A yard can quote faster when it knows the size, the type, how many you need and where the truck must go. Say it once in a request for concrete blocks in Durban and we pass it to brickyards and block yards delivering in Durban and nearby areas of KwaZulu-Natal.
Concrete Blocks in Durban
Concrete blocks in Durban: say the width (90, 140 or 190 mm), hollow or solid, the number or the wall size, and the delivery address. Block yards around Durban, KwaZulu-Natal can quote per block collected or delivered and say how many blocks a pallet holds.
New to this? Read the concrete blocks guide for the choices and the points worth checking before you pay.
Bricks & blocks in Durban: local notes
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.
Building with brick 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 concrete blocks around Durban, most often first:
- Homeowners: 140 mm hollow blocks for a boundary wall, garage or back room
- Builders and bricklaying contractors: block walls on outbuildings and houses that go up in fewer courses
- Housing developers and complexes: hollow blocks for estate perimeter walls and complex boundary walls
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.
Around Durban the largest group asking is homeowners, which usually means 140 mm hollow blocks for a boundary wall, garage or back room. Before you agree to anything: concrete masonry units to SANS 1215. Getting stock here: tipper sand from inland pits and quarries; bricks by flatbed with crane.
Service area: Durban and surrounds
Requests from Durban go to yards and suppliers that already deliver to Umhlanga, Pinetown, Westville, Umlazi, Phoenix, Chatsworth, Berea and the rest of the area. Mention a narrow street, a steep site or an estate with delivery hours, because they change the price.