Compare the strength, the price per thousand and the delivery before you pay. A free request for face bricks in KwaZulu-Natal goes to a supplier serving towns and cities across KwaZulu-Natal, and you see the offers side by side.
Face Bricks in KwaZulu-Natal
Face bricks in KwaZulu-Natal: 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 KwaZulu-Natal, 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.
What to know locally in KwaZulu-Natal
Rooms added in Umlazi, KwaMashu and Clermont are mostly hollow blocks and cement maxi bricks, while estates in Umhlanga, Ballito and Hillcrest use clay face brick and paving. On the steep stands of Westville, Kloof and Pietermaritzburg's Montrose, retaining wall blocks hold up gardens and driveways. Coastal face brick should be a dense unit laid with a sound damp-proof course to keep salt staining down.
KwaZulu-Natal: the building, the weather and the yards
Steep hills, coastal damp and a huge rural population make KwaZulu-Natal a province of hollow blocks and retaining walls. Across the hills of Ndwedwe, Msinga and Nongoma, homesteads are built in cement blocks from small local yards, often with the blocks made on site. Durban's townships of Umlazi, KwaMashu and Inanda keep adding rooms, while Umhlanga, Ballito and Cornubia take estate and complex work with face brick and paving. Pietermaritzburg, Newcastle and Richards Bay each have their own yards. On the coast, salt and humidity bring white efflorescence on face brick and rust on machine parts, and summer downpours wash out uncovered bricks. The Midlands and Drakensberg get winter frost.
The requests we see from KwaZulu-Natal 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 KwaZulu-Natal
Common here: hollow blocks for rural homes, retaining blocks on slopes, face brick for estates. Ask each supplier or contractor about this: on steep rural sites, ask whether the truck can reach the stand or needs a smaller load. Where they work from: block yards across the townships and rural towns; bigger yards near Durban and PMB.
Around KwaZulu-Natal 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 deliver along the N2 and N3; rural loads up steep gravel roads by small truck.
Service area: KwaZulu-Natal and surrounds
Across KwaZulu-Natal our network reaches Durban, Pietermaritzburg, Umhlanga, Ballito, Richards Bay, Newcastle, Port Shepstone and the towns between them. Outside the bigger centres, ask whether delivery is charged per kilometre or per load.