To ask you to put your house number where I can see it?

[Duvetdweller]

I'm helping out a friend who is doing deliveries from his restaurant to try and keep afloat. It's dark and it's raining - google maps can only take me so far. Would it kill you to put a number on your house? Or even on your gate so I can see it from the road? Also, if you live at 100 Main Road, please don't just put your house name because it sounds posh, your dinner will be very cold.

I agree, assuming they have a house number.

First thing we did when we moved in was put the house number on the wall by the road. Busy road, long drives and lots of house only have numbers by their door which you can’t see from a car and lots on the numbers in gates and pillars are old and peeling.

@lanthanum

Perhaps the restaurant should ask people to download the what3words app and use that.

Seriously. This is the answer. I have no idea why more people don't use it.

I was ranting after a particularly ridiculous delivery but do think it’s interesting in terms of more online shopping plus the more important reason if emergency services. Anyway - I’ve now got a massive address sign, motion lighting and I always try and keep an ear out for all deliveries, not just deliveroo when I’m slavering round the letter box

There is an app called Delm8 which maps individual houses for you.

Paramedic mapping now takes them right to your door, but as an ambulance volunteer I dont have that and it’s very frustrating driving up a road looking for a house that doesnt have a highly visible name or number.

I can understand this rage! But I seem to be stuck. The house I live in doesn’t have a number on the front, and my landlord won’t let me put one up. He won’t even let me stick a sign in the window “oh no, see, in your lease it clearly says you can’t display signs or similar in the windows!” I honestly can’t fathom why he’s so against numbering the house.

It wouldn’t be so bad if my neighbours had numbers up, but you have to go 4 houses down the street before coming upon a number.

Can we petition parliament on this one? My psychic powers fail me when it comes to magically sensing the house's true number...!

slurs.this.shark

Try copying and pasting the above into google. I challenge you not to find where it is!!!

Quite fun looking up your own address too.

If I put my address into what3words it says "no address found"

One of the first things I did when I moved in was put up a very visible plate with not just the house number but the street name, as my street annoying changes name part-way along and renumbers from there.

My neighbour looked at it sniffly and said, "But everybody knows where we are."

@Roselilly36

Use sat nav, this strange wizardry will take you straight to the door if you enter postcode & street number.

It brings people looking for about 4 other houses to our door, too.

@bloodywhitecat

If I put my address into what3words it says "no address found"

Try having a look at the map (may need to click icon bottom right of screen). If you can find your address on the map you cans get your w3w address.

What three words is brilliant, I've used it loads 👏

We have a large backlit number (see pic) as we have a lot of deliveries. Never had anyone not find us. But is boils my piss that the neighbours on one side won’t get a house number at all, and their house has no name. They say people see ours so can work it out, but they usually go to the neighbour the other side and bother them.
It should be mandatory to get a clear sign with name or number, with a standard size.
My sister’s road only has names and on numbers, so she bought a house number that logically they would be if the houses were numbered and uses that too. Since she put it on the wall, they have never missed a delivery either.

My street goes 1,3,5,7 my street /1,2,3,4 orchard terrace / 7a, 8 my street / orchard house/ 8a, 8b, 8c, 9,11,15 my street / 1,2,3,4 mill street/ 17,19,21 my street

These are all in one long row but built at different times

There are no houses on the opposite side of the street and no number 13!

It's an absolute nightmare

My house has six inch high numbers on the front. At night they’re illuminated by an uplighter. I still get people knocking and saying “Is this number ten?” They are standing right next to the house number! I also get people knocking despite standing right next to a huge doorbell button which lights up at night, but that’s a different problem.

If I put my address into what3words it says "no address found"

It found mine.

It's the wrong house though.

I live in an old house that is number 13 and because of that it has no number on. The previous owners had lived here since 1975 without putting a number on it, it has the original wooden front door and I can’t see any screw holes or marks so I wonder if it has ever had 13 on it?

Anyway I don’t want to tempt fate by being the first to do it, stupid I know!

@Betsyboo87

YANBU. I was told by a paramedic once that it’s really important to have clear house numbers displayed. When they’re looking for a house in an emergency it saves crucial time.

Exactly this!

I'm in the emergency services... Help us to help you by making your house number obvious! If you need us in an emergency you don't want us driving slowly down your road, squinting at tiny house numbers, searching around unnumbered houses, desperately trying find the correct one.

And for those saying about satnav... I've lost count of the number of times it has just dumped me on a road nowhere near the right number.

Or at least say what distinguishing feature it has. Many houses around me only have names and it drives me nuts.

I live on a tiny street where the houses on one side are 1-8, the other is 9-16. It does throw people, no. 2 are always getting callers for no.3, they just see no. 1 and assume 3 is next door. Daft thing is, we all have decent sized numbers.

Ah! Yes, indeed! 😂 We've jumped on board to help out when the takeaway that DS has worked at part time for years has been occasionally over ran with deliveries, and short staffed. My personal favourites of 'lovely people' have included; a guy who jumped on his quad to meet us at the end of his lane (in horrific weather) when we were stumped for the property (£5) tip also! (thank you Mr Nice Customer), and a footballer who at Christmas gave the usual till working teen a selfie with them, a £10 tip, plus 5min doorstep chit chat after they came with to do the drop off (repeat customer so we knew who they were already). As opposed to the 'well, how did you not know it was us, brigade?!'... When there's no numbers, no lights, and the house looks like it's been derelict 30yrs 🙄

We have our number in 2 places. One on the gate post and one on a tree trunk that grows in a flower bed by the roadside and still we get the complaint that there is no house number.

Although we went to somewhere where there were 2 road names and 2 identical sets of numbers on what was just one road.

Apparently the right hand side of the road was eg Grove Lane and the left hand side was Grove Avenue. Number 42 was opposite number 42.

Now that is confusing

As somebody who does home visits for work I wholeheartedly agree. Can I also add, if you live in a block of flats, particularly one without a sign saying which flats are on which floor, please tell people which floor to go to when you buzz them in. It would save me so much time and guess work, especially when I am carrying equipment with me!

OP I have this problem as a community HCP, drives me nuts!

Maybe you should get your customers to stand out front doing the windmill mentioned above?

We are one of 3 houses (all named, no numbers, country village) down a drive off the road. I want to put the house names on the gatepost but we’ve only just moved in to our house and the other 2 houses have been 20/30 years, so feels a bit Johnny newcomer to be sticking up signs straightaway. But don’t understand why they haven’t!