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It usually takes one near miss at the gate. Somebody eases out, a truck appears from behind the hedge, and the conversation about a mirror starts that afternoon. Group One New Zealand supplies and installs convex safety mirrors around Amberley, with crews travelling up from our Islington base in Christchurch, about 50 km down State Highway 1. Sydney Chappell founded the New Zealand company in 2026. Tell us which entrance it was and we will come and look at it.
Pulling out onto the highway, and out of a farm gate
Amberley is the largest town in the Hurunui District and the service centre for the dairy, sheep, arable and grape-growing country around it, which means two very different kinds of exit in the same afternoon’s work.
- A farm or lifestyle-block entrance where a shelter belt, a hedge or a rise hides the road until the bonnet is out
- A commercial or trade yard exit onto a street carrying through traffic
- A loading or delivery bay where a truck reverses across a route people walk
- The turning area beside a shed or a woolshed, where machinery crosses a walking route
- A blind corner in a shared car park, or a right of way behind a row of premises
- An aisle or doorway crossing inside a shed where a forklift and people meet
Property around town runs to standalone houses, lifestyle properties and lifestyle sections, so a good share of the gateways we look at were built for occasional farm use and are now used several times a day by people towing something.
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Industries We Serve
We proudly serve clients across a range of sectors, including:
Hospitals
Aviation Surfaces
Schools
Sporting Surfaces
Factory Safety Lines
Body Corporate
How a job runs from the first call
The crew travels up with everything in one load: ladder, post, auger, levels. So the questions we ask at the start are about the ground where a post might go, whether there is already a structure worth mounting to, and when the entrance can be occupied for an hour without holding anyone up.
On site the assessment is made from the driver’s eye position, sitting in a vehicle at the exit. Where the entrance runs , that position is settled for you, because every vehicle waits in the same place for them to open. A mirror set from the fence line often turns out to be invisible from a cab, or to be showing the wrong forty metres of road. It then mounts to what is standing, a post, a wall, a shed corner, a pole, or to a new post we dig and set. Aiming is the final step and it takes the longest: tilt it, get back in the seat, look again, adjust. The same crews work the region from Amberley in the north down to Timaru in the south, and west towards the foothills.
Where drivers and people on foot share the same corner
Not every job here is a gateway. A 250-home retirement village is being developed on 37 acres in the centre of town, and that kind of site produces a different problem: internal roads, visitor parking, tight corners, and residents on foot using the same lanes as cars and delivery vans.
On sites like that the mirror is aimed at people as much as at traffic. That changes the mounting height, since a face set for a truck cab is often too high to show a person standing at a corner, and it changes the position, because the mirror has to sit where a driver’s eye already goes rather than where the post happens to be. It is worth walking those corners on foot as well as driving them, and we do.
Sizing it, and what it is made of
Diameter follows viewing distance. A driver checking a long straight stretch before pulling out needs a much larger face than someone easing along an internal road, otherwise the approaching vehicle reads as a speck and seems further off than it is.
Height follows the vehicle and the ground: clear of what parks in front of it, low enough to be showing road rather than hedge top.
Orientation is settled last. A face pointed into a low morning or evening sun goes white at the hour the traffic is heaviest, which is generally the case for a hooded format on an open outdoor exit.
Materials follow the exposure. Stainless steel faces will not break and take the weather without clouding, which suits an exposed gateway on this coast, where north-westerlies are the region’s strongest winds and winter brings the higher rainfall. Polycarbonate absorbs an impact without shattering and belongs at forklift height or anywhere a load can swing into it. Acrylic gives the sharpest image and is best indoors or under cover. Half domes suit a T-junction inside a shed; full domes suit a four-way crossing. Mounts go onto existing posts, walls and poles or onto a new galvanised post, with corrosion protected brackets and aluminium or stainless fixings.
Why the delivery is not the job
Any national supplier will courier a convex mirror to a rural address, and the hardware that arrives is usually sound. What the carton cannot hold is the decision about which side of the entrance it belongs on, how far back from the road, at what height, facing which way, and what will actually hold it through a nor’wester. That is the part that determines whether the blind spot goes away. A mirror in an approximately right position leaves the danger where it was while convincing everyone it has been handled. Siting it, mounting it and aiming it is the service.
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The team from Group One were exceptional.
They arrived on time, did a fantastic job and made our childcare centre carpark look like new . Thankyou
Prompt and efficient service.
Very professional and experienced. Syd always answers his phone otherwise calls you back. Highly recommended.
Highly recommended.
Competitive price, quality work and even helped me put up the customer parking signs. Went above and beyond. Thanks very much, Syd and Blake.
Great job and no complaints!
Wonderful to work with and helping us get our line marking completed. Would definitely use again and refer to others.
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We recently hired Group 1 Linemarking for a few of our residential strata projects, and the results exceeded our expectations. The team was punctual, professional, and clearly experienced. The line marking was crisp, precise, and done exactly to spec. Communication throughout the process was smooth, and they were flexible with scheduling, which made things a lot easier on our end. If you need reliable, high-quality line marking services, I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Group 1. Great job!
Working with Syd and his team is always a pleasure
The quality of work is always to a high standard. The Group One team is always professional, they apply a high standard for safety ensuring their SWMS is tailored for the job and their equipment is serviced and well maintained. I highly recommend Group One and if you use them you won’t be disappointed.
Permission, and what Hurunui District Council has to confirm
We will be straight about this one. The Hurunui District does not publish a town-specific fence or gate height rule that we can point you to, so anyone quoting you a local height limit for Amberley is guessing.
What can be stated is the national position. A building consent is not required for fences or hoardings up to 2.5 metres high. District plans made under the Resource Management Act may still require a resource consent for fences over a certain height, commonly around 2 metres, and swimming pool fences sit outside that exemption and do need a building consent. Boundary fences remain subject to the Fencing Act 1978.
So if your mirror is going on a boundary structure, a road frontage, or anything tall, confirm the District Plan position directly with Hurunui District Council, which is seated in Amberley, before the job is booked. Inside your own boundary on your own building, it is generally straightforward. We install to whatever the council confirms.
What the quote covers
Pricing is on quote and follows a site visit. What moves it:
- The number of mirrors, and whether one position answers two approaches
- Diameter, which on rural sight lines is usually driven up
- Whether there is a sound structure to mount to, or a post has to be dug and set
- Ground conditions where that post goes
- Outdoor exposure, and the corrosion grade of the fixings
- Hooded or open face, and the face material
- Access, and how long the entrance can be closed
Contact us for bespoke pricing. Quotes are written, in New Zealand dollars, and come after someone has stood in the gateway.
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Knocks, growth and re-aims
Machinery catches posts, and vehicles reversing in the dark find brackets. Ring us and we come back, straighten it and re-aim it.
Entrances also change. A new shed goes up, a second gateway opens, a hedge grows into the sight line over three seasons, or a development next door alters where the traffic comes from. We come back out, look again from the driver’s seat, and re-angle or relocate. We guarantee all the work we do.
Group One New Zealand, and who is behind it
Sydney Chappell founded Group One New Zealand in 2026. We are a small team, so you know you’ll get the very best, and everything we fit around the Hurunui District comes out of the Islington base in Christchurch. We hold nothing locally and have no premises up this way. In the company’s own words: “Although Group 1 Line Marking has just started here in New Zealand, as a group we have been operating in Australia for almost 25 years.” The full range is set out on our page.
Arrange a look
Once a mirror is up, the habit worth keeping is to sit in the gateway about once a year and check that it still shows what it showed on the day it went in. Shelter belts thicken, a post gets nudged by machinery, and none of it moves fast enough to notice from the house, so the near miss tends to come back before anyone works out why. If you would rather we did that check, say so when you call.
Phone 027 424 0600 or email info@groupone.co.nz, 7am to 3pm Monday to Friday. Group One New Zealand, Unit 1, 37 Foremans Road, Islington, Christchurch 8042. NZBN 9429053752833.
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Questions we get around Amberley
Do you need permission to put up a convex mirror?
On your own land, on your own building or an existing compliant structure, usually not. It depends on what carries it. Because the Hurunui District publishes no local fence height limit we can quote you, the honest answer is to confirm the District Plan position with Hurunui District Council before anything tall or boundary-mounted goes in. The national rule is that fences and hoardings up to 2.5 metres do not need a building consent, and a resource consent can still apply above about 2 metres.
How much does a convex mirror cost?
It is quoted per site, not per item, because the mirror is the smaller part of the job. Diameter, the mount, whether a post has to be dug, the fixing grade and the access all move it. The prices you see on overseas pages are not New Zealand supply and do not include anyone coming out to install and aim it. Tell us the address and we will look, then quote in writing.
What is the purpose of a convex safety mirror?
The curved face spreads the reflection wide, so one mirror covers an arc a flat mirror of the same size never could. At a gateway that means seeing a truck coming from behind a shelter belt in time to wait.
What are the disadvantages of a convex mirror?
The curve that widens the view compresses distance. Vehicles look smaller and further away than they really are, and speed is genuinely difficult to judge off a convex face. Sharpness also drops toward the edge. It answers whether something is coming, not how long you have, so drivers still need to creep out and look. On a fast road frontage that trade-off is worth talking through before anything is mounted.
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