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Face Bricks in Pietermaritzburg
Face bricks in Pietermaritzburg: 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 Pietermaritzburg, 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.
Pietermaritzburg notes on bricks & blocks
Extending an older house in Scottsville, Clarendon or Wembley usually means matching red face brick, so take a sample to the yard and order the full job at once. Edendale, Imbali and Northdale mostly build in plastered cement blocks and maxi bricks. Estates in Hilton and Hayfields use face brick, with paving bricks for driveways, and retaining blocks are common on the sloped plots.
Building with brick in Pietermaritzburg
Pietermaritzburg has a long clay brick tradition, and the red face brick of the old city centre, the Victorian houses of Scottsville and the school buildings around town show it. Today most new building is in cement blocks and maxi bricks: RDP and social housing in Edendale and Imbali, extensions in Northdale and Eastwood, and estates out towards Hilton and Hayfields. The Msunduzi valley is hot in summer and can be frosty on winter mornings, and afternoon thunderstorms roll in through summer, so fresh bricks need covering against both rain and frost. Block yards and hardware stores sit around Willowton and Mkondeni, and machine sellers deliver up the N3 from Durban.
The requests we see from Pietermaritzburg 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
- Municipalities, schools and public works: hard-wearing face brick schools, clinics and halls that need little upkeep
Local tips for Pietermaritzburg
Most asked for in Pietermaritzburg: cement blocks and maxi bricks for housing, face brick to match older homes. Where the yards and suppliers are: block yards and hardware stores around Willowton, Mkondeni and the city centre. A useful tip: ask whether bricks made in winter were covered against frost while curing.
Around Pietermaritzburg 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 and sand by truck from local yards; machines often from Durban.
Service area: Pietermaritzburg and surrounds
Our network covers Pietermaritzburg together with Edendale, Imbali, Scottsville, Hilton, Howick, Hayfields, Northdale. A street address helps a supplier work out the delivery before quoting.