Compare the strength, the price per thousand and the delivery before you pay. A free request for face bricks in Pretoria goes to a supplier serving Pretoria and nearby areas of Gauteng, and you see the offers side by side.
Face Bricks in Pretoria
Face bricks in Pretoria: 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 Pretoria, 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.
Bricks & blocks in Pretoria: local notes
Soshanguve, Mabopane and Hammanskraal use a lot of cement maxi bricks and 140 mm hollow blocks for extensions and rental rooms. In Waterkloof, Brooklyn and Menlo Park the work is renovation, where face brick has to match an older house, and complexes in Montana and Pretoria East order face brick by the truckload. Retaining blocks are common on the sloping stands around Moreleta Park and Faerie Glen, where gardens step down the ridges.
Bricks, blocks and brick making in Pretoria
From Mamelodi in the east to Atteridgeville in the west and Soshanguve in the north, Pretoria's townships keep a large share of the city's bricklayers busy with extensions, double storeys and RDP houses being enlarged. The eastern side tells a different story: estates and complexes around Silver Lakes, Mooikloof and Pretoria East use face brick and plastered maxi brick for security villages and townhouses. Block yards cluster in Rosslyn, Pretoria West and Silverton, while many township stands run a small machine of their own. Winters are cold and dry with frost in the low parts of the city, and summer brings heavy afternoon storms, so bricks curing in the open need plastic sheeting and a slab with good fall.
The requests we see from Pretoria 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 Pretoria
Most asked for in Pretoria: maxi bricks and blocks for township extensions, face brick for eastern estates. Where the yards and suppliers are: block yards in Rosslyn, Pretoria West and Silverton; small yards in the townships. A useful tip: ask whether the quote includes offloading, since many township streets are narrow.
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: frosty winter mornings in low areas, heavy summer storms; cover curing bricks.
Service area: Pretoria and surrounds
Requests from Pretoria go to yards and suppliers that already deliver to Centurion, Hatfield, Waterkloof, Montana, Silver Lakes, Mooikloof, Akasia and the rest of the area. Mention a narrow street, a steep site or an estate with delivery hours, because they change the price.