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 Durban and we pass it to brickyards and block yards delivering in Durban and nearby areas of KwaZulu-Natal.
Maxi Bricks in Durban
Maxi bricks in Durban: say the number of maxis or the wall size, solid or hollow, and the delivery address. Block yards and small brick makers around Durban, KwaZulu-Natal 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.
Bricks & blocks in Durban: local notes
Along the Berea, Glenwood and Morningside, older houses are often face brick, and matching an old colour for an extension takes some hunting, so take a sample brick to the yard. In Chatsworth, Phoenix and Umlazi most new rooms go up in cement maxi bricks or hollow blocks and get plastered. Near the beachfront and on the Bluff, ask for dense units and plan for efflorescence on any unplastered wall.
Bricks, blocks and brick making in Durban
Humidity is the first thing a Durban builder plans around. Cement bricks and blocks cure slowly in the damp, sticky air, and summer downpours can wash out a fresh slab of bricks in an afternoon, so yards cover their rows and keep stock on pallets longer. Most of the metro builds in cement blocks and maxi bricks: extensions in Chatsworth and Phoenix, new rooms and boundary walls in Umlazi and KwaMashu, and complexes going up around Umhlanga and Cornubia. Face brick near the beachfront and the Bluff often shows white efflorescence from the salt air, and steel on brick machines rusts quickly. Block yards sit along the industrial belts in Jacobs, Prospecton and Riverhorse Valley, and tippers bring sand in from inland.
Who asks for maxi bricks around Durban, most often first:
- 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 Durban
Yards and suppliers serving Durban mostly work from here: block yards in Jacobs, Prospecton and Riverhorse Valley, sand yards inland. The requests that come up most: cement blocks and maxi bricks for extensions, boundary walls and complexes. When you ask for quotes, ask how long the bricks were cured and whether they were kept covered in the rain.
Around Durban the largest group asking is homeowners, which usually means maxi bricks for a back room, a garage or a plastered boundary wall. Before you agree to anything: ask for the strength to SANS 1215. Getting stock here: tipper sand from inland pits and quarries; bricks by flatbed with crane.
Service area: Durban and surrounds
Our network covers Durban together with Umhlanga, Pinetown, Westville, Umlazi, Phoenix, Chatsworth, Berea. A street address helps a supplier work out the delivery before quoting.