A yard can quote faster when it knows the size, the type, how many you need and where the truck must go. Say it once in a request for cement bricks in Durban and we pass it to brickyards and block yards delivering in Durban and nearby areas of KwaZulu-Natal.
Cement Bricks in Durban
Cement bricks in Durban: say the number of bricks, the strength your plans ask for and the delivery address. Block yards and small brick makers around Durban, KwaZulu-Natal can quote per 1,000 at the yard or delivered, and tell you how long the bricks have cured.
New to this? Read the cement bricks guide for the choices and the points worth checking before you pay.
What to know locally in Durban
Along the Berea, Glenwood and Morningside, older houses are often face brick, and matching an old colour for an extension takes some hunting, so take a sample brick to the yard. In Chatsworth, Phoenix and Umlazi most new rooms go up in cement maxi bricks or hollow blocks and get plastered. Near the beachfront and on the Bluff, ask for dense units and plan for efflorescence on any unplastered wall.
Building with brick in Durban
Humidity is the first thing a Durban builder plans around. Cement bricks and blocks cure slowly in the damp, sticky air, and summer downpours can wash out a fresh slab of bricks in an afternoon, so yards cover their rows and keep stock on pallets longer. Most of the metro builds in cement blocks and maxi bricks: extensions in Chatsworth and Phoenix, new rooms and boundary walls in Umlazi and KwaMashu, and complexes going up around Umhlanga and Cornubia. Face brick near the beachfront and the Bluff often shows white efflorescence from the salt air, and steel on brick machines rusts quickly. Block yards sit along the industrial belts in Jacobs, Prospecton and Riverhorse Valley, and tippers bring sand in from inland.
Typical cement bricks requests in the area come from:
- Homeowners: cement bricks for an extension, a garage or a plastered boundary wall
- Builders and bricklaying contractors: bulk cement stock bricks from a nearby yard to cut transport costs
- Housing developers and complexes: cement bricks of a set strength for RDP and social housing phases
Local tips for Durban
Common here: cement blocks and maxi bricks for extensions, boundary walls and complexes. Ask each supplier or contractor about this: ask how long the bricks were cured and whether they were kept covered in the rain. Where they work from: block yards in Jacobs, Prospecton and Riverhorse Valley, sand yards inland.
Requests range widely: 222 x 106 x 73 mm stock, 290 mm maxi. Here, homeowners lead the requests, typically for cement bricks for an extension, a garage or a plastered boundary wall. One local point to raise: tipper sand from inland pits and quarries; bricks by flatbed with crane.
Service area: Durban and surrounds
Requests from Durban go to yards and suppliers that already deliver to Umhlanga, Pinetown, Westville, Umlazi, Phoenix, Chatsworth, Berea and the rest of the area. Mention a narrow street, a steep site or an estate with delivery hours, because they change the price.