[Closed] Cones for workmen

Tell your gas fitter / other tradesmen that street parking is at a premium and, if they want to park outside for their convenience, they better drag their arses out of bed earlier and show up early doors?

To be fair, they tried today but they had a fair old trip and got caught up in traffic.

As you know - you've got no right to the street. Undertaking the renovations doesn't give you that right either - the cones don't help you really. If there was a genuine stop on parking they'd be backed up by notices from the council saying between which dates and times the parking is suspended - no notice = no point in you using the cones.

Best strategy is to either park you own car where you'd want the trades-folk to be able to park and move it when they arrive or note when your nemesis parks each morning and tell your chaps to make sure they arrive earlier.

but I may end up sunburnt.

For you're your own health and for the sake of local property prices I think its better if you just put some clothes on.

Get up at 4 am and leave a huge towel in ze space.

I guess my question is really whether it's worth appealing to people's sense of goodwill.

Cones are fairly common in the village and parking is at a premium. There's an ongoing petition for residents parking due to the large number of tourists, but that in itself presents problems.

I personally wouldn't move cones as I'd assume that there's a reason for them being there. Perhaps I'm just soft.

Key his car and place one cone on his roof, other on the bonnet. He will get the message and won't park there tomorrow.

For you're your own health and for the sake of local property prices I think its better if you just put some clothes on.

Having said that, I could probably guarantee several spaces free if I was au naturel.

I kept an eye on the cones but - damn me - after making a coffee I saw that someone had moved them and parked up, ninja-like.

Get up at 4 am and leave a huge towel in ze space.

😆

f that was STW artisan coffe making thenthey would have had time to drop a skip and half fill it.

I guess an Aeropress probably counts....

How does STW suggest that I deal with this?

A note on the windscreen? "Hi, I appreciate this is a public road and you're perfectly entitled to park here, but I'm having work done and I'd really appreciate it if you left this space free until [date]. Thanks." Maybe a couple of notes on the cones / posters also, so it doesn't look like you're singling someone out.

Common sense would therefore dictate that if cones *are* out then there must be a valid reason?

Nah. Common sense and years of experience of encountering pretty-minded arseholes would suggest that you've got an inflated sense of entitlement, have got pissed off with people parking outside your house and decided to be a dick about it. If someone started laying unauthorised cones outside their house I'd probably park there intentionally to piss them off. (I'd then feel like a nob when I found out why and apologise.)

That's pretty much what I was thinking. If I can validate the reason for the cones being there then I'd hope that it would appeal to people's sense of...something.

You need a telehandler.
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Of course, where you park it is entirely another problem.

Fill the cones with concrete.. Makes them much harder to move..

That would probably reach from my front garden.

Where to then put the car is a different matter. Perhaps in my back garden where there's no driveable exit route.

I guess my question is really whether it's worth appealing to people's sense of goodwill.

Cones are fairly common in the village and parking is at a premium.

There you go then. "Oh look, another nobber with cones."

The best / only thing you can do in the first instance is let them know why there's an issue. They're not telepathic.

If they persist in parking there after you've asked nicely, you can always follow up with a passive-aggressive "park here at your own risk, but please be warned that workmen in vans will be in the area and trying to squeeze past." (-:

Fill the cones with concrete.. Makes them much harder to move..

I have two dogs so I could coat them with something pretty revolting.

Thanks all, I think a pleasant, explanatory note on the cones is the obvious first step.

I appreciate the parking issues in the village, I'm just narked at the gall of the woman that moved them.

Rather than be confrontational, I'd like a chance to explain and hope that she will understand my predicament.

Time will tell (tomorrow, in fact)

Fill the cones with Ice Cream and invite the local kids around.

Win.
Win.

I suppose the other way of looking at it, of course, is that it's not your problem. Warn the tradesmen of the parking issue and leave it to them to work out whether they want to turn up at 8am or not?

I have two dogs so I could coat them with something pretty revolting.

I don't know why you'd want to do that to them, but in my experience dogs are already well versed in coating themselves in something pretty revolting.

I'm just narked at the gall of the woman that moved them.

It's a public highway that you've no right to arbitrarily fence off as 'yours' using some (presumably stolen by the previous occupant) road cones. Without any other information it seems a pretty natural reaction to me.

However, if they carry on parking there after having been made aware of why, then we can file it under 'gall.'

Best strategy is to either park you own car where you'd want the trades-folk to be able to park and move it when they arrive

this is what i tell my customers to do, or do what some miserable havent got a life old git did to me,on a social housing estate, shower the car with bread, birds peck it and leave nasty dents in roof and bonnet, thats until other neighbours complain and a chap from the council comes round in his own car to investigate, and returns to find his car bird pecked, the chap got told in no uncertain terms desist or be rehomed/evicted.

oh and dont leave a set of laders on the road to block the space, as ive seen a woman carefully park directly over them, eg drove over them then parked up.

Move house to somewhere where parking isn't 'at a premium'

Of course, where you park it is entirely another problem.

Not a problem at all, with a telehandler you can make space by simply stacking nearby cars.

Move house to somewhere where parking isn't 'at a premium'

I genuinely don't think I'm being obtuse to ask that people respect my wish for a space for the short time that I'm renovating?

Pay the council to suspend the parking bay/s. Sorted.

Best strategy is to either park you own car where you'd want the trades-folk to be able to park and move it when they arrive

Best strategy is to either park you own car where you'd want the trades-folk to be able to park and move it when they arrive

I think this is the way forward. Even if I have to park a mile away, at least they're able to get the job done with a minimal amount of hassle.

Fill the cones with Ice Cream and invite the local kids around.

The OP wants parking order, not a restraining order.

Common sense would therefore dictate that if cones *are* out then there must be a valid reason?

Yes, but you don't have a valid reason and you have no authority to put the cones there. You say you inherited them from previous owner and that parking is at a premium. Maybe folk got fed up with previous owner putting them out when he felt like he had some special authority over controlling parking too 🙂

Perhaps 'a valid reason' isn't the correct phrase. Maybe just 'a reason'.

At no point have I said that I have the right to place cones. I know that I don't. I just misguidedly hoped that people would see them and understand that they were there to serve a particular purpose. 😀

I've got to be honest: even if the street was empty and a house had cones outside I'd move them and park there out of principle.

So it wouldn't occur to you that there may be a specific reason for them?

I'm clearly on my own here so I'll let sleeping dogs lie and just park/move my truck as necessary.

So it wouldn't occur to you that there may be a specific reason for them?

Without signage there's no [i]legitimate[/i] reason for them, it's just the home owner sticking cones outside their property. This could be for any number of "specific reasons" but the most likely one is rampant bellendery.

As others have said, why don't you ask nicely to see if the council will suspend free-for-all parking there for a little while?

Perchy that's just playing at it. For maximum malice forks through the windows for the lift. Stood against a wall on the rear bumper will also re-inforce the no parking if you're not local message.

As others have said, why don't you ask nicely to see if the council will suspend free-for-all parking there for a little while?

It's not on a solid basis - it'll be a couple of days this week. Maybe three days the week after and so on. I wouldn't want to restrict people outside of times that aren't relevant. So a council suspension is a bit over the top in my eyes, whereas a polite notice on a cone - I'd like to think - would appeal to people's better nature.

Anyway. All points taken on board so thank you. I'll use my truck as a placeholder where possible. Accept that people will think I'm an arse for putting cones out. Not bother wasting my ink on furnishing cones with a notice.

And no, I won't be moving house purely to gain off-road parking. That was a big decision in the house buying process and I'm sure I can live with this ultimately minor irritation for a short while 😀

I suppose the other way of looking at it, of course, is that it's not your problem. Warn the tradesmen of the parking issue and leave it to them to work out whether they want to turn up at 8am or not?

Totally agree with that. Just let them know the score and let them sort themselves out.

Not worth doing anything else to be honest.

(Ex plumber. Well used to parking issues. Just double park to unload, then move somewhere else)

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Open his car with a gadget off eBay then hide some frilly knickers and goose fat in his glovebox.

a polite notice on a cone - I'd like to think - would appeal to people's better nature.

I genuinely think that's your best approach. Well, your best opening gambit, anyway.

Steal a car and then burn it out in the space outside your house! Repeat as necessary for whenever tradesmen are visiting. Be sure to call the authorities in time to have it moved before your tradesmen arrive.

You don't need to steal a car, one is being provided.

That's less fun though Cougar 🙄

Simple.

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If they persist in parking there after you've asked nicely, you can always follow up with a passive-aggressive "park here at your own risk, but please be warned that workmen in vans will be in the area and trying to squeeze past." (-:

Passive-aggressive means not saying anything. http://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/counsellor-articles/what-is-passive-aggressive-behaviour

I would cover the cones in axle grease, that will be the last time they try to pick them up

Sprinkle the pavement with patches of broken toughened grass and put a burning sofa on your front lawn.

Encourage your neighbours to do the same - think of it as 'Britain in Gloom' - everyone mucking in and playing their part. Maybe get some trainers dangling from the telegraph wires and so on.

Tourists clogging up the parking will soon be a distant memory. Soon all the village shops and cafes will be boarded up and the jobs a good-un.