Compare the strength, the price per thousand and the delivery before you pay. A free request for maxi bricks in KwaZulu-Natal goes to a supplier serving towns and cities across KwaZulu-Natal, and you see the offers side by side.
Maxi Bricks in KwaZulu-Natal
Maxi bricks in KwaZulu-Natal: say the number of maxis or the wall size, solid or hollow, and the delivery address. Block yards and small brick makers around KwaZulu-Natal, KwaZulu-Natal 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.
KwaZulu-Natal notes on bricks & blocks
Rooms added in Umlazi, KwaMashu and Clermont are mostly hollow blocks and cement maxi bricks, while estates in Umhlanga, Ballito and Hillcrest use clay face brick and paving. On the steep stands of Westville, Kloof and Pietermaritzburg's Montrose, retaining wall blocks hold up gardens and driveways. Coastal face brick should be a dense unit laid with a sound damp-proof course to keep salt staining down.
Building with brick in KwaZulu-Natal
Steep hills, coastal damp and a huge rural population make KwaZulu-Natal a province of hollow blocks and retaining walls. Across the hills of Ndwedwe, Msinga and Nongoma, homesteads are built in cement blocks from small local yards, often with the blocks made on site. Durban's townships of Umlazi, KwaMashu and Inanda keep adding rooms, while Umhlanga, Ballito and Cornubia take estate and complex work with face brick and paving. Pietermaritzburg, Newcastle and Richards Bay each have their own yards. On the coast, salt and humidity bring white efflorescence on face brick and rust on machine parts, and summer downpours wash out uncovered bricks. The Midlands and Drakensberg get winter 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
- Housing developers and complexes: maxi bricks ordered in bulk for social and RDP housing phases
Local tips for KwaZulu-Natal
Yards and suppliers serving KwaZulu-Natal mostly work from here: block yards across the townships and rural towns; bigger yards near Durban and PMB. The requests that come up most: hollow blocks for rural homes, retaining blocks on slopes, face brick for estates. When you ask for quotes, on steep rural sites, ask whether the truck can reach the stand or needs a smaller load.
Requests range widely: 290 x 140 x 90 mm, about 33 a square metre. Here, homeowners lead the requests, typically for maxi bricks for a back room, a garage or a plastered boundary wall. One local point to raise: yards deliver along the N2 and N3; rural loads up steep gravel roads by small truck.
Service area: KwaZulu-Natal and surrounds
Suppliers and contractors on our network work throughout KwaZulu-Natal, including Durban, Pietermaritzburg, Umhlanga, Ballito, Richards Bay, Newcastle, Port Shepstone. For farms and smaller towns, ask whether delivery is in the price and how far the truck travels.