Compare the strength, the price per thousand and the delivery before you pay. A free request for maxi bricks in Pietermaritzburg goes to a supplier serving Pietermaritzburg and nearby areas of KwaZulu-Natal, and you see the offers side by side.
Maxi Bricks in Pietermaritzburg
Maxi bricks in Pietermaritzburg: say the number of maxis or the wall size, solid or hollow, and the delivery address. Block yards and small brick makers around Pietermaritzburg, 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.
Pietermaritzburg notes on bricks & blocks
Extending an older house in Scottsville, Clarendon or Wembley usually means matching red face brick, so take a sample to the yard and order the full job at once. Edendale, Imbali and Northdale mostly build in plastered cement blocks and maxi bricks. Estates in Hilton and Hayfields use face brick, with paving bricks for driveways, and retaining blocks are common on the sloped plots.
Building with brick in Pietermaritzburg
Pietermaritzburg has a long clay brick tradition, and the red face brick of the old city centre, the Victorian houses of Scottsville and the school buildings around town show it. Today most new building is in cement blocks and maxi bricks: RDP and social housing in Edendale and Imbali, extensions in Northdale and Eastwood, and estates out towards Hilton and Hayfields. The Msunduzi valley is hot in summer and can be frosty on winter mornings, and afternoon thunderstorms roll in through summer, so fresh bricks need covering against both rain and frost. Block yards and hardware stores sit around Willowton and Mkondeni, and machine sellers deliver up the N3 from Durban.
The requests we see from Pietermaritzburg usually 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
- Municipalities, schools and public works: maxi bricks for community halls, ablution blocks and housing projects
Local tips for Pietermaritzburg
Common here: cement blocks and maxi bricks for housing, face brick to match older homes. Ask each supplier or contractor about this: ask whether bricks made in winter were covered against frost while curing. Where they work from: block yards and hardware stores around Willowton, Mkondeni and the city centre.
Around Pietermaritzburg 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 and sand by truck from local yards; machines often from Durban.
Service area: Pietermaritzburg and surrounds
Our network covers Pietermaritzburg together with Edendale, Imbali, Scottsville, Hilton, Howick, Hayfields, Northdale. A street address helps a supplier work out the delivery before quoting.