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Cement Bricks in Pietermaritzburg
Cement bricks in Pietermaritzburg: say the number of bricks, the strength your plans ask for and the delivery address. Block yards and small brick makers around Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal can quote per 1,000 at the yard or delivered, and tell you how long the bricks have cured.
The main cement bricks page explains the options, the standards and the costs in more detail.
Pietermaritzburg notes on bricks & blocks
Extending an older house in Scottsville, Clarendon or Wembley usually means matching red face brick, so take a sample to the yard and order the full job at once. Edendale, Imbali and Northdale mostly build in plastered cement blocks and maxi bricks. Estates in Hilton and Hayfields use face brick, with paving bricks for driveways, and retaining blocks are common on the sloped plots.
Pietermaritzburg: the building, the weather and the yards
Pietermaritzburg has a long clay brick tradition, and the red face brick of the old city centre, the Victorian houses of Scottsville and the school buildings around town show it. Today most new building is in cement blocks and maxi bricks: RDP and social housing in Edendale and Imbali, extensions in Northdale and Eastwood, and estates out towards Hilton and Hayfields. The Msunduzi valley is hot in summer and can be frosty on winter mornings, and afternoon thunderstorms roll in through summer, so fresh bricks need covering against both rain and frost. Block yards and hardware stores sit around Willowton and Mkondeni, and machine sellers deliver up the N3 from Durban.
Who asks for cement bricks around Pietermaritzburg, 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
- Municipalities, schools and public works: cement bricks for public works housing, ablution blocks and school classrooms
Local tips for Pietermaritzburg
Most asked for in Pietermaritzburg: cement blocks and maxi bricks for housing, face brick to match older homes. Where the yards and suppliers are: block yards and hardware stores around Willowton, Mkondeni and the city centre. A useful tip: ask whether bricks made in winter were covered against frost while curing.
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: summer storms and winter frost in the valley; cover fresh bricks for both.
Service area: Pietermaritzburg and surrounds
Requests from Pietermaritzburg go to yards and suppliers that already deliver to Edendale, Imbali, Scottsville, Hilton, Howick, Hayfields, Northdale and the rest of the area. Mention a narrow street, a steep site or an estate with delivery hours, because they change the price.