Compare the strength, the price per thousand and the delivery before you pay. A free request for maxi bricks in Midrand goes to a supplier serving Midrand and nearby areas of Gauteng, and you see the offers side by side.
Maxi Bricks in Midrand
Maxi bricks in Midrand: say the number of maxis or the wall size, solid or hollow, and the delivery address. Block yards and small brick makers around Midrand, Gauteng 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 Midrand
Complexes in Noordwyk, Vorna Valley and Erand Gardens are usually built in plaster bricks or maxi bricks and plastered, with face brick on boundary walls. Waterfall and Kyalami estates may require a set face brick, so order it in one batch. In Ivory Park and Ebony Park most rooms go up in cement maxi bricks or hollow blocks. Retaining blocks are useful on the sloping stands near the Kaalfontein ridge and Glen Austin.
Bricks, blocks and brick making in Midrand
Halfway between Johannesburg and Pretoria, Midrand has grown on the open land along the N1, and much of the building is new: estates in Waterfall, Kyalami and Carlswald, rows of sectional title complexes in Noordwyk and Vorna Valley, and office and logistics parks near Allandale Road. To the east, Ivory Park, Ebony Park and Rabie Ridge add rooms and rental units in cement bricks bought from small yards or made on the stand. Developers order face brick and plaster bricks in bulk, so ask about the full order up front for colour. Yards sit around Olifantsfontein, Kaalfontein and Halfway House. The ridges catch wind that dries fresh bricks fast in spring, and summer storms here can be violent.
Who asks for maxi bricks around Midrand, most often first:
- Housing developers and complexes: maxi bricks ordered in bulk for social and RDP housing phases
- Builders and bricklaying contractors: faster walling on extensions and low-cost houses with fewer bricks to lay
- Homeowners: maxi bricks for a back room, a garage or a plastered boundary wall
Local tips for Midrand
Most asked for in Midrand: bulk face and plaster bricks for complexes, cement bricks in Ivory Park. Where the yards and suppliers are: yards around Olifantsfontein, Kaalfontein and Halfway House, off the N1 and R562. A useful tip: ask the yard to hold one batch number for the whole job when ordering face brick.
Around Midrand the largest group asking is housing developers and complexes, which usually means maxi bricks ordered in bulk for social and RDP housing phases. Before you agree to anything: ask for the strength to SANS 1215. Getting stock here: trucks run from yards on the N1 corridor; sand by tipper from pits to the west.
Service area: Midrand and surrounds
Requests from Midrand go to yards and suppliers that already deliver to Waterfall, Kyalami, Halfway House, Vorna Valley, Carlswald, Noordwyk, Glen Austin and the rest of the area. Mention a narrow street, a steep site or an estate with delivery hours, because they change the price.