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Cement Bricks in Pretoria
Cement bricks in Pretoria: say the number of bricks, the strength your plans ask for and the delivery address. Block yards and small brick makers around Pretoria, Gauteng 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.
Bricks & blocks in Pretoria: local notes
Soshanguve, Mabopane and Hammanskraal use a lot of cement maxi bricks and 140 mm hollow blocks for extensions and rental rooms. In Waterkloof, Brooklyn and Menlo Park the work is renovation, where face brick has to match an older house, and complexes in Montana and Pretoria East order face brick by the truckload. Retaining blocks are common on the sloping stands around Moreleta Park and Faerie Glen, where gardens step down the ridges.
Bricks, blocks and brick making in Pretoria
From Mamelodi in the east to Atteridgeville in the west and Soshanguve in the north, Pretoria's townships keep a large share of the city's bricklayers busy with extensions, double storeys and RDP houses being enlarged. The eastern side tells a different story: estates and complexes around Silver Lakes, Mooikloof and Pretoria East use face brick and plastered maxi brick for security villages and townhouses. Block yards cluster in Rosslyn, Pretoria West and Silverton, while many township stands run a small machine of their own. Winters are cold and dry with frost in the low parts of the city, and summer brings heavy afternoon storms, so bricks curing in the open need plastic sheeting and a slab with good fall.
The requests we see from Pretoria usually 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 Pretoria
Common here: maxi bricks and blocks for township extensions, face brick for eastern estates. Ask each supplier or contractor about this: ask whether the quote includes offloading, since many township streets are narrow. Where they work from: block yards in Rosslyn, Pretoria West and Silverton; small yards in the townships.
Around Pretoria the largest group asking is homeowners, which usually means cement bricks for an extension, a garage or a plastered boundary wall. Before you agree to anything: concrete masonry units to SANS 1215. Getting stock here: yards on the edges of the city; sand by tipper from pits north and west of Pretoria.
Service area: Pretoria and surrounds
Requests from Pretoria go to yards and suppliers that already deliver to Centurion, Hatfield, Waterkloof, Montana, Silver Lakes, Mooikloof, Akasia and the rest of the area. Mention a narrow street, a steep site or an estate with delivery hours, because they change the price.