Compare the strength, the price per thousand and the delivery before you pay. A free request for clay bricks in East London goes to a supplier serving East London and nearby areas of Eastern Cape, and you see the offers side by side.
Clay Bricks in East London
Clay bricks in East London: say whether you want stock or face bricks, the number or the wall size, and the delivery address. Clay brickyards that deliver to East London, Eastern Cape 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.
Bricks & blocks in East London: local notes
Mdantsane, Duncan Village and Scenery Park build mostly in plastered hollow blocks and cement maxi bricks. In Beacon Bay, Nahoon and Vincent, face brick houses are common, so extensions need colour matched from one batch, and units near the sea should be dense to resist salt. Farms and villages towards Bhisho and Qonce use blocks for houses and outbuildings, often bought from small local yards.
Bricks, blocks and brick making in East London
On the banks of the Buffalo River, East London is a port city with a big housing need around it. Mdantsane, one of the largest townships in the country, builds constantly: new rooms, boundary walls, spaza shops and family houses, mostly in cement blocks. Beacon Bay, Gonubie and Nahoon have face brick homes and newer complexes, and the industrial development zone on the West Bank draws factory and warehouse work. The coast is humid with rain spread through the year, so cement bricks cure slowly and face brick near the sea shows salt. Block yards and stores sit in Wilsonia and the West Bank, and small yards in Mdantsane and Duncan Village make blocks for neighbours.
The requests we see from East London 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
- Brickyards and block yards: clay yards selling stock, semi face and face bricks from each firing
Local tips for East London
Common here: cement blocks for homes and walls in Mdantsane, face brick for the suburbs. Ask each supplier or contractor about this: ask how long blocks were cured, since damp weather slows curing here. Where they work from: yards and stores in Wilsonia and the West Bank, small yards in Mdantsane.
Around East London 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 truck from local yards; sand from pits and quarries inland.
Service area: East London and surrounds
Requests from East London go to yards and suppliers that already deliver to Mdantsane, Bhisho, Qonce, Beacon Bay, Gonubie, Vincent, Nahoon and the rest of the area. Mention a narrow street, a steep site or an estate with delivery hours, because they change the price.