California Parking Lot Accessories Contractors

Generally not as a blanket rule, though local codes and site plans often require them in specific places — at the head of stalls facing a walkway, a building, or a drop. They are also commonly used to protect landscaping and to stop overhang into a pedestrian route. Check your local requirements rather than assuming either way.

Concrete costs less up front and is very durable until something hits it hard, at which point it cracks and is heavy to replace. Recycled rubber costs more, survives impact and plow contact better, weighs far less to handle, and does not spall. On a plowed property or a lot with high turnover, rubber usually wins on total cost; on a low-traffic lot in a mild climate, concrete is hard to beat on price.

A speed bump is short and abrupt and brings traffic close to a stop — appropriate in parking aisles and near building entrances. A speed hump is longer and gentler and slows traffic to a moderate speed without stopping it — appropriate on through-lanes and private roads. Installing a bump where a hump belongs is the most common mistake, and it generates complaints and bottoming-out damage.

Only if they were built to. A structural bollard is a steel pipe set in a concrete footing, sometimes filled with concrete itself, and it will stop a vehicle at parking-lot speeds. A decorative sleeve over a short post is a visual marker. If the purpose is protecting a storefront, a fuel dispenser, or a utility meter, specify the footing depth and pipe size rather than the appearance.