Phoning around Newcastle 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 Newcastle and nearby areas of KwaZulu-Natal.
Bricklayers in Newcastle
Need a bricklayer in Newcastle? 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 KwaZulu-Natal, so the bricklayers know whether an NHBRC registered builder is involved.
New to this? Read the bricklayers guide for the choices and the points worth checking before you pay.
Supplies & services in Newcastle: local notes
Bricklayers in Newcastle quote for everything from a single room in Osizweni to farm sheds near Charlestown. Paving contractors lay driveways and shop yards in town. River and pit sand is delivered by tipper from around the district. Fire bricks are useful in this cold area for fireplaces and coal stoves, laid with refractory mortar. Machine repairs and motor rewinds are available in the industrial area.
Bricks, blocks and brick making in Newcastle
Coal and steel country in northern KwaZulu-Natal has a long history of brickmaking, and Newcastle sits right in it. Madadeni and Osizweni grow by the street, with new rooms, family houses and boundary walls built in cement blocks and maxi bricks, while the older town has many face brick homes. The town gets cold, frosty winters and hard summer thunderstorms, so fresh cement bricks need covering in both seasons. Block yards, hardware stores and small backyard brickmakers supply most jobs, and engineering workshops in the industrial area can repair machines. Deliveries to farms around Utrecht and Dannhauser take a little longer, so plan loads ahead and check the farm road.
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 Newcastle
Common here: maxi bricks and blocks for rooms and houses, clay bricks for face work. Ask each supplier or contractor about this: ask whether the yard covers curing bricks on frosty nights. Where they work from: yards and stores in town and the industrial area, small yards in the townships.
Around Newcastle the largest group asking is homeowners, which usually means a bricklayer for a boundary wall, a garage or an extra room at the back. Before you agree to anything: new houses need an NHBRC registered builder. Getting stock here: bricks by truck from local yards; sand from rivers and pits nearby.
Service area: Newcastle and surrounds
Requests from Newcastle go to yards and suppliers that already deliver to Madadeni, Osizweni, Blaauwbosch, Utrecht, Dannhauser, Charlestown and the rest of the area. Mention a narrow street, a steep site or an estate with delivery hours, because they change the price.