Need concrete bollards in Durban? Bollards.co.za puts homeowners, businesses and public bodies in Durban in touch with precast concrete yards and bollard suppliers serving Durban and nearby areas of KwaZulu-Natal. Send one request with the length, the ground and a photo, and they quote you directly, free and with no obligation.
Concrete Bollards in Durban
Looking for concrete bollards in Durban? Give the shape, height, number of units and whether they stand free or set into the ground. Precast yards and installers serving Durban can quote for the units, delivery by crane truck and placing.
New to this? Read the concrete bollards guide for the choices and the points worth checking before you order.
What to know locally in Durban
On the beachfront, the Bluff and the first rows of Umhlanga, plain mild steel rusts through paint quickly, so many specifiers choose 316 stainless or hot dip galvanised steel with a powder coat on top. Precast concrete with exposed aggregate holds up well against spray and is common on promenades. Further up the Berea and out to Westville the air is milder, and galvanised and painted steel usually does the job for driveways and complexes.
Sites and streets in Durban
Along the beachfront promenade from the Point to the Umgeni River mouth, bollards do two jobs at once: they keep cars off a walkway packed with joggers and holiday crowds, and they have to survive spray that comes over the sea wall on windy days. Inland, the picture changes to the harbour and the south basin, where container trucks turn into depots in Jacobs, Mobeni and Prospecton and clip every gatepost and kerb in reach. Warwick Junction and the CBD add taxi ranks, busy sidewalks and shopfronts that need protection from smash and grabs. Steel fabricators and precast yards work mostly from the south basin and the industrial roads off the N2, and most quotes for the metro come from there.
Typical concrete bollards requests in the area come from:
- Warehouses, factories and depots: big units around gas tanks, transformers and yard corners
- Shops, malls and petrol stations: a heavy row in front of shopfronts and around fuel pump islands
- Offices, hotels and car parks: square precast posts marking office park entrances and walkways
Local tips for Durban
Suppliers serving Durban mostly work from here: jacobs, Mobeni and Prospecton, Springfield Park, Umgeni Road and the N2 corridor. The jobs that come up most: marine grade beachfront posts, truck protection at depots, shopfront bollards. When you ask for quotes, ask whether the steel is 316 stainless or galvanised, and how it is sealed against spray.
Sizes vary: about 600 to 1,000 mm high, heavy units. Here, warehouses, factories and depots lead the requests, typically for big units around gas tanks, transformers and yard corners. One local point to raise: crane trucks run from the south basin to most of the metro within a day.
Service area: Durban and surrounds
Suppliers and installers on our network work in Durban and surrounding areas, including Umhlanga, Pinetown, Westville, Umlazi, Phoenix, Chatsworth, Berea. Give your suburb and the site address, so delivery, crane time and travel can be quoted honestly.