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Bricks in East London
Bricks in East London: say the brick type (cement, clay stock or face), the number or the wall size, and the delivery address. Brickyards serving East London, Eastern Cape 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.
East London notes on bricks & blocks
Mdantsane, Duncan Village and Scenery Park build mostly in plastered hollow blocks and cement maxi bricks. In Beacon Bay, Nahoon and Vincent, face brick houses are common, so extensions need colour matched from one batch, and units near the sea should be dense to resist salt. Farms and villages towards Bhisho and Qonce use blocks for houses and outbuildings, often bought from small local yards.
East London: the building, the weather and the yards
On the banks of the Buffalo River, East London is a port city with a big housing need around it. Mdantsane, one of the largest townships in the country, builds constantly: new rooms, boundary walls, spaza shops and family houses, mostly in cement blocks. Beacon Bay, Gonubie and Nahoon have face brick homes and newer complexes, and the industrial development zone on the West Bank draws factory and warehouse work. The coast is humid with rain spread through the year, so cement bricks cure slowly and face brick near the sea shows salt. Block yards and stores sit in Wilsonia and the West Bank, and small yards in Mdantsane and Duncan Village make blocks for neighbours.
The requests we see from East London 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
- Brickyards and block yards: yards topping up stock with bought-in bricks when their own production runs short
Local tips for East London
Most asked for in East London: cement blocks for homes and walls in Mdantsane, face brick for the suburbs. Where the yards and suppliers are: yards and stores in Wilsonia and the West Bank, small yards in Mdantsane. A useful tip: ask how long blocks were cured, since damp weather slows curing here.
Requests range widely: 222 x 106 x 73 mm, about 52 a square metre. Here, homeowners lead the requests, typically for bricks for an extra room, a garage or a boundary wall round the house. One local point to raise: bricks by truck from local yards; sand from pits and quarries inland.
Service area: East London and surrounds
Our network covers East London together with Mdantsane, Bhisho, Qonce, Beacon Bay, Gonubie, Vincent, Nahoon. A street address helps a supplier work out the delivery before quoting.