Re: How to stop people parking in front of your garage?
 

put cones out?

Re: How to stop people parking in front of your garage?
 

Throw a brick through their window, as soon as the alarm goes off, they will soon come running.

Seriously, give it a good shake and see if you can trigger an alarm.


As for phoning the council. waste of a phone call. I regularly phone mine to try to establish why they have not emptied my bins. Usually they will start with the excuse, your bin was not out on time etc. you then point out they have not emptied anyone's bin and they go check. usually it is a vehicle blocking access.

My current bug bear is this prat parking


http://www.twsoft.co.uk/parking.jpg

And another of his is
http://www.twsoft.co.uk/parking2.jpg

Re: How to stop people parking in front of your garage?
 

Phoning the highways department has worked for me in the past quite weel on two ocasions when I've complained about cars that have blocked emergency access. I guess it's different councils having different priorities, but mine too is carp when it come to emptying bins and complaints about that.

That parking in the first pic is jus ridiculous!

Re: How to stop people parking in front of your garage?
 

gotta agree with Tim phoning the council was a complete waste of time for me when cars parked right outside my garage door. i left notes asking them not to do it i sounded my horn, banged on doors. all the council said was keep a diary!!.

gotta go with setting off their alarm i know its not right or clever but it works

Re: How to stop people parking in front of your garage?
 

Yeah......got to agree with you both if your council are not doing anything........it's not exactly criminal damage is it, so go for it and watch them come running!

Re: How to stop people parking in front of your garage?
 

Is there proper signage on the garage door? And/or any kind of line on the road? If so, start by putting cones out and setting off alarms... keep a diary and put a list of the dates etc under the wiper of any regular offenders....

Re: How to stop people parking in front of your garage?
 

Claymore Mines

Re: How to stop people parking in front of your garage?
 

2 "no parking" signs.


http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/8720/87001702.jpg

:(

Re: How to stop people parking in front of your garage?
 

A 'Garage in constant use' sign at least gives them fair warning... and then a polite note on the windshield.

If that fails, you need that tank to drive over it. Yes.

I used to have people parking in my designated spot for the flat I used to live in. I'd double park next to them (which would only make their life difficult, not any of the other spaces in the lot, before anyone asks) and put a note advising them that the number written on the space is not just for fun, it means it belongs to a certain flat. Nobody ever did it twice.

We used to have huge problems at a former workplace as it was in a business park... each unit had a parking lot around it, but the unit across from ours was an orthodontists so we'd have lots of haughty parents taking Junior to have his teeth bent the right way who would park in our spaces as it was nearer the front door as opposed to the ortho place's ones at the back.

Now, as it's a business park (Cardiff Business Park, J30 M4), EVERYONE drove as there was no bus service - in fact, I regularly gave two if not four people lift to and from work such was the remoteness. Hence, we used every space in our lot and then some, with regular car musical chairs to let people out.

So if one of these parents took a space, it left us with big problems, and if we spotted one we had to run out and tell them they couldn't park there. It fell to me one day and I jogged up to the woman as she was leaving the car and politely asked if she could move it to the ortho lot as this was our lot and it was full and hence we needed every space. She told me she didn't care what I was saying and without breaking stride marched with her kid into the clinic.

I told my bosses and they gave me the keys to the pool car and told me to block her in. We then watched and waited for her return. Needless to say, she burst into reception f'ing and blinding about how we had no right to detain her like this and 'that car had better be moved or I'll let the tires down' (oh yes, brilliant, that'll really expedite your departure, daft moo) and we told her it was our private property, we can park our cars however we like.

:D

Re: How to stop people parking in front of your garage?
 

Thats what i do, where i keep my bike people keep blocking the access, so put notices up, followed by notes and now cones-seems to work :cool: