Discuss Can someone tell me what this is please in the DIY Electrical Advice area at ElectriciansForums.net
Thanks - so it could be for the street lights. There's nothing else in the street (like a speed camera as you say) other than the street lights that I can see requiring this. The reason I ask is I want to know the potential to open up the garden with a wider drive but with this in the way that could be a problem. I'm in Northern Ireland if that makes any difference.Looks like a power supply feed pillar. Maybe to feed lighting or a speed camera or something? Or maybe a comms cabinet, but looks a bit small for that.
Yeah probably in the thousands.It probably wouldn't be cheap to move it, but people often get streetlamps moved for driveway widening projects. Last one I heard if was around £900, but that was a while ago.
Other members will probably have a more accurate idea of what it is.
Like my service pole a few years ago that was declared rotten and was going to be resited for free - until someone realised in was in the way of a building project, when it suddenly became a £3500 job.Yeah probably in the thousands.
Nice one - was yours for street lighting also?Like my service pole a few years ago that was declared rotten and was going to be resited for free - until someone realised in was in the way of a building project, when it suddenly became a £3500 job.
It could easily be worked around for sure - will maybe ask about it when we go view the house, however I believe the property is empty so the estate agent will know next to nothing!Is it really going to be a problem?
Stick some reflectors to it so you can see it.
Mostly these street boxes are placed at the corner between two properties…. But I have seen actual lampposts sited in front of houses where they could put a driveway in if it wasn’t for the pole.
Lampposts are measured between to give the right amount of lux levels…. So sometimes end up in not very clever positions.
Round here, when the council fitted LED replacement street lights, they moved all the existing poles to get the right lux rather than just changing the heads… of course, that meant digging up the street and pavement to rewire inbetween… and for some reason, one or two of them are still old SON lamps… on a new pole!!?
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