Phoning around Midrand 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 Midrand and nearby areas of Gauteng.
Bricklayers in Midrand
Need a bricklayer in Midrand? 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.
What to know locally in Midrand
Bricklayers in Midrand are often booked by developers for months, so homeowners in Carlswald and Glen Austin should ask for a start date early. Paving contractors lay driveways and complex roads in herringbone pattern, and sand comes by tipper from pits west of the N1. Interlocking bricks are asked for on smallholdings around Blue Hills, and machine repairers in Olifantsfontein handle motors and moulds.
Midrand: the building, the weather and the yards
Halfway between Johannesburg and Pretoria, Midrand has grown on the open land along the N1, and much of the building is new: estates in Waterfall, Kyalami and Carlswald, rows of sectional title complexes in Noordwyk and Vorna Valley, and office and logistics parks near Allandale Road. To the east, Ivory Park, Ebony Park and Rabie Ridge add rooms and rental units in cement bricks bought from small yards or made on the stand. Developers order face brick and plaster bricks in bulk, so ask about the full order up front for colour. Yards sit around Olifantsfontein, Kaalfontein and Halfway House. The ridges catch wind that dries fresh bricks fast in spring, and summer storms here can be violent.
Who asks for bricklayers around Midrand, most often first:
- Housing developers and complexes: bricklaying crews quoted per unit across a phase of townhouses or RDP houses
- Builders and bricklaying contractors: extra bricklaying teams taken on per m² when a site falls behind
- Homeowners: a bricklayer for a boundary wall, a garage or an extra room at the back
Local tips for Midrand
Yards and suppliers serving Midrand mostly work from here: yards around Olifantsfontein, Kaalfontein and Halfway House, off the N1 and R562. The requests that come up most: bulk face and plaster bricks for complexes, cement bricks in Ivory Park. When you ask for quotes, ask the yard to hold one batch number for the whole job when ordering face brick.
Requests range widely: per m², per 1,000 bricks laid or per day. Here, housing developers and complexes lead the requests, typically for bricklaying crews quoted per unit across a phase of townhouses or RDP houses. One local point to raise: trucks run from yards on the N1 corridor; sand by tipper from pits to the west.
Service area: Midrand and surrounds
Suppliers and contractors on our network work in Midrand and surrounding areas, including Waterfall, Kyalami, Halfway House, Vorna Valley, Carlswald, Noordwyk, Glen Austin. Give the suburb or township and whether a big truck can get in, so the quote can allow for delivery and offloading.