other foot, you visit some where, and park as they did, run over an "innocent looking bag" and get a punture, and its raining.

Or suppose a child trips and falls onto the bag......

They are only doing it because of the narrow road.
At the end of the day its not your grass, and you could end up in court.

 

I may be out on a limb here but how do you feel about all commercial vehicles being banned from parking over night, on roads, in residental areas.
We have loads of vans and tipper trucks littering the roads and grass areas at nights and weekends.
The companies these people work for should not allow the vehicle to be taken home unless it can be parked off road, in my opinion, and then the vehice should only be of a certain size.

We even get the odd foreign artic parked up causing chaos.

 

The intelligent van drivers park with two wheels on the WIDE pavements and straddle the grass.
Perhaps I will ask for it to be tarmaced over...good idea!

 

Still an offence though Pal :D

 

Sounds like you have the same problem as us Pete they have six vehicles one side of us they run 2 buinesses and 3to4 vehicles the other side plus vehicles across the way,should ban the lot of them.

 

It sure is a worsening problem. I can't say much cos i park my car outside my house (in a layby) but i do have a garage. Can't get in the garage though cos of all the other things! Will really try to get this cleared this year :rolleyes:

When we moved into this road 10 years ago there weren't too many cars. Now its chocker. And we have a couple of company cars, vans too.

One couple extended their house, then fenced off the front garden (it's mainly open plan here) then park both private 4 x 4 & company van outside on the road. Another neighbour has had their kerb dropped but no drive put in. They just park in front of the dropped kerb. Seems both of these could use their fronts for parking. They have no back entrance but i know their back gardens are alot bigger than ours so surely they could lose the front ones.

It just makes it look a mess i think.

Now i shall go and 'switch' myself & get that garage cleared. :D

cheers

 

how about getting in touch with a washing machine repair centre and asking for some old washing machine drums, preferably with the spindle still in-situ.

push the spindle into the ground as an anchor, then fill with soil and plants?

They keep the shiney appearance 'cos they are made of stainless steel, they are big enough to stop people from driving into them, they are heavy enough when full to deter people from stealing them but are easiy enough to replace should they go walk about and they look different to what everyone else has.

I had a few in the garden as planters and it usually took a while for people to realise what they were. The only problem I encountered is that they can bake the roots of plants due to them absorbing heat, but on the plus side they'll never get water logged with all the holes in them!

They also make a good bbq. fill with rubble, top with sand upto about 3 inches below the rim. This is where the charcoal goes. Then put a grill rack on top. The holes help the bbq get going by allowing enough air to the coals.

 

or ask a tree surgoen to let you have a few trunks cut into foot long pieces and lay they either length ways or on end around the area you want protecting. most drivers will park elsewhere rather than getting out to move a lump of tree.

If you decide to go down the 'rocks painted white' route, before you buy any, have a look round in local skips at houses with extensions going up. sometimes they will be using mini-diggers that will pull rocks out and they maybe happy for you to take them. remember to ask before you take them though, they are still the property of the home owner despite being in a skip!