Phoning around Northern 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 brick suppliers and contractors who work in towns and cities across Northern Cape.
Interlocking Bricks in Northern Cape
Interested in interlocking bricks in Northern Cape? 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 Northern Cape, Northern Cape can quote bricks delivered or a press with moulds and training.
New to this? Read the interlocking bricks guide for the choices and the points worth checking before you pay.
Supplies & services in Northern Cape: local notes
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.
Northern Cape: the building, the weather and the yards
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.
The requests we see from Northern Cape usually come from:
- Farms and smallholdings: staff houses, stores and kraal walls pressed from soil on the farm
- Homeowners: interlocking bricks for a garden wall, an outbuilding or a rural family house
- New brick-making businesses: a co-operative or youth project pressing interlocking bricks from local soil
Local tips for Northern Cape
Common here: locally made cement bricks, farm shed blocks, housing in the mining towns. Ask each supplier or contractor about this: ask for a full load price delivered to the farm, not a per pallet price at the yard. Where they work from: yards in Kimberley, Upington and Kathu; small local yards in most towns.
Around Northern Cape the largest group asking is farms and smallholdings, which usually means staff houses, stores and kraal walls pressed from soil on the farm. Before you agree to anything: still needs foundations, plans and SANS 10400. Getting stock here: 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.