Compare the strength, the price per thousand and the delivery before you pay. A free request for bricks in Gauteng goes to a supplier serving towns and cities across Gauteng, and you see the offers side by side.
Bricks in Gauteng
Bricks in Gauteng: say the brick type (cement, clay stock or face), the number or the wall size, and the delivery address. Brickyards serving Gauteng, Gauteng 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.
Gauteng notes on bricks & blocks
Back rooms and second storeys in Soweto, Alexandra and Mamelodi are mostly built in cement maxi bricks, plastered and painted. Estates in Midrand, Pretoria East and Fourways lean towards clay face brick, so order the whole job from one batch to keep the colour even. Boundary walls along Tembisa and Katlehong streets often use hollow blocks, and retaining blocks hold up stepped gardens on the Northcliff and Linksfield ridges.
Building with brick in Gauteng
Johannesburg started out with a brickfields of its own, and the province has never stopped building. Today the demand is spread across township extensions in Soshanguve, Tembisa and Diepsloot, back rooms and boundary walls in Soweto and Mamelodi, estates and complexes in Midrand, Centurion and Lanseria, and factories from Germiston to Rosslyn. Cement brick and block yards sit on the edge of nearly every township, many of them small businesses running an egg-laying machine on a home slab, while clay brickyards and machine sellers work from the industrial belts. Sand comes in by tipper from pits south and west of the metros. Highveld frost in winter and violent summer storms are the two things to cover fresh bricks against.
Typical bricks requests in the area 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 Gauteng
Yards and suppliers serving Gauteng mostly work from here: block yards in every township; clay yards and machine sellers in the industrial belts. The requests that come up most: cement maxi bricks for back rooms, face brick for estates, brick machines for startups. When you ask for quotes, ask whether the price is at the yard or delivered, and who offloads the pallets.
Around Gauteng the largest group asking is homeowners, which usually means bricks for an extra room, a garage or a boundary wall round the house. Before you agree to anything: sANS 1215 for cement, SANS 227 for clay. Getting stock here: yards deliver by flatbed and crane truck; sand by tipper from pits outside the metros.
Service area: Gauteng and surrounds
We pass Gauteng requests to suppliers based in or regularly delivering to Johannesburg, Pretoria, Ekurhuleni, Sedibeng, West Rand, Midrand, Centurion. Farm and rural requests should give the nearest town and the farm name, so delivery is quoted honestly.