Compare the strength, the price per thousand and the delivery before you pay. A free request for face bricks in Eastern Cape goes to a supplier serving towns and cities across Eastern Cape, and you see the offers side by side.
Face Bricks in Eastern Cape
Face bricks in Eastern Cape: 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 Eastern Cape, Eastern Cape can quote per 1,000 delivered and may have sample panels to look at.
New to this? Read the face bricks guide for the choices and the points worth checking before you pay.
What to know locally in Eastern Cape
Extensions in Motherwell, Kwazakhele and Mdantsane are mostly cement maxi bricks and hollow blocks, while suburbs like Walmer, Lorraine and Beacon Bay favour clay face brick. Rondavels and homes around Mthatha, Ngcobo and Libode are built in blocks and plastered in bright colours. Holiday homes at St Francis Bay and Port Alfred need dense face brick and good damp-proofing against salt.
Eastern Cape: the building, the weather and the yards
Two very different building worlds sit side by side in the Eastern Cape. Along the coast, Gqeberha and East London build suburbs, complexes and factories, holiday homes go up at Jeffreys Bay, Kenton-on-Sea and Port Alfred, and townships such as Motherwell, Kwazakhele and Mdantsane keep extending. Inland and in the former Transkei, around Mthatha, Butterworth, Lusikisiki and Mount Frere, rural homes and rondavels are built in cement blocks from village yards, many of them one-machine businesses. The Karoo towns of Graaff-Reinet and Cradock build farm sheds and match old brickwork. Strong wind dries fresh bricks fast, salt air stains face brick on the coast, and the high ground near Komani gets frost.
The requests we see from Eastern Cape 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
- New brick-making businesses: small traders buying and reselling face bricks by the pallet to local builders
Local tips for Eastern Cape
Common here: cement blocks for rural homes, maxi bricks in the metros, face brick on the coast. Ask each supplier or contractor about this: in windy weather, ask the yard how long the bricks were kept damp before delivery. Where they work from: yards in Gqeberha, East London and Mthatha; small block yards in most villages.
Face Bricks usually suit houses, boundary walls and feature walls, made or supplied like this: clay shaped, dried and fired in a kiln. For homeowners, the biggest group here, that usually means a face brick house front or boundary wall that never needs painting. On the weather side: strong wind dries fresh bricks; coastal salt on face brick; frost inland.
Service area: Eastern Cape and surrounds
Suppliers and contractors on our network work throughout Eastern Cape, including Gqeberha, East London, Mthatha, Makhanda, Jeffreys Bay, Port Alfred, Graaff-Reinet. For farms and smaller towns, ask whether delivery is in the price and how far the truck travels.