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Face Bricks in Johannesburg
Face bricks in Johannesburg: 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 Johannesburg, Gauteng 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.
Johannesburg notes on bricks & blocks
Backyard rooms in Soweto, Alexandra and Riverlea are mostly built in cement maxi bricks or hollow blocks, then plastered, because they go up fast. In Melville, Parkview and Emmarentia the job is usually a face brick extension that has to sit next to brick laid decades ago, so take a loose brick to the yard and order the whole lot at once. Boundary walls in Rosettenville and Turffontein often mix blocks with face brick piers.
Bricks, blocks and brick making in Johannesburg
Soweto sets the pace for brick demand in Johannesburg. Across Orlando, Diepkloof, Meadowlands and Protea Glen, families add backyard rooms, second storeys and boundary walls one pallet at a time, and small block yards on open stands make cement bricks to order for the street. Further north, older suburbs like Melville, Westdene and Kensington call for matching red face brick when a stoep is closed in or a garage is added. Along the Main Reef Road and in Booysens and City Deep, yards and hardware stores sit near the old mine dumps, close to most of the city. Highveld winters bring frost on still mornings, so fresh cement bricks need covering, and summer storms can wash out a slab of uncured bricks in minutes.
Who asks for face bricks around Johannesburg, 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
- Brickyards and block yards: clay yards grading each firing into face, semi face and stock bricks
Local tips for Johannesburg
Most asked for in Johannesburg: cement maxi bricks for backyard rooms, face brick to match older suburbs. Where the yards and suppliers are: block yards in Soweto, yards and hardware stores along Main Reef Road and in Booysens. A useful tip: ask the yard whether the bricks were cured a full week before they left the slab.
Around Johannesburg 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: yards spread through the city; tippers bring sand from pits south and west of town.
Service area: Johannesburg and surrounds
Requests from Johannesburg go to yards and suppliers that already deliver to Sandton, Randburg, Roodepoort, Soweto, Rosebank, Fourways, Melville and the rest of the area. Mention a narrow street, a steep site or an estate with delivery hours, because they change the price.