Phoning around Welkom 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 Welkom and nearby areas of Free State.
Interlocking Bricks in Welkom
Interested in interlocking bricks in Welkom? 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 Welkom, Free State 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.
Welkom notes on supplies & services
Bricklayers in Welkom, Odendaalsrus and Virginia quote per square metre or per 1,000 bricks laid. Sand comes by tipper from pits around the goldfields, so ask whether it suits plaster or mortar. Paving contractors work in Riebeeckstad and the town suburbs. Repairers service motors and rebuild moulds for township yards.
Bricks, blocks and brick making in Welkom
Welkom grew up on the Free State goldfields, and its mine houses, hostels and planned suburbs reflect that. With mining shrinking, much of the brick work now is people building and extending their own homes, especially in Thabong, where cement brick yards line many streets. Riebeeckstad and the older suburbs add rooms, garages and walls, and the maize and sunflower farms around Hennenman and Odendaalsrus need sheds and stores. Block yards in the industrial area serve builders across the goldfields, and machines and face bricks often come from Bloemfontein or Gauteng. Frost in winter and big summer storms both damage uncovered bricks, and the flat land makes drainage around new walls important.
Typical interlocking bricks requests in the area come from:
- 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
- Brickyards and block yards: a yard adding a hydraulic press to sell interlocking bricks beside cement bricks
Local tips for Welkom
Common here: cement maxi bricks for Thabong homes, blocks for farm sheds. Ask each supplier or contractor about this: ask to see a cured brick and its strength before buying from a small yard. Where they work from: cement brick yards in Thabong and block yards in the Welkom industrial area.
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 frost and summer storms; flat land needs good drainage.
Service area: Welkom and surrounds
Our network covers Welkom together with Thabong, Odendaalsrus, Virginia, Riebeeckstad, Allanridge, Hennenman. A street address helps a supplier work out the delivery before quoting.