Compare the strength, the price per thousand and the delivery before you pay. A free request for clay bricks in Roodepoort goes to a supplier serving Roodepoort and nearby areas of Gauteng, and you see the offers side by side.
Clay Bricks in Roodepoort
Clay bricks in Roodepoort: say whether you want stock or face bricks, the number or the wall size, and the delivery address. Clay brickyards that deliver to Roodepoort, Gauteng 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 Roodepoort: local notes
Complexes in Wilgeheuwel, Ruimsig and Willowbrook use face brick on the outside and plaster bricks inside, ordered by the truckload. In Florida, Maraisburg and Roodepoort West the work is extensions and boundary walls on older houses, usually in maxi bricks or blocks and plastered. Dobsonville and Braamfischerville families build rooms in cement maxi bricks. Retaining blocks are common on sloping stands around Constantia Kloof and Kloofendal.
Bricks, blocks and brick making in Roodepoort
West of Johannesburg, Roodepoort grew up along the gold reef, and its older suburbs like Florida, Discovery and Horison sit close to old mine land along the Main Reef Road. Newer growth is north west, where estates and complexes in Ruimsig, Wilgeheuwel, Little Falls and Honeydew use face brick and plastered maxi brick in large volumes. Dobsonville and Braamfischerville, on the Soweto side, build rooms and boundary walls in cement bricks from small yards nearby. Industrial stands in Roodepoort West, Laser Park and Honeydew hold block yards and hardware stores. Frost settles in the valleys around the Kloofendal ridges in winter, and spring winds dry fresh cement bricks quickly, so keep them damp.
The requests we see from Roodepoort usually come from:
- Homeowners: clay stock bricks for a plastered house, garage or room addition
- Housing developers and complexes: large clay brick orders from one yard so a whole phase matches
- Builders and bricklaying contractors: full truck loads of clay stock bricks booked ahead for each house
Local tips for Roodepoort
Common here: face brick for estates and complexes, cement bricks in Dobsonville and Florida. Ask each supplier or contractor about this: ask whether the estate needs a set brick colour before you sign the quote. Where they work from: yards in Laser Park, Honeydew and along Main Reef Road in Roodepoort West.
Around Roodepoort 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: yards on Main Reef Road and in Honeydew; sand by tipper from pits to the west.
Service area: Roodepoort and surrounds
Requests from Roodepoort go to yards and suppliers that already deliver to Florida, Weltevredenpark, Ruimsig, Little Falls, Honeydew, Wilgeheuwel, Constantia Kloof and the rest of the area. Mention a narrow street, a steep site or an estate with delivery hours, because they change the price.