Phoning around Durban for the right supplier or team at a fair price takes time. Send one request instead, with what you need and how much, and we pass it to glass block suppliers who work in Durban and nearby areas of KwaZulu-Natal.
Glass Blocks and Bricks in Durban
Want glass blocks in Durban? Give the panel width and height, whether it is inside or outside, the pattern (clear, wave or frosted) and supply only or supply and fit. Suppliers and builders around Durban, KwaZulu-Natal can quote the blocks, the fixing system and the labour.
Want to know more first? Our glass blocks guide covers the types, the sizes and what affects the price.
Durban notes on supplies & services
Bricklayers and paving contractors work right across the metro, from driveways in Durban North and Westville to retaining walls on the steep plots of Chatsworth and Shallcross. Plaster sand and building sand usually arrive by tipper from pits and quarries inland. Fire bricks for braais and pizza ovens are easy to find, and glass blocks turn up in bathroom panels in older flats. Repairers can rewind vibrator motors and rebuild worn moulds in the industrial areas around Jacobs and Mobeni.
Bricks, blocks and brick making in Durban
Humidity is the first thing a Durban builder plans around. Cement bricks and blocks cure slowly in the damp, sticky air, and summer downpours can wash out a fresh slab of bricks in an afternoon, so yards cover their rows and keep stock on pallets longer. Most of the metro builds in cement blocks and maxi bricks: extensions in Chatsworth and Phoenix, new rooms and boundary walls in Umlazi and KwaMashu, and complexes going up around Umhlanga and Cornubia. Face brick near the beachfront and the Bluff often shows white efflorescence from the salt air, and steel on brick machines rusts quickly. Block yards sit along the industrial belts in Jacobs, Prospecton and Riverhorse Valley, and tippers bring sand in from inland.
Typical glass blocks requests in the area come from:
- Homeowners: a glass block shower wall or a panel beside the front door for light
- Builders and bricklaying contractors: glass block panels built into bathrooms and stairwells on new houses
- Housing developers and complexes: matching glass block panels in stairwells across a block of units
Local tips for Durban
Common here: cement blocks and maxi bricks for extensions, boundary walls and complexes. Ask each supplier or contractor about this: ask how long the bricks were cured and whether they were kept covered in the rain. Where they work from: block yards in Jacobs, Prospecton and Riverhorse Valley, sand yards inland.
Glass Blocks and Bricks usually suit showers, bathrooms, stairwells, feature walls, made or supplied like this: pressed hollow glass, mortar or spacer laid. For homeowners, the biggest group here, that usually means a glass block shower wall or a panel beside the front door for light. On the weather side: humid air slows curing; summer storms wash out fresh bricks, so cover rows.
Service area: Durban and surrounds
Requests from Durban go to yards and suppliers that already deliver to Umhlanga, Pinetown, Westville, Umlazi, Phoenix, Chatsworth, Berea and the rest of the area. Mention a narrow street, a steep site or an estate with delivery hours, because they change the price.