Phoning around Pretoria 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 Pretoria and nearby areas of Gauteng.
Interlocking Bricks in Pretoria
Interested in interlocking bricks in Pretoria? 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 Pretoria, Gauteng 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.
What to know locally in Pretoria
Bricklayers from Mamelodi and Atteridgeville work right across the city and quote per m² or per 1,000 bricks laid. Sand comes by tipper from pits to the north and west, so ask for plaster and building sand separately. Paving contractors are busy in Pretoria East estates and on township driveways. Fire bricks for braai and pizza ovens are asked for in Lynnwood and Garsfontein, and repairers in Pretoria West fix motors and moulds.
Bricks, blocks and brick making in Pretoria
From Mamelodi in the east to Atteridgeville in the west and Soshanguve in the north, Pretoria's townships keep a large share of the city's bricklayers busy with extensions, double storeys and RDP houses being enlarged. The eastern side tells a different story: estates and complexes around Silver Lakes, Mooikloof and Pretoria East use face brick and plastered maxi brick for security villages and townhouses. Block yards cluster in Rosslyn, Pretoria West and Silverton, while many township stands run a small machine of their own. Winters are cold and dry with frost in the low parts of the city, and summer brings heavy afternoon storms, so bricks curing in the open need plastic sheeting and a slab with good fall.
The requests we see from Pretoria usually 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 Pretoria
Most asked for in Pretoria: maxi bricks and blocks for township extensions, face brick for eastern estates. Where the yards and suppliers are: block yards in Rosslyn, Pretoria West and Silverton; small yards in the townships. A useful tip: ask whether the quote includes offloading, since many township streets are narrow.
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: yards on the edges of the city; sand by tipper from pits north and west of Pretoria.
Service area: Pretoria and surrounds
Our network covers Pretoria together with Centurion, Hatfield, Waterkloof, Montana, Silver Lakes, Mooikloof, Akasia. A street address helps a supplier work out the delivery before quoting.