Phoning around Northern Cape 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 towns and cities across Northern Cape.
Brick Suppliers in Northern Cape
Looking for brick suppliers in Northern Cape? 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 Northern Cape, Northern Cape can then quote a delivered price and a date.
The main brick suppliers page explains the options, the standards and the costs in more detail.
What to know locally in Northern Cape
Bricklayers in Kimberley, Upington and Kathu quote per square metre or per 1,000 bricks laid, and on farms the team is often booked for a full job with lodging. Sand along the Orange and Vaal rivers near Upington and Douglas is used for bricks and plaster. Fire bricks are needed for farm boilers and mine kilns, and repairs to machines in remote towns usually mean posting the parts.
Building with brick in Northern Cape
Distance is part of the price of every brick in the Northern Cape. Kimberley and Upington have the bigger yards, but a farmhouse near Carnarvon or a school extension in Pofadder may be hundreds of kilometres from the nearest pallet, so many towns make their own cement bricks locally with a small machine and Orange River or pit sand. Mining towns such as Kathu, Postmasburg and Kuruman add rented housing and new extensions, and the Karoo towns of De Aar and Colesberg build farm sheds, dams and kraals. Kimberley's older suburbs still have red face brick to match. Fierce sun and dry wind crack fresh bricks, and the Karoo gets hard winter frost.
Typical brick suppliers requests in the area come from:
- Farms and smallholdings: bricks and blocks trucked out to a farm for stores, staff houses and kraals
- Homeowners: one delivered load of bricks for an extension, a garage or a boundary wall
- New brick-making businesses: a new block yard checking what nearby suppliers charge before setting its prices
Local tips for Northern Cape
Most asked for in Northern Cape: locally made cement bricks, farm shed blocks, housing in the mining towns. Where the yards and suppliers are: yards in Kimberley, Upington and Kathu; small local yards in most towns. A useful tip: ask for a full load price delivered to the farm, not a per pallet price at the yard.
Around Northern Cape the largest group asking is farms and smallholdings, which usually means bricks and blocks trucked out to a farm for stores, staff houses and kraals. Before you agree to anything: ask for MPa and SANS 1215 or SANS 227 tests. Getting stock here: long hauls on the N8, N10 and N14; many towns make bricks with local sand.
Service area: Northern Cape and surrounds
Suppliers and contractors on our network work throughout Northern Cape, including Kimberley, Upington, Kathu, Kuruman, Springbok, De Aar, Postmasburg. For farms and smaller towns, ask whether delivery is in the price and how far the truck travels.