Compare the strength, the price per thousand and the delivery before you pay. A free request for clay bricks in Johannesburg goes to a supplier serving Johannesburg and nearby areas of Gauteng, and you see the offers side by side.
Clay Bricks in Johannesburg
Clay bricks in Johannesburg: say whether you want stock or face bricks, the number or the wall size, and the delivery address. Clay brickyards that deliver to Johannesburg, Gauteng 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 Johannesburg
Backyard rooms in Soweto, Alexandra and Riverlea are mostly built in cement maxi bricks or hollow blocks, then plastered, because they go up fast. In Melville, Parkview and Emmarentia the job is usually a face brick extension that has to sit next to brick laid decades ago, so take a loose brick to the yard and order the whole lot at once. Boundary walls in Rosettenville and Turffontein often mix blocks with face brick piers.
Building with brick in Johannesburg
Soweto sets the pace for brick demand in Johannesburg. Across Orlando, Diepkloof, Meadowlands and Protea Glen, families add backyard rooms, second storeys and boundary walls one pallet at a time, and small block yards on open stands make cement bricks to order for the street. Further north, older suburbs like Melville, Westdene and Kensington call for matching red face brick when a stoep is closed in or a garage is added. Along the Main Reef Road and in Booysens and City Deep, yards and hardware stores sit near the old mine dumps, close to most of the city. Highveld winters bring frost on still mornings, so fresh cement bricks need covering, and summer storms can wash out a slab of uncured bricks in minutes.
Typical clay bricks requests in the area 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 Johannesburg
Common here: cement maxi bricks for backyard rooms, face brick to match older suburbs. Ask each supplier or contractor about this: ask the yard whether the bricks were cured a full week before they left the slab. Where they work from: block yards in Soweto, yards and hardware stores along Main Reef Road and in Booysens.
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: yards spread through the city; tippers bring sand from pits south and west of town.
Service area: Johannesburg and surrounds
Suppliers and contractors on our network work in Johannesburg and surrounding areas, including Sandton, Randburg, Roodepoort, Soweto, Rosebank, Fourways, Melville. Give the suburb or township and whether a big truck can get in, so the quote can allow for delivery and offloading.