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Security Doors in Pietermaritzburg
Security doors in Pietermaritzburg are mostly ordered for front and kitchen doors of houses, for flats and townhouses with a single entrance, and for shops that need a steel back door. Give the opening sizes, the style and the finish so manufacturers and installers serving Pietermaritzburg and the rest of KwaZulu-Natal can quote accurately.
Want to know more first? Our security doors guide covers the options, what to check and what affects the price.
Security doors, gates and bars in Pietermaritzburg
Pietermaritzburg has many older face-brick homes with steel windows and wooden doors in Scottsville, Clarendon and Hayfields, together with townhouse complexes, student flats and schools. Wooden frames and old plaster call for longer fixings and careful drilling, and steel security doors suit the older entrances. The city sits in a warm hollow with humid summers and hard storms, so painted steel needs a zinc primer to resist rust. Farms and smallholdings around Hilton, Howick and the Midlands often fit heavier bars and steel doors on stores. Fabricators work from Willowton, Mkondeni and Pietermaritzburg's industrial zones, and also serve Edendale and Imbali.
Typical security doors requests in the area come from:
- Houses: a security door at the front and kitchen doors, burglar bars on the windows and a gate on the patio slider
- Townhouses and complexes: a trellis or slamlock gate in the colour the body corporate allows, and clear bars on ground-floor windows
- Flats and apartments: one strong gate at the front door and bars on windows that face a walkway or balcony
- Schools, clinics and churches: bulk doors, gates and bars for classrooms, clinics and halls, often to a tender specification
- Farms and smallholdings: heavy steel doors on the house and store rooms, and strong bars on windows far from the neighbours
- Shops and restaurants: folding gates over the shopfront, a steel back door and bars on the storeroom window
- Factories and warehouses: double steel doors, slamlock gates on stores and heavy bars on offices and ablutions
Local tips for Pietermaritzburg
Common here: steel security doors for older homes, trellis doors, bars for schools and clinics. Ask each installer to allow for this: ask how the frame is fixed on old houses, as soft plaster can crumble. Work usually comes from here: fabricators in Willowton, Mkondeni and Camps Drift.
Security Doors are usually made in mild steel tube, 16 mm bars, steel kick panel, most doors 813 to 1,000 mm x 2,100 mm, with lock box with a 3-lever or cylinder lock and powder coat, galvanised underneath on the coast. Locally: hot humid summers and old plaster: use long fixings into sound brick.
What to include in your request
- Width and height of each opening in mm, smallest of three measurements
- Style: hinged steel, trellis, slamlock or sliding
- Inside the reveal or fixed to the face of the wall
- Colour and finish, and whether you are near the sea
- Wall type and whether an old gate must be removed
The more detail you give, the more accurate your quote will be.
Service area: Pietermaritzburg and surrounds
Manufacturers, installers and locksmiths on our network work in Pietermaritzburg and surrounding areas, including Edendale, Imbali, Scottsville, Hilton, Howick, Hayfields, Northdale. Give the suburb so the quote can include travel, and say how soon you need the work done.