Phoning around Cape Town 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 bricklayers and building teams who work in Cape Town and nearby areas of Western Cape.
Bricklayers in Cape Town
Need a bricklayer in Cape Town? Give the wall lengths and heights, single or double skin, face brick or plaster brick, and whether you buy the materials. Say if it is a new house in Western Cape, so the bricklayers know whether an NHBRC registered builder is involved.
Want to know more first? Our bricklayers guide covers the types, the sizes and what affects the price.
Supplies & services in Cape Town: local notes
Bricklayers and paving contractors are spread across the metro, from boundary walls in Mitchells Plain to driveways in Durbanville and Constantia. Cape Flats sand is plentiful, but it is often fine and needs care in mortar and bricks, so ask the yard which sand suits which job. Fire bricks for braais, pizza ovens and fireplaces are easy to find, and glass blocks appear in older Atlantic seaboard flats.
Cape Town: the building, the weather and the yards
Winter rain is what Cape Town brickmakers plan around. From May to August, cold fronts can soak fresh bricks for days, while the summer south-easter dries them too fast, so yards cover rows in both seasons. Cement blocks and maxi bricks dominate, building new rooms and backyard units in Khayelitsha, Mitchells Plain, Delft and Gugulethu, while face brick and stock bricks go into homes and complexes in the northern and southern suburbs. Block yards and stores cluster in Epping, Montague Gardens and Philippi, sand comes from the Cape Flats and pits around the city, and salt air on the Atlantic seaboard and False Bay coast causes efflorescence on face brick.
Who asks for bricklayers around Cape Town, most often first:
- Homeowners: a bricklayer for a boundary wall, a garage or an extra room at the back
- Builders and bricklaying contractors: extra bricklaying teams taken on per m² when a site falls behind
- Housing developers and complexes: bricklaying crews quoted per unit across a phase of townhouses or RDP houses
Local tips for Cape Town
Yards and suppliers serving Cape Town mostly work from here: block yards and stores in Epping, Montague Gardens, Philippi and Parow. The requests that come up most: cement blocks and maxi bricks for backyard rooms, face brick for suburbs. When you ask for quotes, ask whether bricks were cured under cover during the winter rains.
Bricklayers usually suit house walls, boundary walls and extensions, made or supplied like this: laid to a string line with 10 mm joints. For homeowners, the biggest group here, that usually means a bricklayer for a boundary wall, a garage or an extra room at the back. On the weather side: winter rain soaks fresh bricks; the summer south-easter dries them too fast.
Service area: Cape Town and surrounds
Requests from Cape Town go to yards and suppliers that already deliver to Century City, Woodstock, Epping, Montague Gardens, Paarden Eiland, Claremont, Salt River and the rest of the area. Mention a narrow street, a steep site or an estate with delivery hours, because they change the price.