Whether it is one load of sand or a whole house to brick up, our free service makes it easy to price glass blocks in Northern Cape. Your request goes to a supplier serving towns and cities across Northern Cape.
Glass Blocks and Bricks in Northern Cape
Want glass blocks in Northern Cape? 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 Northern Cape, Northern Cape 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.
Northern Cape notes on supplies & services
Bricklayers in Kimberley, Upington and Kathu quote per square metre or per 1,000 bricks laid, and on farms the team is often booked for a full job with lodging. Sand along the Orange and Vaal rivers near Upington and Douglas is used for bricks and plaster. Fire bricks are needed for farm boilers and mine kilns, and repairs to machines in remote towns usually mean posting the parts.
Building with brick in Northern Cape
Distance is part of the price of every brick in the Northern Cape. Kimberley and Upington have the bigger yards, but a farmhouse near Carnarvon or a school extension in Pofadder may be hundreds of kilometres from the nearest pallet, so many towns make their own cement bricks locally with a small machine and Orange River or pit sand. Mining towns such as Kathu, Postmasburg and Kuruman add rented housing and new extensions, and the Karoo towns of De Aar and Colesberg build farm sheds, dams and kraals. Kimberley's older suburbs still have red face brick to match. Fierce sun and dry wind crack fresh bricks, and the Karoo gets hard winter frost.
Typical glass blocks requests in the area come from:
- Farms and smallholdings: glass blocks to light a farm store, dairy or passage without a window
- Homeowners: a glass block shower wall or a panel beside the front door for light
- New brick-making businesses: a small building firm adding glass block panels to its bathroom work
Local tips for Northern Cape
Most asked for in Northern Cape: locally made cement bricks, farm shed blocks, housing in the mining towns. Where the yards and suppliers are: yards in Kimberley, Upington and Kathu; small local yards in most towns. A useful tip: ask for a full load price delivered to the farm, not a per pallet price at the yard.
Requests range widely: face about 190 x 190 mm, about 80 mm thick. Here, farms and smallholdings lead the requests, typically for glass blocks to light a farm store, dairy or passage without a window. One local point to raise: long hauls on the N8, N10 and N14; many towns make bricks with local sand.
Service area: Northern Cape and surrounds
Across Northern Cape our network reaches Kimberley, Upington, Kathu, Kuruman, Springbok, De Aar, Postmasburg and the towns between them. Outside the bigger centres, ask whether delivery is charged per kilometre or per load.