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Pier caps for gate piers

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  • 11-07-2007 1:15pm
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    luckat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭


    I'm looking for pier caps for the gates of my 1930s house. The original ones are pyramids with three rows of stepping at the bottom, in red concrete, but they're in rag order.

    There are pyramids in Smith's in Greenhills Road, but they're much shallower and don't, on a quick look, seem so nice. Would anyone know where there are nice ones that would suit a 1930s house? (I don't want anything fancy like granite - just nicer shaped ones than the standard.)


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    #2
    10-10-20
    Registered Users Posts: 7,163 ✭✭✭10-10-20


    Doing a bit of 'drive-by' shopping late at night??? Eh? ;-)


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    #3
    luckat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭luckat


    Heh, me and my chisel...

    I suppose I'll end up getting the Smiths ones. Saw some really nice 1930s-style ones on people's gates, though. Wonder where they're getting them.


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    hobie
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    Have a look through some of these ....

    http://www.killeshal.com/pier_caps.htm

    http://www.hughesprecast.co.uk/piercaps.html


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    #5
    luckat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭luckat


    Oh thanks, hobie - the second lot are nice (the first only seemed to have two that you could look at), but the ones I liked best didn't come in 18", the size I'd like. I suppose I'll end up getting what's available and living with it.


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    #6
    luckat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭luckat


    I realised that those Killeshal pier caps were drawings, openable as DWF files, so I downloaded a Mac reader for DWFs and tried to look at them (McDiff is the app). But I'm getting errors on all except one of the ones that are the right size. I've emailed the company, but maybe they don't mind their website much - the link at the bottom of the page to the PC-type viewer brings up a 404.


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    hobie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,338 ✭✭✭hobie


    Looks like those files are CAD files ..... nothing simple in life that's for sure .... :(

    You could have them snail mail you a brochure perhaps? .... :confused:


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    #8
    luckat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭luckat


    Found a site that reads those DWF files http://dwfit.com/index.aspx


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