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Bricks in Western Cape
Bricks in Western Cape: say the brick type (cement, clay stock or face), the number or the wall size, and the delivery address. Brickyards serving Western Cape, Western Cape can quote per 1,000 delivered and say how soon a truck can come and whether it can offload with a crane.
New to this? Read the bricks guide for the choices and the points worth checking before you pay.
Bricks & blocks in Western Cape: local notes
Backyard rooms in Khayelitsha, Gugulethu and Delft are mostly built in cement blocks, while complexes in Parklands, Durbanville and Somerset West use clay face brick or plastered blocks. Alterations in Rondebosch, Observatory and Wynberg often need older clay bricks matched in size. Retaining blocks hold slopes in Tygerberg Hills and Fish Hoek, and coastal homes in Hermanus and Kommetjie need dense face brick against salt.
Bricks, blocks and brick making in Western Cape
Winter rain, not frost, is the main enemy of fresh bricks in the Western Cape. From May to August, curing rows in the Cape Flats and Winelands need covering, and bricklayers plan around wet weeks. The metro builds everywhere at once: backyard rooms in Khayelitsha, Mitchells Plain and Delft, complexes in Parklands, Kraaifontein and Somerset West, and alterations to Victorian homes in the Southern Suburbs. Sand has long come from the Philippi area and the dunes of the Cape Flats, and clay brickyards work the shale belt north of the city. Stellenbosch, Paarl, Worcester and George add wine farms, student housing and Garden Route homes, and the south easter carries salt spray well inland.
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 Western Cape
Yards and suppliers serving Western Cape mostly work from here: yards on the Cape Flats and northern edge of the metro; trades in the Winelands and George. The requests that come up most: cement blocks for backyard rooms, clay face brick for complexes and alterations. When you ask for quotes, in winter, ask how the yard covers its stock and whether bricks arrive dry.
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: wet winters soak curing bricks; south easter salt and wind dry them in summer.
Service area: Western Cape and surrounds
Across Western Cape our network reaches Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, George, Knysna, Hermanus, Worcester and the towns between them. Outside the bigger centres, ask whether delivery is charged per kilometre or per load.