Phoning around Durban for the right supplier or team at a fair price takes time. Send one request instead, with what you need and how much, and we pass it to brick suppliers and contractors who work in Durban and nearby areas of KwaZulu-Natal.
Brick Suppliers in Durban
Looking for brick suppliers in Durban? Say which bricks or blocks you need, how many, the delivery address and whether a crane truck can reach the spot. Yards and merchants that deliver around Durban, KwaZulu-Natal can then quote a delivered price and a date.
Want to know more first? Our brick suppliers guide covers the types, the sizes and what affects the price.
Durban notes on supplies & services
Bricklayers and paving contractors work right across the metro, from driveways in Durban North and Westville to retaining walls on the steep plots of Chatsworth and Shallcross. Plaster sand and building sand usually arrive by tipper from pits and quarries inland. Fire bricks for braais and pizza ovens are easy to find, and glass blocks turn up in bathroom panels in older flats. Repairers can rewind vibrator motors and rebuild worn moulds in the industrial areas around Jacobs and Mobeni.
Durban: the building, the weather and the yards
Humidity is the first thing a Durban builder plans around. Cement bricks and blocks cure slowly in the damp, sticky air, and summer downpours can wash out a fresh slab of bricks in an afternoon, so yards cover their rows and keep stock on pallets longer. Most of the metro builds in cement blocks and maxi bricks: extensions in Chatsworth and Phoenix, new rooms and boundary walls in Umlazi and KwaMashu, and complexes going up around Umhlanga and Cornubia. Face brick near the beachfront and the Bluff often shows white efflorescence from the salt air, and steel on brick machines rusts quickly. Block yards sit along the industrial belts in Jacobs, Prospecton and Riverhorse Valley, and tippers bring sand in from inland.
Who asks for brick suppliers around Durban, most often first:
- Homeowners: one delivered load of bricks for an extension, a garage or a boundary wall
- Builders and bricklaying contractors: regular pallets of stock bricks and blocks delivered to several sites a month
- Housing developers and complexes: large phased orders of one brick for a complex or a housing estate
Local tips for Durban
Yards and suppliers serving Durban mostly work from here: block yards in Jacobs, Prospecton and Riverhorse Valley, sand yards inland. The requests that come up most: cement blocks and maxi bricks for extensions, boundary walls and complexes. When you ask for quotes, ask how long the bricks were cured and whether they were kept covered in the rain.
Around Durban the largest group asking is homeowners, which usually means one delivered load of bricks for an extension, a garage or a boundary wall. Before you agree to anything: ask for MPa and SANS 1215 or SANS 227 tests. Getting stock here: tipper sand from inland pits and quarries; bricks by flatbed with crane.
Service area: Durban and surrounds
Our network covers Durban together with Umhlanga, Pinetown, Westville, Umlazi, Phoenix, Chatsworth, Berea. A street address helps a supplier work out the delivery before quoting.