# Surface-mount bollards

> Bolt-down bollards for slabs you can’t dig into: base plate sizes, anchor holes, and where surface mounting is (and isn’t) enough. Plus how flexible bollards anchor to asphalt and concrete.

Canonical: https://safetybollards.ca/installation/surface-mount-bollards
Last updated: 2026-10-26

A surface-mount bollard bolts to the slab through a base plate. It’s quick, needs no digging and suits parkade decks and finished floors, but it holds far less than a post set in a footing.

## What’s published

| Product | Base | Anchors |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Post Guard BDB6, 6 in bolt-down | 10 × 12 in base plate | Four ¾ in corner holes (anchor type not on the sheet) |
| Proguard Pacific surface mount, 4.5 × 48 in | Bolt-down base | Not on the product page |
| Develotech Cyclo-Zone flexible bollard | Flexible base | Asphalt: four ¾ × 4 in holes with Bitu-Link epoxy, 24 h cure. Concrete: four ½ × 1¾ in holes with drop-in anchors |
| Impact Recovery Systems tubular bollard (Toronto TS 780) | Surface-mount base | Four 15.9 × 76.2 mm holes in concrete, plastic sleeves and lag screws |

## When it’s enough

- Marking a walkway or a parking edge, guiding traffic, light knocks.
- Slabs you can’t core: parkade decks, slabs with in-floor heat or post-tension cables, tenant spaces where the landlord won’t allow it.
- A shallow-mount crash-rated system, where the maker has tested exactly that mounting.

## When it isn’t

A plain base plate on four anchors can shear off under a car that a cored or embedded post would stop. In front of glass, people or gas meters, use a [core-drilled](https://safetybollards.ca/installation/core-drilled-bollards) or [embedded](https://safetybollards.ca/installation/embedded-bollards) bollard, or a rated shallow system.

## Sources

1. [Post Guard, BDB6 6 in bolt-down bollard spec sheet (PDF, via Sure Guard)](https://www.sureguard.ca/catalog/view/theme/postguard2021/pdf/6in%20Bolt%20Down%20Bollard-new.pdf) (checked 2026-10-26)
2. [Proguard Pacific, surface-mount bollard 4.5 in × 48 in](https://proguardpacific.ca/product/bollard-surface-mount-4-5-dia-x-48-tall-yellow/) (checked 2026-10-26)
3. [Develotech, Cyclo-Zone bicycle path flexible bollard](https://www.develotech.com/en/bicycle-path-flexible-bollard/) (checked 2026-10-26)
4. [City of Toronto, TS 780 construction specification for flexible bicycle bollards (PDF, 2026)](https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/9830-ecs-specs-roadspecs-TS-780-Sep2026.pdf) (checked 2026-10-26)
5. [Gibraltar, Ultra-shallow bollards](https://www.gibraltarperimetersecurity.com/ultra-shallow-bollards/) (checked 2026-10-26)

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## Related

- [Surface-mount vs embedded bollards](https://safetybollards.ca/vs/surface-mount-vs-embedded-bollards)
- [Flexible bollards](https://safetybollards.ca/flexible-bollards)
- [Steel bollards](https://safetybollards.ca/steel-bollards)
- [Installing bollards in existing concrete](https://safetybollards.ca/installation/core-drilled-bollards)