Compare the strength, the price per thousand and the delivery before you pay. A free request for clay bricks in Durban goes to a supplier serving Durban and nearby areas of KwaZulu-Natal, and you see the offers side by side.
Clay Bricks in Durban
Clay bricks in Durban: say whether you want stock or face bricks, the number or the wall size, and the delivery address. Clay brickyards that deliver to Durban, KwaZulu-Natal can quote per 1,000 delivered and say whether all your bricks will come from one firing.
The main clay bricks page explains the options, the standards and the costs in more detail.
Durban notes on bricks & blocks
Along the Berea, Glenwood and Morningside, older houses are often face brick, and matching an old colour for an extension takes some hunting, so take a sample brick to the yard. In Chatsworth, Phoenix and Umlazi most new rooms go up in cement maxi bricks or hollow blocks and get plastered. Near the beachfront and on the Bluff, ask for dense units and plan for efflorescence on any unplastered wall.
Bricks, blocks and brick making in Durban
Humidity is the first thing a Durban builder plans around. Cement bricks and blocks cure slowly in the damp, sticky air, and summer downpours can wash out a fresh slab of bricks in an afternoon, so yards cover their rows and keep stock on pallets longer. Most of the metro builds in cement blocks and maxi bricks: extensions in Chatsworth and Phoenix, new rooms and boundary walls in Umlazi and KwaMashu, and complexes going up around Umhlanga and Cornubia. Face brick near the beachfront and the Bluff often shows white efflorescence from the salt air, and steel on brick machines rusts quickly. Block yards sit along the industrial belts in Jacobs, Prospecton and Riverhorse Valley, and tippers bring sand in from inland.
Who asks for clay bricks around Durban, most often first:
- 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 Durban
Most asked for in Durban: cement blocks and maxi bricks for extensions, boundary walls and complexes. Where the yards and suppliers are: block yards in Jacobs, Prospecton and Riverhorse Valley, sand yards inland. A useful tip: ask how long the bricks were cured and whether they were kept covered in the rain.
Requests range widely: 222 x 106 x 73 mm, about 52 a square metre. Here, homeowners lead the requests, typically for clay stock bricks for a plastered house, garage or room addition. One local point to raise: tipper sand from inland pits and quarries; bricks by flatbed with crane.
Service area: Durban and surrounds
Suppliers and contractors on our network work in Durban and surrounding areas, including Umhlanga, Pinetown, Westville, Umlazi, Phoenix, Chatsworth, Berea. Give the suburb or township and whether a big truck can get in, so the quote can allow for delivery and offloading.