Need bollards in Gauteng? Bollards.co.za puts homeowners, businesses and public bodies in Gauteng in touch with bollard suppliers and installers serving towns and cities across Gauteng. Send one request with the length, the ground and a photo, and they quote you directly, free and with no obligation.
Bollards in Gauteng
Need bollards in Gauteng? Say what you want to protect, the length of the line, the ground or slab and whether the posts must stop a car or just guide it. Independent suppliers and installers around Gauteng can then quote for the posts, footings and finishing.
Want to know more first? Our bollards guide covers the options, what to ask for and what affects the price.
What to know locally in Gauteng
Concrete filled steel pipe, galvanised and powder coated yellow or black, is the workhorse in Gauteng's industrial nodes from Jet Park to Rosslyn. Office forecourts in Midrand and Waterfall lean towards brushed 304 stainless, which is enough inland. Precast domes and mushrooms come from yards around the East Rand quarries. Solar bollard lights are popular on complex paths because they keep working through load-shedding, while mains lights need cabling and a CoC from a registered electrician.
Who protects what in Gauteng
Gauteng buys more bollards than any other province, mostly because of crime and congestion. Shopfronts and cash points in Sandton, Rosebank and Menlyn want posts against ram raids, townhouse complexes from Fourways to Pretoria East run boom gates and speed humps, and logistics parks along the R21, N12 and N3 fit yellow steel posts at every dock door. Ground varies: dolomite under parts of Centurion, the West Rand and Ekurhuleni means digging needs care and sometimes a geotechnical check, while black clay north of Pretoria swells and shrinks. Precast yards, steel fabricators and core drillers sit in Wadeville, Isando, Kya Sand, Rosslyn and Silverton, so supply is close, though Highveld storms and load-shedding still shape how automatic barriers are wired.
Typical bollards requests in the area come from:
- Estates, complexes and body corporates: posts along visitor parking and walkways so cars stay off the lawns and paths
- Shops, malls and petrol stations: a line of posts in front of shopfronts, ATMs and pump islands against reversing cars
- Warehouses, factories and depots: protecting racking ends, doors, gas lines and pedestrian routes from forklifts and trucks
Local tips for Gauteng
Suppliers serving Gauteng mostly work from here: wadeville, Isando, Kya Sand, Rosslyn, Silverton, City Deep and Midrand. The jobs that come up most: ram-raid posts for shopfronts, complex boom gates, forklift posts in logistics parks. When you ask for quotes, ask whether the quote covers a dolomite check or a cable scan before any digging.
Sizes vary: 900 to 1,200 mm high, about 1.2 m clear gap. Here, estates, complexes and body corporates lead the requests, typically for posts along visitor parking and walkways so cars stay off the lawns and paths. One local point to raise: short hauls from East Rand and Pretoria yards; crane trucks reach most suburbs same day.
Service area: Gauteng and surrounds
Across Gauteng our network reaches Johannesburg, Pretoria, Ekurhuleni, Sedibeng, West Rand, Midrand, Centurion and the towns between them. Outside the bigger centres, ask whether units come from a regional yard or a metro, and how delivery is charged.