Painting a curb for night-time visibility?

[Wet_One]

When I reverse into my parking space, there is a bit of curbed corner that I have to reverse around, gettin my back wheel quite close to it in order to park neatly.

It's fine in the day time, but at night, the bright lights wall lights of the car park glaring from behind mean that it is in shadow and you only need a little rain to reduce visibility in the mirrors and it's quite easy to clip it.

I'm looking to add a small area of brighter colour to it to make it more visible and I was thinking that I could apply some paint to the vertical surface.

Would something like this be very visible in the gloom when illuminated by reversing lights?

Or do I need something like this:

Or am I barking up the wrong tree and should use reflective strips:

(If so, how do I make it stick to a concrete curb?)

 

[foxhole]

Marker spray paint , but will need a touch up occasionally.

 

[bernardgreen]

Refractive tape would be better than most reflective tape as refractive type returns the light to the source.

The background material used for car number plates makes a good warning marker. Hardwearing and weather resistant.

I use it for marking the edge of my thatched roof to ensure HGV drivers can see it at night.

 

[scbk]

An old tin of white oil based paint would do the job of making it a bit more visible.

If you ever walk/cycle along main roads you sometimes see old road studs discarded in the verges/gutters, you could stick one of them to the top of the curb


https://meonuk.com/products/stimson...epPSOqeZ31JzMwW71iVrCiUg4dXwXH78aAjNGEALw_wcB

 

[Wet_One]

Thanks for the advice, it is much appreciated. I have a few follow-up questions:

Marker spray paint , but will need a touch up occasionally.

Does this actually look very visible in the dark? I can see lots of reviews about its visibility in daylight, but nothing about how well it pops from the shadows.

Refractive tape would be better than most reflective tape as refractive type returns the light to the source.

How would you stick that to concrete? I am not sure that the stickyback plastic would stay stuck very long

I use it for marking the edge of my thatched roof to ensure HGV drivers can see it at night.

In my experience, that just gives them something to aim for.

An old tin of white oil based paint would do the job of making it a bit more visible.

I suppose it's worth a try and I might finally find a use for those 90% empty tins of paint I refuse to throw away.

 

[bernardgreen]

How would you stick that to concrete?

Epoxy adhesive

In my experience, that just gives them something to aim for.

They seem to be bad shots as they ( so far ) have missed the target

 

[foxhole]

You could use marker paint as a guide for your turn to ensure you reverse the same route every time.

 

[Captain Nemesis]

Glow in the dark concrete paint?

 

[HERTS P&D]

Drive on straight!

I'm here all night.

Andy

 

[Captain Nemesis]

Lateral thinking - instead of avoiding the problem by making the kerb easy to see, make the kerb not a problem by buying a Unimog...

 

[Wet_One]

As an update, I did it with a spray can of Plasti-kote 1115 400ml Super Gloss - Yellow.

To be honest, the results were pretty disappointing: I think that even if I had put an undercoat down, it still would have been bad - on plain concrete it really failed to standout, especially at night.

But once you've knackered your rims it matter much less the next time......

 

[foxhole]

Wrong spray paint.

https://www.pitchmark.co.uk/products/line-marking-paint/750ml-aerosol-spray-cans

 

[HERTS P&D]

Andy