Marker posts

Marker posts for zones, obstacles and lanes

Marker posts show where someone may or may not drive, walk or park, and make obstacles visible before anything happens. They are the simplest form of guidance on a site: not a sign with text, but a vertical element that draws a line everyone understands immediately. On car parks, business parks, construction sites and in the public domain they quietly do their work every day.

We supply marker posts to local authorities, contractors, facility managers and companies with their own sites. The choice comes down to one question above all: should the post stay standing when a vehicle hits it, or should it stop the vehicle. That difference determines the model, the material and the anchoring.

Where you use marker posts

• Marking out lanes, turning areas and one-way traffic on private sites
• Protecting obstacles and making them visible: corners, loading docks, manhole covers
• Separating pedestrian and vehicle zones on a company site or car park

Versions

Flexible marker posts

These posts bend on impact and spring back afterwards. They mark; they do not stop. For zones where impacts happen as a matter of course, such as tight manoeuvring areas, they are by far the cheapest choice in use: you rarely replace them and there is no damage to the vehicle.

Fixed posts

A fixed post in steel or cast iron stays exactly where it stands. You choose it when the post also has to physically prevent a car from driving onto a footpath or into a facade. Expect damage to both the post and the vehicle on impact, and anchoring that can withstand it.

Removable and folding posts

For access points that are usually closed but occasionally have to open, for example for the fire service, deliveries or maintenance. With a lock or a triangular key you keep control of who operates them.

Material and anchoring

Flexible posts are usually in elastic plastic with a reinforced base. Fixed posts are in coated or galvanised steel, aluminium or cast iron, powder coated in the colour of your choice. Anchoring is done with a base plate on chemical or mechanical anchors, with a removable ground socket, or set in concrete. The substrate weighs heavily: asphalt, block paving and concrete each call for a different approach, and a base plate on thin asphalt pulls loose at the first knock.

In practice

• Choose the spacing according to what you want to prevent: posts set too far apart simply let vehicles through between them
• Do not place posts in the pedestrian desire line, and certainly not without a detectable base where visually impaired people pass
• Combine them with floor marking and, where needed, with signage; a post on its own imposes no rule
• Take account of what the tender specification or the road authority requires in the public domain

When a marker post is not enough

Marker posts mark, they do not physically stop. If you really want to prevent a vehicle from driving or parking somewhere, you need a parking hoop, a barrier or impact protection designed for that purpose. And if the problem is that people do not know the rule, a post will not solve it: then you need signage.

What determines the price?

The price depends on the type of post (flexible, fixed, removable or folding), the height and diameter, the material and the coating, the reflective finish, the locking system and the number of pieces. On top of that, the anchoring method, the substrate, any groundwork and on-site installation all weigh in. For larger series the calculation works out differently than for a handful of pieces.

Request a proposal for your site

Send us a plan or a few photos of the area, with the substrate and the number of posts you have in mind. We will advise on a specification and send you a tailored quotation.