Ensure your house address can easily be found in an emergency
If you don’t happen to be the envy of all your
neighbours and
have a reflective, fluorescent pink house sign surrounded by flashing
lights, here are a few common sense suggestions which will enable the
emergency services to quickly find your address.
- The numbers or letters should be in a contrasting colour to the
background of the sign. Will those new, shiny brass numerals still
stand out against the dark door in a few months time when the
weather has turned them dark brown? Are you really going to get out
the Brasso every week and give them a polish!
- If your home is set back from the road place your house sign on
a gate or wall near to the road. If you have both a
house number
and a house name, the number should take priority. Lesser mortals
who only have a number should cheer themselves up by buying one
sign for the house and one for the gate.
- Find the chainsaw to do a little light pruning on the foliage
so that your house name or number can be seen clearly.
- When you’re finished take the chainsaw and a pot of paint
round to your neighbours and offer to help make their numbers more
visible. Everyone will be able to find your home more quickly if
their houses are also clearly numbered. If any of them are of a
nervous disposition, perhaps it would be best to leave the chainsaw
at home.
- If you live on a street with shops, encourage your local
shopkeepers to display the street number clearly on their shop
fronts.
- Finally, if your residence is out in the country, situated in
the darkest depths of the back of beyond, it’s helpful to
know your property’s map reference. Once armed with this
information, place it by the phone so you can give the exact
location of your home in an emergency.
16th June 2005
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