Whether it is one load of sand or a whole house to brick up, our free service makes it easy to price building sand in Free State. Your request goes to a supplier serving towns and cities across Free State.
Building Sand in Free State
Need building sand in Free State? Say which sand it is for (mortar, plaster, concrete or brick making), how many cubic metres, the delivery address and whether a tipper can get in. Sand suppliers around Free State, Free State can quote a delivered price per load.
New to this? Read the building sand guide for the choices and the points worth checking before you pay.
Free State notes on supplies & services
Bricklaying teams in Bloemfontein, Welkom and Bethlehem quote per square metre or per 1,000 bricks laid, and paving contractors are busy on driveways and church yards across the city. Building sand comes from pits near the Modder and Vaal rivers and local quarries. Fire bricks are used in farm boilers and braai rooms, and mobile repairers from Bloemfontein cover the N1 towns for worn moulds.
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.
Typical building sand requests in the area come from:
- Homeowners: a tipper of building sand and a load of plaster sand for an extension
- Farms and smallholdings: sand trucked to a farm for staff houses, dam walls and concrete floors
- Builders and bricklaying contractors: regular sand deliveries to several sites, mortar and plaster sand kept apart
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.
Requests range widely: bakkie loads to 6 m³ tipper loads. Here, homeowners lead the requests, typically for a tipper of building sand and a load of plaster sand for an extension. One local point to raise: yards deliver along the N1, N3 and N5; farms often take full truck loads.
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.