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Bricks in Free State
Bricks in Free State: say the brick type (cement, clay stock or face), the number or the wall size, and the delivery address. Brickyards serving Free State, 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.
Bricks & blocks in Free State: local notes
Homes in Mangaung's townships, Botshabelo and Thabong in Welkom are mostly built in cement maxi bricks and plastered, while Westdene, Universitas and Fichardt Park in Bloemfontein carry older red face brick that extensions should match. Bethlehem and Ficksburg still see sandstone details paired with face brick. Grain stores and sheds near Bothaville, Reitz and Viljoenskroon are built with hollow blocks on solid footings.
Free State: the building, the weather and the yards
Sandstone farmhouses in the eastern Free State and red face brick in Bloemfontein tell you the province has always built with what the ground offers. Today the busiest orders come from the townships and new housing around Bloemfontein, Botshabelo and Thaba Nchu, from Welkom and Virginia where old mine houses are extended and rented, and from Phuthaditjhaba in Qwaqwa where families build in stages. Kroonstad, Bethlehem and Sasolburg have their own yards and builders, and grain and cattle farms order blocks for sheds and staff housing. Cement brick and block yards work the edges of most towns. Hard winter frost and summer hail are real threats to bricks that have not cured.
The requests we see from Free State usually come from:
- Homeowners: bricks for an extra room, a garage or a boundary wall round the house
- Farms and smallholdings: bricks for staff houses, stores, kraals and walls around the farm buildings
- Builders and bricklaying contractors: regular loads of stock bricks delivered to site in step with the building programme
Local tips for Free State
Yards and suppliers serving Free State mostly work from here: yards in Bloemfontein, Welkom, Bethlehem and Sasolburg; small yards near every town. The requests that come up most: maxi bricks for township homes, farm shed blocks, face brick to match older homes. When you ask for quotes, in winter, ask the yard how it protects bricks from frost before they leave.
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 frost on fresh bricks in winter; summer hail and storms on curing rows.
Service area: Free State and surrounds
We pass Free State requests to suppliers based in or regularly delivering to Bloemfontein, Welkom, Kroonstad, Bethlehem, Sasolburg, Harrismith, Clarens. Farm and rural requests should give the nearest town and the farm name, so delivery is quoted honestly.