Compare the strength, the price per thousand and the delivery before you pay. A free request for clay bricks in Cape Town goes to a supplier serving Cape Town and nearby areas of Western Cape, and you see the offers side by side.
Clay Bricks in Cape Town
Clay bricks in Cape Town: say whether you want stock or face bricks, the number or the wall size, and the delivery address. Clay brickyards that deliver to Cape Town, Western Cape can quote per 1,000 delivered and say whether all your bricks will come from one firing.
New to this? Read the clay bricks guide for the choices and the points worth checking before you pay.
What to know locally in Cape Town
Backyard rooms and extensions in Khayelitsha, Mitchells Plain, Delft and Gugulethu go up mostly in cement maxi bricks and hollow blocks, then plastered. Older houses in Woodstock, Salt River and Observatory are often clay brick under plaster. Near the sea in Sea Point, Muizenberg and Strand, plan for salt and efflorescence on face brick. Developers around Century City order paving bricks by the m².
Bricks, blocks and brick making in Cape Town
Winter rain is what Cape Town brickmakers plan around. From May to August, cold fronts can soak fresh bricks for days, while the summer south-easter dries them too fast, so yards cover rows in both seasons. Cement blocks and maxi bricks dominate, building new rooms and backyard units in Khayelitsha, Mitchells Plain, Delft and Gugulethu, while face brick and stock bricks go into homes and complexes in the northern and southern suburbs. Block yards and stores cluster in Epping, Montague Gardens and Philippi, sand comes from the Cape Flats and pits around the city, and salt air on the Atlantic seaboard and False Bay coast causes efflorescence on face brick.
The requests we see from Cape Town usually come from:
- Homeowners: clay stock bricks for a plastered house, garage or room addition
- Builders and bricklaying contractors: full truck loads of clay stock bricks booked ahead for each house
- Housing developers and complexes: large clay brick orders from one yard so a whole phase matches
Local tips for Cape Town
Common here: cement blocks and maxi bricks for backyard rooms, face brick for suburbs. Ask each supplier or contractor about this: ask whether bricks were cured under cover during the winter rains. Where they work from: block yards and stores in Epping, Montague Gardens, Philippi and Parow.
Around Cape Town the largest group asking is homeowners, which usually means clay stock bricks for a plastered house, garage or room addition. Before you agree to anything: burnt clay masonry units to SANS 227. Getting stock here: bricks by flatbed with crane across the metro; Cape Flats sand by tipper.
Service area: Cape Town and surrounds
Our network covers Cape Town together with Century City, Woodstock, Epping, Montague Gardens, Paarden Eiland, Claremont, Salt River. A street address helps a supplier work out the delivery before quoting.