Commercial Bike Racks & Bollards

Bollards for public spaces come in three formats, and they are not interchangeable. A fixed post — a steel tube bolted to a base plate or embedded in a footing — draws a permanent line where vehicles must not go. A removable post lifts out of a ground socket, so the same opening still takes a service van or an ambulance. A belt-barrier post carries a retractable cassette, which lets one line of posts be opened and shut through the day. The format follows the traffic decision, not the design: if nothing but a pedestrian ever passes, a fixed post is the cheapest obstruction; if a maintenance crew must reach the square, the post has to move.

Stated plainly, because a wrong assumption here is expensive: our catalogue carries two bollards, and both are belt-and-rope formats rather than fixed posts — the Guardian Belt Barrier (H 950 mm, base Ø 360 mm) and the Guardian Rope Post (H 1000 mm, base 350 × 350 mm). Both are built for line marking, queue guidance and separating pedestrian areas from service traffic. Neither is certified to a vehicle impact rating.

That is the honest boundary of the product. Where the brief is genuine vehicle impact protection — a secured perimeter, a kerb line with a vehicular threat — specify a post that holds a published vehicle-impact test certificate to the relevant standard, from a manufacturer that issues the report. What our posts do well is the everyday job: reading as a boundary, carrying a belt or rope line, and standing up to weather in galvanized or stainless finishes.

Bollard height and spacing are decided by the line the posts have to draw, not by the catalogue: height sets how clearly a row reads from a driver's eye level, and spacing follows the widest gap the site must still admit — a service bay, an ambulance route, a delivery window. The table below lines the three formats up against those two decisions, with the heights and base dimensions of the posts we actually build.