The HOA of a lake subdivision ask me to set a monument with GPS data and an elevation so they would have an onsite control point for future FEMA forms.
I set a concrete monument with a brass disk about half foot under sod and covered with a sculptured landscaping casting at a same zone by a boat ramp and gave the HOA the OPUS data sheet.
Bill93, post: 378634, member: 87 wrote: If you can talk them out of iron above ground, my preference would be iron rods well below the surface with gray PVC capped pipe slipped over the rod and protruding above the surface.
This has been suggested as an option where I work. My concern would be the pins could be easily displaced with the PVC acting as a lever.
Go to Home Depot and buy some 2" galvanized pipe, set it at the corner(s) and pound it or cut it to your clients desired height. It makes no difference if the corner sticks out of the ground or not.
A 4' long, 2" heavy wall pipe driven directly over the iron halfway into the ground. If you take pride in your work, you make sure it's straight up and down every time you let someone else take a swing at it.
Ben Purvis, post: 378466, member: 363 wrote: A builder has requested permanent above ground markers for the property corners that are buried and I'm looking for some suggestions as to what others are using. He suggested the T Posts for wire fencing but that would get extremely unappealing in a neighborhood very quickly which I pointed out to him. I personally don't like the idea for a number of reasons the least of which is that I believe it will create more problems than it will solve.
Edit....I forgot to mention that he wants them to be steel so mowers don't destroy them. I had suggested PVC to no avail.
Who cares if you think they're ugly? If he wants "T" posts, drive the "T" post.
I hate driving them so we use 5' long 1/2" rebar we cut at the office, when we are requested for something like this.