Phoning around for steel doors and frames in Pietermaritzburg takes time, and every company asks the same questions. Send one measuring sheet instead and we pass it to steel door suppliers and installers who serve Pietermaritzburg and nearby areas of KwaZulu-Natal. They quote on the steel, the lock, the finish, fitting and how soon they can start.
Steel Doors and Frames in Pietermaritzburg
Solid steel doors in Pietermaritzburg are ordered mostly for garages, workshops, storerooms and plant rooms, and for staff entrances on shops. Send the opening size, the number of leaves and the wall type so suppliers serving Pietermaritzburg and the rest of KwaZulu-Natal can quote like for like.
Want to know more first? Our steel doors and frames 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 steel doors and frames requests in the area come from:
- Houses: a solid steel door on the garage, laundry or a granny flat entrance
- Townhouses and complexes: a steel door to a garage or a bin store, painted to suit the complex
- Flats and apartments: a steel door for a meter room, a storeroom or a refuse area
- Schools, clinics and churches: fire-rated and plain steel doors for plant rooms, stores and kitchens
- Farms and smallholdings: steel doors on workshops, chemical stores, feed rooms and pump houses
- Shops and restaurants: a solid steel staff door and storeroom door
- Factories and warehouses: double steel doors on plant rooms, stores, boiler rooms and workshops
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.
Steel Doors and Frames are usually made in 1.2 mm steel skin door, 1.6 mm pressed frame, single 813 to 1,000 mm, double up to 1,800 mm, with mortice lock, deadlock or multi-point lock and primed, then enamel or powder coat. Locally: hot humid summers and old plaster: use long fixings into sound brick.
What to include in your request
- Opening width and height in mm, and wall thickness
- Single or double leaf, and which way it opens
- Build-in or retrofit frame, and the wall type
- Lock, handle and closer you need
- Louvre, fire rating or weather seal required
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.