Need plastic bollards in Durban? Bollards.co.za puts homeowners, businesses and public bodies in Durban in touch with traffic safety 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.
Plastic and Flexible Bollards in Durban
Looking for plastic or flexible bollards in Durban? Say the number of posts, the height and colour, the surface they bolt to and whether you need lane separator kerbs. Traffic safety suppliers and installers around Durban can then quote.
The main plastic bollards page explains the types, the fixing and the costs in more detail.
Durban notes on bollard types
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 plastic bollards requests in the area come from:
- Warehouses, factories and depots: marking truck routes and keep-clear zones in yards where hits are common
- Estates, complexes and body corporates: splitting visitor and resident lanes at the gate and marking speed calming islands
- Municipalities and public spaces: separating cycle lanes, taxi lanes and painted traffic islands
Local tips for Durban
Asked for most in Durban: marine grade beachfront posts, truck protection at depots, shopfront bollards. Where the installers and yards are: jacobs, Mobeni and Prospecton, Springfield Park, Umgeni Road and the N2 corridor. A useful tip: ask whether the steel is 316 stainless or galvanised, and how it is sealed against spray.
Around Durban the largest group asking is warehouses, factories and depots, which usually means marking truck routes and keep-clear zones in yards where hits are common. Before you agree to anything: guides traffic, does not stop a vehicle. Getting units there: crane trucks run from the south basin to most of the metro within a day.
Service area: Durban and surrounds
Requests from Durban go to suppliers and installers that already serve Umhlanga, Pinetown, Westville, Umlazi, Phoenix, Chatsworth, Berea and the rest of the area. Say whether you need supply only or supply and install, and whether a site visit suits you.