Compare the strength, the price per thousand and the delivery before you pay. A free request for cement bricks in Newcastle goes to a supplier serving Newcastle and nearby areas of KwaZulu-Natal, and you see the offers side by side.
Cement Bricks in Newcastle
Cement bricks in Newcastle: say the number of bricks, the strength your plans ask for and the delivery address. Block yards and small brick makers around Newcastle, 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 Newcastle
Madadeni and Osizweni build mostly with cement maxi bricks and hollow blocks for new rooms, houses and walls, often plastered later. The older suburbs such as Arbor Park and Hutten Heights have many face brick houses, so match the colour from one batch. Farm buildings around Utrecht and Dannhauser use blocks and stock bricks. Ask yards for the strength of the units before you buy.
Bricks, blocks and brick making in Newcastle
Coal and steel country in northern KwaZulu-Natal has a long history of brickmaking, and Newcastle sits right in it. Madadeni and Osizweni grow by the street, with new rooms, family houses and boundary walls built in cement blocks and maxi bricks, while the older town has many face brick homes. The town gets cold, frosty winters and hard summer thunderstorms, so fresh cement bricks need covering in both seasons. Block yards, hardware stores and small backyard brickmakers supply most jobs, and engineering workshops in the industrial area can repair machines. Deliveries to farms around Utrecht and Dannhauser take a little longer, so plan loads ahead and check the farm road.
Who asks for cement bricks around Newcastle, most often first:
- 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 Newcastle
Yards and suppliers serving Newcastle mostly work from here: yards and stores in town and the industrial area, small yards in the townships. The requests that come up most: maxi bricks and blocks for rooms and houses, clay bricks for face work. When you ask for quotes, ask whether the yard covers curing bricks on frosty nights.
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: bricks by truck from local yards; sand from rivers and pits nearby.
Service area: Newcastle and surrounds
Requests from Newcastle go to yards and suppliers that already deliver to Madadeni, Osizweni, Blaauwbosch, Utrecht, Dannhauser, Charlestown and the rest of the area. Mention a narrow street, a steep site or an estate with delivery hours, because they change the price.