Phoning around for window burglar bars in Cape Town takes time, and every company asks the same questions. Send one measuring sheet instead and we pass it to burglar bar 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.
Window Burglar Bars in Cape Town
Window burglar bars in Cape Town are most often ordered for steel and aluminium house windows, bathroom and toilet vents, and flat windows on the ground floor. Send the window sizes and frame type so burglar bar installers who work in Cape Town and across Western Cape can quote you directly.
Want to know more first? Our window burglar bars 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 window burglar bars requests in the area come from:
- Houses: bars on every window, with a hinged or quick-release panel in each bedroom
- Flats and apartments: bars on ground-floor and balcony windows, with an escape window in each bedroom
- Townhouses and complexes: slim bars in the complex colour, kept inside the reveal where rules allow
- Shops and restaurants: bars on side and rear windows and on storeroom openings
- Factories and warehouses: heavy frames over office, canteen and stores windows
- Offices and practices: window bars fitted in a neat style for ground-floor offices and archive rooms
- Schools, clinics and churches: bars on ground-floor windows with release panels to meet escape rules
- Farms and smallholdings: stout galvanised bars on old steel windows of farmhouses and stores
Local tips for Cape Town
Common here: powder-coated clear bars and security gates, steel doors and heavy gates in industry. Ask each installer to allow for this: check heritage overlay and body corporate rules before ordering new front gates. Work usually comes from here: fabricators in Epping, Montague Gardens and Paarden Eiland.
Window Burglar Bars are usually made in steel tube frame with 12 or 16 mm solid bars, most windows 600 to 1,800 mm wide, with fixed, or hinged with an inside latch or lock and powder coat over galvanised steel. Locally: salt air and south-easter wind: galvanised or powder-coated, stainless fixings.
What to include in your request
- Width and height of every window in mm
- Which windows open outwards and which way
- Which bedroom windows need a quick-release panel
- Bar pattern and spacing you prefer
- Frame type and wall finish around the window
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.