Phoning around Johannesburg 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 Johannesburg and nearby areas of Gauteng.
Bricklayers in Johannesburg
Need a bricklayer in Johannesburg? 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 Gauteng, 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.
Johannesburg notes on supplies & services
Bricklayers in Soweto and Eldorado Park usually quote per 1,000 bricks laid or per room, and many bring their own mixer. Sand comes by tipper from pits south of the city, so ask whether the price is for plaster sand or building sand and whether it is a full 6 m³ load. Paving contractors work steadily in Diepkloof and Pimville on driveways, and repairers in Booysens rebuild worn moulds and motors.
Johannesburg: the building, the weather and the yards
Soweto sets the pace for brick demand in Johannesburg. Across Orlando, Diepkloof, Meadowlands and Protea Glen, families add backyard rooms, second storeys and boundary walls one pallet at a time, and small block yards on open stands make cement bricks to order for the street. Further north, older suburbs like Melville, Westdene and Kensington call for matching red face brick when a stoep is closed in or a garage is added. Along the Main Reef Road and in Booysens and City Deep, yards and hardware stores sit near the old mine dumps, close to most of the city. Highveld winters bring frost on still mornings, so fresh cement bricks need covering, and summer storms can wash out a slab of uncured bricks in minutes.
Typical bricklayers requests in the area come from:
- 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
- Brickyards and block yards: a yard pointing its customers to bricklayers who know how its bricks lay
Local tips for Johannesburg
Common here: cement maxi bricks for backyard rooms, face brick to match older suburbs. Ask each supplier or contractor about this: ask the yard whether the bricks were cured a full week before they left the slab. Where they work from: block yards in Soweto, yards and hardware stores along Main Reef Road and in Booysens.
Requests range widely: per m², per 1,000 bricks laid or per day. Here, homeowners lead the requests, typically for a bricklayer for a boundary wall, a garage or an extra room at the back. One local point to raise: yards spread through the city; tippers bring sand from pits south and west of town.
Service area: Johannesburg and surrounds
Suppliers and contractors on our network work in Johannesburg and surrounding areas, including Sandton, Randburg, Roodepoort, Soweto, Rosebank, Fourways, Melville. Give the suburb or township and whether a big truck can get in, so the quote can allow for delivery and offloading.