Compare the strength, the price per thousand and the delivery before you pay. A free request for face bricks in Cape Town goes to a supplier serving Cape Town and nearby areas of Western Cape, and you see the offers side by side.
Face Bricks in Cape Town
Face bricks in Cape Town: say the colour and texture you want, the number of bricks or the wall size, and whether it is for a house or a boundary wall. Brickyards serving Cape Town, Western Cape can quote per 1,000 delivered and may have sample panels to look at.
Want to know more first? Our face bricks guide covers the types, the sizes and what affects the price.
Bricks & blocks in Cape Town: local notes
Backyard rooms and extensions in Khayelitsha, Mitchells Plain, Delft and Gugulethu go up mostly in cement maxi bricks and hollow blocks, then plastered. Older houses in Woodstock, Salt River and Observatory are often clay brick under plaster. Near the sea in Sea Point, Muizenberg and Strand, plan for salt and efflorescence on face brick. Developers around Century City order paving bricks by the m².
Cape Town: the building, the weather and the yards
Winter rain is what Cape Town brickmakers plan around. From May to August, cold fronts can soak fresh bricks for days, while the summer south-easter dries them too fast, so yards cover rows in both seasons. Cement blocks and maxi bricks dominate, building new rooms and backyard units in Khayelitsha, Mitchells Plain, Delft and Gugulethu, while face brick and stock bricks go into homes and complexes in the northern and southern suburbs. Block yards and stores cluster in Epping, Montague Gardens and Philippi, sand comes from the Cape Flats and pits around the city, and salt air on the Atlantic seaboard and False Bay coast causes efflorescence on face brick.
The requests we see from Cape Town usually come from:
- Homeowners: a face brick house front or boundary wall that never needs painting
- Builders and bricklaying contractors: matched face bricks for a house build ordered in one batch per job
- Housing developers and complexes: one colour of face brick across a whole estate for a uniform look
Local tips for Cape Town
Most asked for in Cape Town: cement blocks and maxi bricks for backyard rooms, face brick for suburbs. Where the yards and suppliers are: block yards and stores in Epping, Montague Gardens, Philippi and Parow. A useful tip: ask whether bricks were cured under cover during the winter rains.
Around Cape Town the largest group asking is homeowners, which usually means a face brick house front or boundary wall that never needs painting. Before you agree to anything: burnt clay masonry units to SANS 227. Getting stock here: bricks by flatbed with crane across the metro; Cape Flats sand by tipper.
Service area: Cape Town and surrounds
Requests from Cape Town go to yards and suppliers that already deliver to Century City, Woodstock, Epping, Montague Gardens, Paarden Eiland, Claremont, Salt River and the rest of the area. Mention a narrow street, a steep site or an estate with delivery hours, because they change the price.