Need plastic bollards in Gauteng? Bollards.co.za puts homeowners, businesses and public bodies in Gauteng in touch with traffic safety and bollard suppliers 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.
Plastic and Flexible Bollards in Gauteng
Looking for plastic or flexible bollards in Gauteng? 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 Gauteng can then quote.
New to this? Read the plastic bollards guide for the choices and the points worth checking before you order.
Bollard types in Gauteng: local notes
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.
Sites and streets 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 plastic bollards requests in the area come from:
- Estates, complexes and body corporates: splitting visitor and resident lanes at the gate and marking speed calming islands
- Homeowners: a flexible post marking the edge of a narrow driveway or a garden bed
- Shops, malls and petrol stations: drive-through lanes, parcel collection bays and car park islands
Local tips for Gauteng
Asked for most in Gauteng: ram-raid posts for shopfronts, complex boom gates, forklift posts in logistics parks. Where the installers and yards are: wadeville, Isando, Kya Sand, Rosslyn, Silverton, City Deep and Midrand. A useful tip: ask whether the quote covers a dolomite check or a cable scan before any digging.
Sizes vary: often 450 to 1,000 mm high. Here, estates, complexes and body corporates lead the requests, typically for splitting visitor and resident lanes at the gate and marking speed calming islands. 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.