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Interlocking Bricks in Cape Town
Interested in interlocking bricks in Cape Town? Say whether you want to buy bricks or a machine, what you are building, and what the soil is like on site. Makers and machine suppliers around Cape Town, Western Cape can quote bricks delivered or a press with moulds and training.
The main interlocking bricks page explains the options, the standards and the costs in more detail.
Cape Town notes on supplies & services
Bricklayers and paving contractors are spread across the metro, from boundary walls in Mitchells Plain to driveways in Durbanville and Constantia. Cape Flats sand is plentiful, but it is often fine and needs care in mortar and bricks, so ask the yard which sand suits which job. Fire bricks for braais, pizza ovens and fireplaces are easy to find, and glass blocks appear in older Atlantic seaboard flats.
Bricks, blocks and brick making in Cape Town
Winter rain is what Cape Town brickmakers plan around. From May to August, cold fronts can soak fresh bricks for days, while the summer south-easter dries them too fast, so yards cover rows in both seasons. Cement blocks and maxi bricks dominate, building new rooms and backyard units in Khayelitsha, Mitchells Plain, Delft and Gugulethu, while face brick and stock bricks go into homes and complexes in the northern and southern suburbs. Block yards and stores cluster in Epping, Montague Gardens and Philippi, sand comes from the Cape Flats and pits around the city, and salt air on the Atlantic seaboard and False Bay coast causes efflorescence on face brick.
Typical interlocking bricks requests in the area come from:
- Homeowners: interlocking bricks for a garden wall, an outbuilding or a rural family house
- Builders and bricklaying contractors: a small builder trying dry stacked interlocking walls on rural houses
- Housing developers and complexes: low cost housing pilots built from stabilised interlocking blocks
Local tips for Cape Town
Most asked for in Cape Town: cement blocks and maxi bricks for backyard rooms, face brick for suburbs. Where the yards and suppliers are: block yards and stores in Epping, Montague Gardens, Philippi and Parow. A useful tip: ask whether bricks were cured under cover during the winter rains.
Interlocking Bricks usually suit farm buildings, rural houses, garden walls, made or supplied like this: soil or soil-cement pressed in a mould. For homeowners, the biggest group here, that usually means interlocking bricks for a garden wall, an outbuilding or a rural family house. On the weather side: winter rain soaks fresh bricks; the summer south-easter dries them too fast.
Service area: Cape Town and surrounds
Suppliers and contractors on our network work in Cape Town and surrounding areas, including Century City, Woodstock, Epping, Montague Gardens, Paarden Eiland, Claremont, Salt River. Give the suburb or township and whether a big truck can get in, so the quote can allow for delivery and offloading.