Compare the strength, the price per thousand and the delivery before you pay. A free request for cement bricks in Secunda goes to a supplier serving Secunda and nearby areas of Mpumalanga, and you see the offers side by side.
Cement Bricks in Secunda
Cement bricks in Secunda: say the number of bricks, the strength your plans ask for and the delivery address. Block yards and small brick makers around Secunda, Mpumalanga 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 Secunda
Backyard rentals in Embalenhle are usually built from cement maxi bricks or 140 mm blocks, plastered inside and out. Secunda and Trichardt homeowners extending a face brick house try to match the original, which can mean ordering from further afield. Plant contractors order hollow blocks for stores and workshops. Ask for the strength of any ash bricks before using them on load-bearing walls.
Building with brick in Secunda
Built around a big synthetic fuel complex, Secunda is a company town that keeps growing outward. Family suburbs in Secunda itself and Trichardt add rooms, garages and boundary walls, while Embalenhle grows with RDP houses, backyard rentals and shops built from cement maxi bricks and blocks. Contractors serving the plant need blocks for workshops and stores, and shutdown periods bring work crews who rent rooms, which keeps backyard building busy. Yards in the industrial area and in Embalenhle sell bricks off the slab, and some use ash from the area in their mix. Sand comes from pits around Bethal and Kinross. The Highveld frost and the long dry winter wind are the main risks to curing bricks here.
The requests we see from Secunda 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
- Brickyards and block yards: the core product of most block yards, made daily and cured in rows
Local tips for Secunda
Yards and suppliers serving Secunda mostly work from here: block yards in the Secunda industrial area and small yards in Embalenhle. The requests that come up most: maxi bricks and blocks for backyard rentals, extensions and boundary walls. When you ask for quotes, ask the yard for a delivery date that avoids plant shutdown rush periods.
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: local yards deliver to Embalenhle, Evander and Kinross; sand by tipper from nearby pits.
Service area: Secunda and surrounds
Requests from Secunda go to yards and suppliers that already deliver to Embalenhle, Trichardt, Evander, Kinross, Bethal, Leandra and the rest of the area. Mention a narrow street, a steep site or an estate with delivery hours, because they change the price.