An installer quotes better when it knows the ground, the length or the width, what is underneath and who must approve the work. Send one request with the details and we pass it to bollard suppliers and installers working in Johannesburg and nearby areas of Gauteng.
Chain and Post Barriers in Johannesburg
Looking for bollards with chain in Johannesburg? Give the length of the line, the corners and openings, the look you want and whether the posts go into lawn, gravel or paving, so suppliers and installers serving Johannesburg, Gauteng, can quote posts, chain and fixing.
New to this? Read the chain and post barriers guide for the choices and the points worth checking before you order.
Johannesburg notes on installation & traffic control
The Witwatersrand ridges mean installers in Northcliff, Melville and Linden often hit quartzite a short way down, so a core drill or a smaller, wider footing may replace a deep hole. In the south, mine dump sand and fill call for deeper concrete. Body corporates order speed humps and boom gates through the year, and contractors working on the M1 and inner city roads hire jersey barriers and cones by the week.
Sites and streets in Johannesburg
In Johannesburg the bollard question is usually about the sidewalk. Minibus taxis pulling onto pavements around the CBD ranks, delivery trucks mounting kerbs in Marshalltown and Braamfontein, and cars parked across shop entrances in Soweto and along Louis Botha Avenue all push owners and the city towards rows of posts. Shopping centres and cash handling sites deal with ram raids, while townhouse complexes from Fourways to the south want boom gates and humps. Steel fabricators and precast suppliers sit in City Deep, Industria, Denver and Wynberg, close to the M1, M2 and N12. Under old CBD paving there are cables, fibre and water mains nobody has drawn properly, so ask about a cable locator and a municipal wayleave before anyone breaks ground.
The requests we see from Johannesburg usually come from:
- Shops, malls and petrol stations: plastic chain lines guiding queues and closing off part of a car park
- Warehouses, factories and depots: chain lines marking a walkway or a no-go area in a yard
- Municipalities and public spaces: cast posts and chain around a monument, square or park lawn
Local tips for Johannesburg
Asked for most in Johannesburg: sidewalk and taxi rank bollards, ram raid posts for shops, complex boom gates. Where the installers and yards are: city Deep, Industria, Denver and Wynberg, with yards along the M1 and N12. A useful tip: ask who arranges the wayleave and the service scan before sidewalk work starts.
Around Johannesburg the largest group asking is shops, malls and petrol stations, which usually means plastic chain lines guiding queues and closing off part of a car park. Before you agree to anything: mark openings and corners before ordering. Getting units there: crane trucks deliver from yards in the south and east; installers cover the whole city.
Service area: Johannesburg and surrounds
Requests from Johannesburg go to suppliers and installers that already serve Sandton, Randburg, Roodepoort, Soweto, Rosebank, Fourways, Melville and the rest of the area. Say whether you need supply only or supply and install, and whether a site visit suits you.