Compare the strength, the price per thousand and the delivery before you pay. A free request for bricks in Bloemfontein goes to a supplier serving Bloemfontein and nearby areas of Free State, and you see the offers side by side.
Bricks in Bloemfontein
Bricks in Bloemfontein: say the brick type (cement, clay stock or face), the number or the wall size, and the delivery address. Brickyards serving Bloemfontein, Free State can quote per 1,000 delivered and say how soon a truck can come and whether it can offload with a crane.
Want to know more first? Our bricks guide covers the types, the sizes and what affects the price.
What to know locally in Bloemfontein
Estates in Langenhoven Park and around Bainsvlei mostly build in face brick with pavers for driveways. In Mangaung and Heidedal, extensions and rental rooms go up in cement maxi bricks or blocks. Botshabelo and Thaba Nchu families build with 140 mm blocks from local yards. Older Brandwag homes have face brick that can be hard to match, so take a sample.
Bricks, blocks and brick making in Bloemfontein
Frost is a winter fact of life for Bloemfontein builders, and the city has a big, steady brick trade. Suburbs such as Langenhoven Park, Brandwag and the estates around Bainsvlei add homes, townhouses and boundary walls, often in face brick. In Mangaung and Heidedal families extend with cement bricks and blocks, and Botshabelo and Thaba Nchu build homes and rooms with blocks from local yards. Brickyards, block yards and machine sellers sit in the industrial areas, and the city is a supply base for much of the Free State. Cement bricks made in winter need covering on frosty nights, and summer storms hit hard. Pit sand from around the city feeds yards and sites.
The requests we see from Bloemfontein usually come from:
- Homeowners: bricks for an extra room, a garage or a boundary wall round the house
- Builders and bricklaying contractors: regular loads of stock bricks delivered to site in step with the building programme
- Housing developers and complexes: large orders of matching bricks for a whole phase of houses or a complex
Local tips for Bloemfontein
Yards and suppliers serving Bloemfontein mostly work from here: brickyards, block yards and machine sellers in the city's industrial areas. The requests that come up most: face brick for estates, cement bricks and blocks for Mangaung and Botshabelo. When you ask for quotes, ask how the yard covers fresh bricks on frosty nights in winter.
Bricks usually suit house walls, boundary walls and extensions, made or supplied like this: cement pressed and cured, or clay fired. For homeowners, the biggest group here, that usually means bricks for an extra room, a garage or a boundary wall round the house. On the weather side: hard winter frost on fresh bricks; violent summer thunderstorms.
Service area: Bloemfontein and surrounds
Requests from Bloemfontein go to yards and suppliers that already deliver to Botshabelo, Thaba Nchu, Langenhoven Park, Brandwag, Heidedal, Mangaung, Bainsvlei and the rest of the area. Mention a narrow street, a steep site or an estate with delivery hours, because they change the price.