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Concrete, steel, stainless, timber and flexible bollards, bollard lights and decorative posts; security, anti-ram, retractable, removable and fold-down bollards; installation and repairs, boom gates, speed humps, road barriers, guardrails and cones. Send one request and suppliers and installers in your area quote you directly.

A row of steel bollards with reflective bands along a paved shopping centre forecourt, with precast concrete bollards near the entrance

Setting-out notes: before you ask for quotesBC-IDX-654, rev B

Start with
1The length to protect and what is behind it
Then
2The ground: paving, tar, slab or soil
Stop or guide
3Stopping a car needs a proper footing
Spacing
4About 1.2 m clear lets people through
Before you dig
5Services under the ground, and a wayleave

Bollards.co.za is a free quote service for bollards in South Africa. Whether it is two posts to stop people parking across your driveway, a row of precast bollards for a shopping centre, crash-rated protection for a cash centre, a boom gate for a complex, posts that keep forklifts off the racking, or cones and barriers for road works, one request reaches the suppliers and installers near you.

How it works

Fill in the site plan at the bottom of the page. For a line of bollards, give the length to protect, the spacing and how the posts will be fixed, and the plan draws the line to scale, counts the posts and gives a rough time on site. For an entrance, give the openings and their width, and it works out the posts, boom gates or hump length. For repairs and cones, just say how many. We send your request to suppliers and installers who work in your area, and they quote you directly. It costs you nothing.

Everything we take requests for

From two driveway posts in Randburg and a line of precast bollards along a Durban beachfront walkway, to ram-raid protection for a row of shops in Polokwane, yellow steel posts at the racking ends of a Germiston warehouse, a boom gate and speed humps for a complex in Centurion, timber posts along a game lodge parking in the Lowveld, stainless bollards at the coast in Gqeberha, guardrails on a farm road near Bethlehem or 300 cones and jersey barriers for road works outside Kimberley.

Getting quotes you can compare

Two quotes for "ten bollards" can be very different jobs. Say what you are protecting and from what, the length or the openings, the ground (paving, tar, slab or soil), and whether you want supply only or supply and install. Then check that each quote states the post size and material, the finish, the footing depth and concrete, how existing paving is broken out and reinstated, who checks for services, whether a wayleave is needed, delivery and crane costs, and the guarantee.

Frequently asked questions

Does Bollards.co.za make or install bollards?
No. We are a free quote service. You send one request and we pass it to independent bollard suppliers and installers, precast yards, steel fabricators, gate and barrier installers and traffic safety suppliers who work in your area. They contact you directly with a price, and you are under no obligation to accept any of them.
Will a bollard stop a car?
Only if it is built and founded for it. A steel or concrete post set deep in a proper concrete footing stops a car at low speed; a crash-rated bollard is tested to stop a given vehicle at a given speed, but only as installed to its drawing. Plastic and flexible posts, surface-bolted posts and most decorative bollards guide and deter rather than stop.
How far apart should bollards be?
Many designers leave a clear gap of about 1.2 m, which stops cars but lets pedestrians, prams and wheelchairs through. Where small cars or motorcycles must be kept out, the gap is closer. The count is the length divided by the centre spacing, plus one: the site plan on this page works it out for you.
Can bollards go into existing paving or concrete?
Yes. Installers break out paving and cast a footing, or core drill an existing slab with a diamond bit and set the post in grout or resin. Check the slab thickness and what runs underneath first. See bollard installation.

Free quote request, no obligation

Request bollard quotes

Draw up the site plan the way an installer would: what you are protecting, the length or the openings, the ground, where you are and how soon. Suppliers and installers in your area quote you directly.

Site planBollards
Request
No. 50329
Rev
A, for quote
Drawn
2026-11-13

1The job

2Set out the line (optional, it helps the quote)

Plan view: the lineN ↑

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Estimate
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A rule of thumb, not a quote.

3Stage, ground and timing

4Your list (optional)

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Up to 12 lines: posts, lights, gates, humps, barriers or cones.
Needs and options

5Your details

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