Compare the strength, the price per thousand and the delivery before you pay. A free request for bricks in Pietermaritzburg goes to a supplier serving Pietermaritzburg and nearby areas of KwaZulu-Natal, and you see the offers side by side.
Bricks in Pietermaritzburg
Bricks in Pietermaritzburg: say the brick type (cement, clay stock or face), the number or the wall size, and the delivery address. Brickyards serving Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal can quote per 1,000 delivered and say how soon a truck can come and whether it can offload with a crane.
The main bricks page explains the options, the standards and the costs in more detail.
Pietermaritzburg notes on bricks & blocks
Extending an older house in Scottsville, Clarendon or Wembley usually means matching red face brick, so take a sample to the yard and order the full job at once. Edendale, Imbali and Northdale mostly build in plastered cement blocks and maxi bricks. Estates in Hilton and Hayfields use face brick, with paving bricks for driveways, and retaining blocks are common on the sloped plots.
Building with brick in Pietermaritzburg
Pietermaritzburg has a long clay brick tradition, and the red face brick of the old city centre, the Victorian houses of Scottsville and the school buildings around town show it. Today most new building is in cement blocks and maxi bricks: RDP and social housing in Edendale and Imbali, extensions in Northdale and Eastwood, and estates out towards Hilton and Hayfields. The Msunduzi valley is hot in summer and can be frosty on winter mornings, and afternoon thunderstorms roll in through summer, so fresh bricks need covering against both rain and frost. Block yards and hardware stores sit around Willowton and Mkondeni, and machine sellers deliver up the N3 from Durban.
The requests we see from Pietermaritzburg 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
- Municipalities, schools and public works: bricks for classrooms, clinics, community halls and municipal housing projects
Local tips for Pietermaritzburg
Common here: cement blocks and maxi bricks for housing, face brick to match older homes. Ask each supplier or contractor about this: ask whether bricks made in winter were covered against frost while curing. Where they work from: block yards and hardware stores around Willowton, Mkondeni and the city centre.
Around Pietermaritzburg 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: bricks and sand by truck from local yards; machines often from Durban.
Service area: Pietermaritzburg and surrounds
Requests from Pietermaritzburg go to yards and suppliers that already deliver to Edendale, Imbali, Scottsville, Hilton, Howick, Hayfields, Northdale and the rest of the area. Mention a narrow street, a steep site or an estate with delivery hours, because they change the price.