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 Newcastle and we pass it to brickyards and block yards delivering in Newcastle and nearby areas of KwaZulu-Natal.
Maxi Bricks in Newcastle
Maxi bricks in Newcastle: say the number of maxis or the wall size, solid or hollow, and the delivery address. Block yards and small brick makers around Newcastle, 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.
What to know locally in Newcastle
Madadeni and Osizweni build mostly with cement maxi bricks and hollow blocks for new rooms, houses and walls, often plastered later. The older suburbs such as Arbor Park and Hutten Heights have many face brick houses, so match the colour from one batch. Farm buildings around Utrecht and Dannhauser use blocks and stock bricks. Ask yards for the strength of the units before you buy.
Newcastle: the building, the weather and the yards
Coal and steel country in northern KwaZulu-Natal has a long history of brickmaking, and Newcastle sits right in it. Madadeni and Osizweni grow by the street, with new rooms, family houses and boundary walls built in cement blocks and maxi bricks, while the older town has many face brick homes. The town gets cold, frosty winters and hard summer thunderstorms, so fresh cement bricks need covering in both seasons. Block yards, hardware stores and small backyard brickmakers supply most jobs, and engineering workshops in the industrial area can repair machines. Deliveries to farms around Utrecht and Dannhauser take a little longer, so plan loads ahead and check the farm road.
Who asks for maxi bricks around Newcastle, 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
- Brickyards and block yards: yards adding a maxi mould to make a bigger, faster-selling cement brick
Local tips for Newcastle
Most asked for in Newcastle: maxi bricks and blocks for rooms and houses, clay bricks for face work. Where the yards and suppliers are: yards and stores in town and the industrial area, small yards in the townships. A useful tip: ask whether the yard covers curing bricks on frosty nights.
Around Newcastle 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: bricks by truck from local yards; sand from rivers and pits nearby.
Service area: Newcastle and surrounds
Requests from Newcastle go to yards and suppliers that already deliver to Madadeni, Osizweni, Blaauwbosch, Utrecht, Dannhauser, Charlestown and the rest of the area. Mention a narrow street, a steep site or an estate with delivery hours, because they change the price.