Compare the strength, the price per thousand and the delivery before you pay. A free request for paving bricks in Newcastle goes to a supplier serving Newcastle and nearby areas of KwaZulu-Natal, and you see the offers side by side.
Paving Bricks in Newcastle
Paving bricks in Newcastle: say the area in square metres, whether it is a driveway, path or patio, the thickness and colour you want and whether you need it laid too. Yards and paving teams around Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal can quote per m² for the pavers alone or supplied and laid.
New to this? Read the paving bricks guide for the choices and the points worth checking before you pay.
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.
Building with brick in Newcastle
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.
Typical paving bricks requests in the area come from:
- Homeowners: a paved driveway, a path to the front door or a patio by the braai
- Builders and bricklaying contractors: pavers ordered for driveways and walkways at the end of a house build
- Brickyards and block yards: a block yard adding pavers to its range to sell alongside bricks
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 a paved driveway, a path to the front door or a patio by the braai. Before you agree to anything: concrete paving blocks to SANS 1058. 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.