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 face bricks in Durban and we pass it to brickyards and block yards delivering in Durban and nearby areas of KwaZulu-Natal.
Face Bricks in Durban
Face bricks in Durban: 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 Durban, KwaZulu-Natal can quote per 1,000 delivered and may have sample panels to look at.
The main face bricks page explains the options, the standards and the costs in more detail.
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 face bricks around Durban, most often first:
- 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 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 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: tipper sand from inland pits and quarries; bricks by flatbed with crane.
Service area: Durban and surrounds
Suppliers and contractors on our network work in Durban and surrounding areas, including Umhlanga, Pinetown, Westville, Umlazi, Phoenix, Chatsworth, Berea. Give the suburb or township and whether a big truck can get in, so the quote can allow for delivery and offloading.