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 Johannesburg and we pass it to brickyards and block yards delivering in Johannesburg and nearby areas of Gauteng.
Cement Bricks in Johannesburg
Cement bricks in Johannesburg: say the number of bricks, the strength your plans ask for and the delivery address. Block yards and small brick makers around Johannesburg, Gauteng can quote per 1,000 at the yard or delivered, and tell you how long the bricks have cured.
Want to know more first? Our cement bricks guide covers the types, the sizes and what affects the price.
Bricks & blocks in Johannesburg: local notes
Backyard rooms in Soweto, Alexandra and Riverlea are mostly built in cement maxi bricks or hollow blocks, then plastered, because they go up fast. In Melville, Parkview and Emmarentia the job is usually a face brick extension that has to sit next to brick laid decades ago, so take a loose brick to the yard and order the whole lot at once. Boundary walls in Rosettenville and Turffontein often mix blocks with face brick piers.
Bricks, blocks and brick making in Johannesburg
Soweto sets the pace for brick demand in Johannesburg. Across Orlando, Diepkloof, Meadowlands and Protea Glen, families add backyard rooms, second storeys and boundary walls one pallet at a time, and small block yards on open stands make cement bricks to order for the street. Further north, older suburbs like Melville, Westdene and Kensington call for matching red face brick when a stoep is closed in or a garage is added. Along the Main Reef Road and in Booysens and City Deep, yards and hardware stores sit near the old mine dumps, close to most of the city. Highveld winters bring frost on still mornings, so fresh cement bricks need covering, and summer storms can wash out a slab of uncured bricks in minutes.
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
- Brickyards and block yards: the core product of most block yards, made daily and cured in rows
Local tips for Johannesburg
Most asked for in Johannesburg: cement maxi bricks for backyard rooms, face brick to match older suburbs. Where the yards and suppliers are: block yards in Soweto, yards and hardware stores along Main Reef Road and in Booysens. A useful tip: ask the yard whether the bricks were cured a full week before they left the slab.
Cement Bricks usually suit plastered house walls, extensions and walls, made or supplied like this: cement, sand and water pressed and cured. For homeowners, the biggest group here, that usually means cement bricks for an extension, a garage or a plastered boundary wall. On the weather side: frost on winter mornings and hard summer storms; cover fresh bricks for the first week.
Service area: Johannesburg and surrounds
Requests from Johannesburg go to yards and suppliers that already deliver to Sandton, Randburg, Roodepoort, Soweto, Rosebank, Fourways, Melville and the rest of the area. Mention a narrow street, a steep site or an estate with delivery hours, because they change the price.