Phoning around Sasolburg 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 Sasolburg and nearby areas of Free State.
Bricklayers in Sasolburg
Need a bricklayer in Sasolburg? 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 Free State, so the bricklayers know whether an NHBRC registered builder is involved.
The main bricklayers page explains the options, the standards and the costs in more detail.
Supplies & services in Sasolburg: local notes
Bricklayers in Sasolburg also work across the Vaal, quoting per square metre or per 1,000 bricks laid. Sand comes by tipper from pits along the Vaal River, so ask whether it suits plaster, mortar or brick making. Paving contractors lay driveways in Vaalpark. Fire bricks go into boilers and braais, and repairers cover yards from Zamdela to Coalbrook.
Sasolburg: the building, the weather and the yards
Petrochemical plants on the Vaal shape Sasolburg's building trade. Contractors need blocks for workshops, stores and boundary walls, and the town's suburbs and Vaalpark add rooms, garages and paving. Zamdela grows with family houses and backyard rooms in cement bricks, and small yards there sell off the slab. Holiday homes around the Vaal Dam at Deneysville call for face bricks, paving and retaining walls near the water. Being close to Vereeniging and Vanderbijlpark means a wide choice of brickyards, block yards and machine sellers within easy reach. The southern Highveld frost and big summer storms are the main risks to curing bricks, and ash is used by some yards in the region.
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 Sasolburg
Most asked for in Sasolburg: blocks for plant contractors, maxi bricks for Zamdela, paving in Vaalpark. Where the yards and suppliers are: yards in Sasolburg and the wider Vaal, including Vereeniging and Vanderbijlpark. A useful tip: ask Vaal yards for a delivered price to Sasolburg, Zamdela or Deneysville.
Around Sasolburg 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: vaal yards deliver by truck; sand comes from pits along the Vaal River.
Service area: Sasolburg and surrounds
Suppliers and contractors on our network work in Sasolburg and surrounding areas, including Zamdela, Vaalpark, Deneysville, Vanderbijlpark, Vereeniging, Coalbrook. Give the suburb or township and whether a big truck can get in, so the quote can allow for delivery and offloading.