Phoning around Pietermaritzburg 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 Pietermaritzburg and nearby areas of KwaZulu-Natal.
Interlocking Bricks in Pietermaritzburg
Interested in interlocking bricks in Pietermaritzburg? 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 Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal 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.
Supplies & services in Pietermaritzburg: local notes
Bricklayers across the city are used to both face brick work in the older suburbs and plastered block walls in the townships. Paving contractors lay driveways and courtyards in Hayfields, Montrose and Boughton. Sand comes from pits and quarries around the valley, delivered by tipper. Schools and public buildings sometimes need fire bricks for kitchens and boilers, and machine repairers in the industrial areas can source vibrator motors and bearings.
Building with brick in Pietermaritzburg
Pietermaritzburg has a long clay brick tradition, and the red face brick of the old city centre, the Victorian houses of Scottsville and the school buildings around town show it. Today most new building is in cement blocks and maxi bricks: RDP and social housing in Edendale and Imbali, extensions in Northdale and Eastwood, and estates out towards Hilton and Hayfields. The Msunduzi valley is hot in summer and can be frosty on winter mornings, and afternoon thunderstorms roll in through summer, so fresh bricks need covering against both rain and frost. Block yards and hardware stores sit around Willowton and Mkondeni, and machine sellers deliver up the N3 from Durban.
Who asks for interlocking bricks around Pietermaritzburg, most often first:
- 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
- Municipalities, schools and public works: community halls and classrooms built with locally made interlocking blocks
Local tips for Pietermaritzburg
Most asked for in Pietermaritzburg: cement blocks and maxi bricks for housing, face brick to match older homes. Where the yards and suppliers are: block yards and hardware stores around Willowton, Mkondeni and the city centre. A useful tip: ask whether bricks made in winter were covered against frost while curing.
Requests range widely: manual lever presses to hydraulic units. Here, homeowners lead the requests, typically for interlocking bricks for a garden wall, an outbuilding or a rural family house. One local point to raise: bricks and sand by truck from local yards; machines often from Durban.
Service area: Pietermaritzburg and surrounds
Requests from Pietermaritzburg go to yards and suppliers that already deliver to Edendale, Imbali, Scottsville, Hilton, Howick, Hayfields, Northdale and the rest of the area. Mention a narrow street, a steep site or an estate with delivery hours, because they change the price.