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Bricks in Newcastle
Bricks in Newcastle: say the brick type (cement, clay stock or face), the number or the wall size, and the delivery address. Brickyards serving Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal 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 Newcastle
Madadeni and Osizweni build mostly with cement maxi bricks and hollow blocks for new rooms, houses and walls, often plastered later. The older suburbs such as Arbor Park and Hutten Heights have many face brick houses, so match the colour from one batch. Farm buildings around Utrecht and Dannhauser use blocks and stock bricks. Ask yards for the strength of the units before you buy.
Building with brick in Newcastle
Coal and steel country in northern KwaZulu-Natal has a long history of brickmaking, and Newcastle sits right in it. Madadeni and Osizweni grow by the street, with new rooms, family houses and boundary walls built in cement blocks and maxi bricks, while the older town has many face brick homes. The town gets cold, frosty winters and hard summer thunderstorms, so fresh cement bricks need covering in both seasons. Block yards, hardware stores and small backyard brickmakers supply most jobs, and engineering workshops in the industrial area can repair machines. Deliveries to farms around Utrecht and Dannhauser take a little longer, so plan loads ahead and check the farm road.
The requests we see from Newcastle 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 Newcastle
Yards and suppliers serving Newcastle mostly work from here: yards and stores in town and the industrial area, small yards in the townships. The requests that come up most: maxi bricks and blocks for rooms and houses, clay bricks for face work. When you ask for quotes, ask whether the yard covers curing bricks on frosty nights.
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 rivers and pits nearby.
Service area: Newcastle and surrounds
Suppliers and contractors on our network work in Newcastle and surrounding areas, including Madadeni, Osizweni, Blaauwbosch, Utrecht, Dannhauser, Charlestown. Give the suburb or township and whether a big truck can get in, so the quote can allow for delivery and offloading.