Sign removal ‘to cost thousands’
Thursday 22nd November
Sign removal ‘to cost thousands’
The American Adventure at Ilkeston shut down 10 months ago but 40 signs for the attraction are still in place.
Derbyshire County Council estimates it would cost at least £25,000 to remove and replace all the signs.
The 4m by 4m “direction” signs have several destinations, including American Adventure, on them.
Some of the signs, which can weigh hundreds of pounds and need lifting equipment to move them, are located on roads in neighbouring counties including Staffordshire and Nottinghamshire.
Have these people never heard of gaffer tape? Tchoh! I’ll do it for £10,000.
Good old duct tape (the handyman’s helper) and black plastic - I’ll come help for that amount of money. Can I have it in dollars, though?
Debster
22 Nov 07 at 4:02 pm
Have they never heard of ‘angle grinders’ and ’scrap metal dealers’?
Tchoh!
henry
22 Nov 07 at 4:13 pm
road signs are not chep
Mr H
22 Nov 07 at 4:14 pm
Which is why they should tape over the name instead of replacing the signs completely, Mr. H
stu
22 Nov 07 at 4:21 pm
You have Klass, Mr Carter;-)
lordhutton
22 Nov 07 at 4:22 pm
Gaffer tape? My Mum would pay to be allowed to do the job. She’d even bring her own gaffer tape.
Well, she’d nick mine, but the principle is the same…
The Gaffer
22 Nov 07 at 4:49 pm
Hang on, I’m sure I’ve seen a fair number of signs around this way with just some kind of painted covering over them. Paint, probably.
It’s not quite as classy as gaffer tape, maybe, but it won’t be so conspicuous either.
Kouros
22 Nov 07 at 5:30 pm
Tape. Maybe I’ll suggest that to the people putting up millions of signs when we have election. Every damn lamp post covered in signs. Signs are stupid. I wish we’d live in a world without signs… *cue horrible nightmare about a world without signs* ..
plume
22 Nov 07 at 10:12 pm
Paint! Paint! I can paint houses, Stu. I’m sure I could learn to paint signs.
Debster
23 Nov 07 at 2:15 am
What they should do is pay someone living nearby a tenner to rename their house “The American Adventure” and then just leave all the signs as they are.
Rich
23 Nov 07 at 4:52 pm
I like the way you think, Rich
stu
23 Nov 07 at 5:04 pm
Mr Stu is your email borked? I can’t send it to your pygmygoat dot net address.
flibble
25 Nov 07 at 2:17 pm
Yes it is, flibble. Email sent.
stu
25 Nov 07 at 7:26 pm