Compare the strength, the price per thousand and the delivery before you pay. A free request for maxi bricks in Eastern Cape goes to a supplier serving towns and cities across Eastern Cape, and you see the offers side by side.
Maxi Bricks in Eastern Cape
Maxi bricks in Eastern Cape: say the number of maxis or the wall size, solid or hollow, and the delivery address. Block yards and small brick makers around Eastern Cape, Eastern Cape can quote per 1,000 delivered and say how long their bricks have been cured.
New to this? Read the maxi bricks guide for the choices and the points worth checking before you pay.
What to know locally in Eastern Cape
Extensions in Motherwell, Kwazakhele and Mdantsane are mostly cement maxi bricks and hollow blocks, while suburbs like Walmer, Lorraine and Beacon Bay favour clay face brick. Rondavels and homes around Mthatha, Ngcobo and Libode are built in blocks and plastered in bright colours. Holiday homes at St Francis Bay and Port Alfred need dense face brick and good damp-proofing against salt.
Building with brick in Eastern Cape
Two very different building worlds sit side by side in the Eastern Cape. Along the coast, Gqeberha and East London build suburbs, complexes and factories, holiday homes go up at Jeffreys Bay, Kenton-on-Sea and Port Alfred, and townships such as Motherwell, Kwazakhele and Mdantsane keep extending. Inland and in the former Transkei, around Mthatha, Butterworth, Lusikisiki and Mount Frere, rural homes and rondavels are built in cement blocks from village yards, many of them one-machine businesses. The Karoo towns of Graaff-Reinet and Cradock build farm sheds and match old brickwork. Strong wind dries fresh bricks fast, salt air stains face brick on the coast, and the high ground near Komani gets frost.
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
- New brick-making businesses: a small egg-laying machine with a maxi mould supplying local builders
Local tips for Eastern Cape
Most asked for in Eastern Cape: cement blocks for rural homes, maxi bricks in the metros, face brick on the coast. Where the yards and suppliers are: yards in Gqeberha, East London and Mthatha; small block yards in most villages. A useful tip: in windy weather, ask the yard how long the bricks were kept damp before delivery.
Around Eastern Cape 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: yards deliver along the N2 and R61; rural loads on gravel roads by small truck.
Service area: Eastern Cape and surrounds
We pass Eastern Cape requests to suppliers based in or regularly delivering to Gqeberha, East London, Mthatha, Makhanda, Jeffreys Bay, Port Alfred, Graaff-Reinet. Farm and rural requests should give the nearest town and the farm name, so delivery is quoted honestly.