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Wooden Bollards in Johannesburg
Need wooden bollards in Johannesburg? Say the number of posts, the diameter and height above ground, the treatment and whether you want reflectors. Timber suppliers and installers near Johannesburg can quote for the poles, delivery and setting them in.
New to this? Read the wooden bollards guide for the choices and the points worth checking before you order.
Johannesburg notes on bollard types
Galvanised and powder coated steel pipe posts are the workhorse on Johannesburg sidewalks, often concrete filled and painted black or charcoal for the CBD and Newtown. Precast domes and squat cylinders suit taxi rank edges and parking lots in Soweto, where a few heavy units are easier to replace after a hit. Stainless steel shows up at office entrances in Rosebank and Parktown, and lit bollards mark complex driveways where street lights fail during load-shedding.
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.
Typical wooden bollards requests in the area come from:
- Shops, malls and petrol stations: farm stalls and padstal parking where steel would look out of place
- Warehouses, factories and depots: marking haul road edges and yard boundaries on rural sites
- Municipalities and public spaces: park edges, picnic sites and beach parking above the dunes
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.
Wooden Bollards usually suit lodges, parks, wine farms, beach parking. The fixing: set in compacted soil, gravel or concrete. For shops, malls and petrol stations, the biggest group here, that usually means farm stalls and padstal parking where steel would look out of place. On the ground and weather: summer storms and hail from October to March; rocky ridges in the north and west.
Service area: Johannesburg and surrounds
Our network covers Johannesburg together with Sandton, Randburg, Roodepoort, Soweto, Rosebank, Fourways, Melville. The length, the ground and the address help a timber pole supplier work out the job, the footings and the delivery before quoting.