A yard can quote faster when it knows the size, the type, how many you need and where the truck must go. Say it once in a request for maxi bricks in Cape Town and we pass it to brickyards and block yards delivering in Cape Town and nearby areas of Western Cape.
Maxi Bricks in Cape Town
Maxi bricks in Cape Town: say the number of maxis or the wall size, solid or hollow, and the delivery address. Block yards and small brick makers around Cape Town, Western Cape can quote per 1,000 delivered and say how long their bricks have been cured.
Want to know more first? Our maxi bricks guide covers the types, the sizes and what affects the price.
What to know locally in Cape Town
Backyard rooms and extensions in Khayelitsha, Mitchells Plain, Delft and Gugulethu go up mostly in cement maxi bricks and hollow blocks, then plastered. Older houses in Woodstock, Salt River and Observatory are often clay brick under plaster. Near the sea in Sea Point, Muizenberg and Strand, plan for salt and efflorescence on face brick. Developers around Century City order paving bricks by the m².
Cape Town: the building, the weather and the yards
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 maxi bricks requests in the area come from:
- Homeowners: maxi bricks for a back room, a garage or a plastered boundary wall
- Builders and bricklaying contractors: faster walling on extensions and low-cost houses with fewer bricks to lay
- Housing developers and complexes: maxi bricks ordered in bulk for social and RDP housing phases
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.
Maxi Bricks usually suit rDP homes, extensions, garages and walls, made or supplied like this: cement, sand and water pressed and cured. For homeowners, the biggest group here, that usually means maxi bricks for a back room, a garage or a plastered boundary wall. On the weather side: winter rain soaks fresh bricks; the summer south-easter dries them too fast.
Service area: Cape Town and surrounds
Our network covers Cape Town together with Century City, Woodstock, Epping, Montague Gardens, Paarden Eiland, Claremont, Salt River. A street address helps a supplier work out the delivery before quoting.