Phoning around Western Cape 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 towns and cities across Western Cape.
Glass Blocks and Bricks in Western Cape
Want glass blocks in Western 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 Western Cape, Western Cape can quote the blocks, the fixing system and the labour.
New to this? Read the glass blocks guide for the choices and the points worth checking before you pay.
Supplies & services in Western Cape: local notes
Bricklaying teams across the metro quote per square metre or per 1,000 bricks laid, and paving contractors are busy on driveways in Bellville, Durbanville and Somerset West. Building and plaster sand come by tipper from pits on the Cape Flats and around Malmesbury. Fire bricks go into braais and wood ovens on wine farms near Franschhoek and Stellenbosch, and mobile repairers cover the metro and Boland.
Bricks, blocks and brick making in Western Cape
Winter rain, not frost, is the main enemy of fresh bricks in the Western Cape. From May to August, curing rows in the Cape Flats and Winelands need covering, and bricklayers plan around wet weeks. The metro builds everywhere at once: backyard rooms in Khayelitsha, Mitchells Plain and Delft, complexes in Parklands, Kraaifontein and Somerset West, and alterations to Victorian homes in the Southern Suburbs. Sand has long come from the Philippi area and the dunes of the Cape Flats, and clay brickyards work the shale belt north of the city. Stellenbosch, Paarl, Worcester and George add wine farms, student housing and Garden Route homes, and the south easter carries salt spray well inland.
The requests we see from Western Cape usually 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 Western Cape
Common here: cement blocks for backyard rooms, clay face brick for complexes and alterations. Ask each supplier or contractor about this: in winter, ask how the yard covers its stock and whether bricks arrive dry. Where they work from: yards on the Cape Flats and northern edge of the metro; trades in the Winelands and George.
Around Western Cape the largest group asking is homeowners, which usually means a glass block shower wall or a panel beside the front door for light. Before you agree to anything: non load-bearing; framed by a structural wall. Getting stock here: yards deliver across the metro by crane truck; sand from pits on the Cape Flats.
Service area: Western Cape and surrounds
Across Western Cape our network reaches Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, George, Knysna, Hermanus, Worcester and the towns between them. Outside the bigger centres, ask whether delivery is charged per kilometre or per load.