post covers, bollard covers or post sleeves

[Diana]

I have some posts that have taken a beating, we've painted and painted. I'm considering post covers, bollard covers or post sleeves whatever you may call them.

I'd appreciate any advice based on your experiences.

We have all four seasons here, some very cold, icy winter days, and many hot, dry and high winds (blowing sand) days in the summer. Cash wash environment & weather durability is a must.

 

[Bubbles Galore]

I'm curious what kind of feedback you will receive as well. One of the big things for me is making sure that they can't be easily removed since I have a lot of apartments with bored kids that would love to take them all if given the opportunity. Thoughts?

 

[Whale of a Wash]

http://www.postguard.com/home.php

I bought about 25 post guards from these guys a couple of years ago, some blue, and some yellow and they still look perfect. I have had a couple damaged by vehicles. They send foam to put over the top of post, and if you double it up enough it is difficult to remove the post, but i put that spray expanding insulating foam inside the tube before i put in on the post and it glues them on really tight. They really give the posts a professional look.

 

[MEP001]

Kleen-Rite has a less expensive brand now that's about $25 each. I put on IdealShield blue ones at least six years ago and they still look great.

I did the same as Whale - I used the foam it comes with to hold the cover evenly spaced around the bollard and pumped the expanding foam in as I pushed the cover down. They aren't going anywhere.

What I'd really like to find is an inexpensive stainless tube to use as a cover. Kids like to scratch their initials into the plastic while their mom or dad is washing.

 

[MikeV]

"Inexpensive stainless"...isn't that an oxymoron?

 

[Waxman]

Kleen-Rite has a less expensive brand now that's about $25 each. I put on IdealShield blue ones at least six years ago and they still look great.

I did the same as Whale - I used the foam it comes with to hold the cover evenly spaced around the bollard and pumped the expanding foam in as I pushed the cover down. They aren't going anywhere.

What I'd really like to find is an inexpensive stainless tube to use as a cover. Kids like to scratch their initials into the plastic while their mom or dad is washing.

Maybe you could use a grinder with a less-aggressive whweel and smooth the graffiti off?

 

[Earl Weiss]

Ditto on the plastic covers. Got tired of painting and having them look like cr@p shortly thereafter.

 

[2Biz]

I recently bought (2) of the 4" Bollard covers from IdealShield. They sell both 1/4" wall and 1/8" wall tubes. $50 for the 1/4" and $25 for the 1/8"...I got the 1/4" ones which I would highly recommend. I couldn't imagine the 1/8" ones holding up well.

 

[DiamondWash]

We used carpet pad instead of the foam strips that came with ours we just wrapped two sections of the pole with 2' of carpet pad and it secured it way better then drilled in a concrete anchor at the bottom to prevent theft.