Phoning around for steel security doors in Cape Town takes time, and every company asks the same questions. Send one measuring sheet instead and we pass it to security door manufacturers and installers who serve Cape Town and nearby areas of Western Cape. They quote on the steel, the lock, the finish, fitting and how soon they can start.
Steel Security Doors in Cape Town
Steel security doors in Cape Town are ordered mostly for back doors, side entrances, garages and shop storerooms. Send the opening size, infill type and finish so fabricators serving Cape Town and the rest of Western Cape can quote like for like.
Want to know more first? Our steel security doors guide covers the options, what to check and what affects the price.
Security doors, gates and bars in Cape Town
Cape Town has an enormous variety of buildings: Victorian terraces in Woodstock and Salt River, face-brick suburban houses in Claremont and Bellville, flats along the Atlantic seaboard, townhouse estates and the informal and formal areas of the Cape Flats. Salt air and strong south-easterly winds corrode steel on the coast, so galvanised or powder-coated doors and bars with stainless fixings make sense, and heritage areas may restrict what can go on the front of a house. Industrial users in Montague Gardens, Epping and Paarden Eiland order heavy gates and steel doors. Fabricators work from these industrial areas and across the metro.
Typical steel security doors requests in the area come from:
- Houses: a mesh-topped steel door on the back and side doors where a light gate would not last
- Flats and apartments: a robust door on a ground-floor entrance or a stairwell landing
- Townhouses and complexes: a steel door on a ground-floor patio entrance, in colours the body corporate allows
- Shops and restaurants: a solid or mesh steel door at the staff entrance and the storeroom
- Factories and warehouses: heavy plate-skinned doors for plant rooms, stores and loading bays
- Offices and practices: a steel door for the server room, archive or cash office
- Schools, clinics and churches: bulk steel doors for classrooms, stores and clinic pharmacies
- Farms and smallholdings: heavy steel doors on the farmhouse, workshop, feed store and chemical room
Local tips for Cape Town
In Cape Town, what people fit most is this: powder-coated clear bars and security gates, steel doors and heavy gates in industry. Makers and installers: fabricators in Epping, Montague Gardens and Paarden Eiland. A useful tip: check heritage overlay and body corporate rules before ordering new front gates.
Steel Security Doors are usually made in 40 x 40 mm tube frame, 2 mm kick panel, mesh, up to 1,200 x 2,400 mm per leaf, with deadbolt or multi-point lock, keyed both sides and galvanised, then powder coat. Locally: salt air and south-easter wind: galvanised or powder-coated, stainless fixings.
What to include in your request
- Width and height of the opening in mm, smallest of three readings
- Infill: bars, expanded mesh or fully solid
- Frame tube size and plate thickness if you know them
- Lock type, and whether it must open without a key from inside
- Wall type, colour and distance from the sea
The more detail you give, the more accurate your quote will be.
Service area: Cape Town and surrounds
Manufacturers, installers and locksmiths on our network work in Cape Town and surrounding areas, including Century City, Woodstock, Epping, Montague Gardens, Paarden Eiland, Claremont, Salt River. Give the suburb so the quote can include travel, and say how soon you need the work done.