ProDave Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 Main house has triple glazed doors and windows, no letterbox (or cat flap) We were originally thinking of an external post box on the wall. Due to the tight budget, when I built the garage, I left out the doors for now (both pedestrian and vehicle) Yesterday I noticed my neighbour was having a new front door fitted. A quick word with said neighbour, and that door is now the pedestrian door into my garage. Remarkably they got the frame out undamaged and it fitted the hole left for a door almost perfectly. It's a good quality Swededoor in good condition, so it might well remain as the permanent door. So being an ex "front door" it has a letterbox. So now we are thinking to just educate the postman that the post goes through the door on the side of the garage and no need for a box on the wall by the front door. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 Sounds good to me, assuming you usually have the same person delivering your post. Maybe a discreet sign somewhere near the front door? I guess you could add that if you find you're having problems with mail deliveries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProDave Posted December 5, 2016 Author Share Posted December 5, 2016 I think some sineage may be necessary. I notice next doors new front door doesn't have a letterbox, and neither do they have a post box on the wall. I wonder how the postman dealt with that today? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe90 Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 Not a problem with my new build , I am building a front porch to create an air lock and the letter box is in the outer door. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToughButterCup Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 5 minutes ago, joe90 said: [...] to create an air lock [...] Hey up Joe, getting serious then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe90 Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 Oh yes, out of the ground and bricks being laid today ?, now I can seriously start looking at details, ( sorry back to the thread). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProDave Posted December 5, 2016 Author Share Posted December 5, 2016 So I said to SWMBO "We need a house name sign. Underneath it will be an arrow pointing left saying post, and an arrow pointing right saying visitors" "No. This is not bloody tesco" (other supermarkets are available) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerryE Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 We haven't used a letter box (in our front door) for over ten years. What we have is a post box next to the door. People lift the lid and can drop letters and small parcels in. Works a treat. I will be doing the same in the new house, the only tweak I'd make would be to have a small flag rocker on the lid which tips upright if the lid is opened. That way we can see if the box has been opened without opening the front door. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crofter Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 Up here it's not uncommon to nail an old microwave oven to a fence post. Postie will know what to do. Crofters are world leaders when it comes to recycling! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProDave Posted December 6, 2016 Author Share Posted December 6, 2016 ^^ Don't give me ideas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steptoe Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 It might convince mrsPD that the sign is actually a good idea after all @ProDave 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToughButterCup Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 20 hours ago, Crofter said: Up here it's not uncommon to nail an old microwave oven to a fence post. [...] Right. That's that problem sorted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProDave Posted December 7, 2016 Author Share Posted December 7, 2016 I mentioned the Microwave on a post thing. The reply was "knowing you, you would fix it and use it rather than nail it to a post" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jack Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 One thing to consider is some sort of enclosure for deliveries. I haven't had a chance to look more closely yet, but I'm thinking of building a bin enclosure (a more stylish version of this) near the pedestrian gate at the end of our drive and incorporating something like this at one side. Remains to be seen whether it can be done without looking shite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProDave Posted December 7, 2016 Author Share Posted December 7, 2016 ^^ In the crofting world, that's what old coal bunkers are for (next to the post and microwave for the smaller items) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crofter Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 Yup, plenty of space in a crofter's coal bunker, cos they should be using peat anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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