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Driveway Entrance Piers/Pillars cost

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  • 06-02-2018 10:39pm
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    bazbrady
    Registered Users Posts: 257 ✭✭


    Hi.Just looking at rough costs to build two entrance pillars.I will be hanging wooden gates off them eventually but need cost of different options so first option just plastered block finish.Second would be with a limestone or similar brick finish or even brick cladding.Any suggestions.?


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    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 38,915 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    What’s there at the moment?
    Is this an urban or rural set up?


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    bazbrady
    Registered Users Posts: 257 ✭✭bazbrady


    kceire wrote: »
    What’s there at the moment?
    Is this an urban or rural set up?

    So its a rural setting.Currently a post a four rail fence with two large posts at the entrance but im just not happy or convinced the posts will hold a heavy wooden gate


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    BryanF
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    Planning required


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    bazbrady
    Registered Users Posts: 257 ✭✭bazbrady


    BryanF wrote: »
    Planning required

    Well i never got planning for the post and rail fence and removing trees at the front of the entrance.Surprised in a rural setting i would need planning for the entrance.?.


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    Gumbo
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    bazbrady wrote: »
    Well i never got planning for the post and rail fence and removing trees at the front of the entrance.Surprised in a rural setting i would need planning for the entrance.?.

    Removing trees - no planning required.
    Post and rail fence - may not need Planning if under 1.2m in height.

    Any alteration to a vehicle entrance does require planning though.


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    bazbrady
    Registered Users Posts: 257 ✭✭bazbrady


    kceire wrote: »
    Removing trees - no planning required.
    Post and rail fence - may not need Planning if under 1.2m in height.

    Any alteration to a vehicle entrance does require planning though.

    Ok fair enough but the original question is not about planning.Its looking for a rough cost.


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    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 38,915 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    bazbrady wrote: »
    Ok fair enough but the original question is not about planning.Its looking for a rough cost.

    Get 3 quotes and compare is the best option.


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    Calahonda52
    Registered Users Posts: 12,346 ✭✭✭✭Calahonda52


    bazbrady wrote: »
    Hi.Just looking at rough costs to build two entrance pillars.I will be hanging wooden gates off them eventually but need cost of different options so first option just plastered block finish.Second would be with a limestone or similar brick finish or even brick cladding.Any suggestions.?

    why not replace existing posts with a 200 by 200 by 10 mm steel box section or similar, encased in good concrete foundation and clad in timber like existing.

    Fence and post into block pier will look sh$$

    “I can’t pay my staff or mortgage with instagram likes”.



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