Compare the strength, the price per thousand and the delivery before you pay. A free request for retaining wall blocks in Cape Town goes to a supplier serving Cape Town and nearby areas of Western Cape, and you see the offers side by side.
Retaining Wall Blocks in Cape Town
Retaining wall blocks in Cape Town: give the wall length, the height of soil to hold back, plantable or rock face blocks, and whether you want supply only or a built wall. Block yards and landscapers around Cape Town, Western Cape can quote and say whether an engineer is needed.
New to this? Read the retaining wall blocks guide for the choices and the points worth checking before you pay.
Bricks & blocks in Cape Town: local notes
Backyard rooms and extensions in Khayelitsha, Mitchells Plain, Delft and Gugulethu go up mostly in cement maxi bricks and hollow blocks, then plastered. Older houses in Woodstock, Salt River and Observatory are often clay brick under plaster. Near the sea in Sea Point, Muizenberg and Strand, plan for salt and efflorescence on face brick. Developers around Century City order paving bricks by the m².
Cape Town: the building, the weather and the yards
Winter rain is what Cape Town brickmakers plan around. From May to August, cold fronts can soak fresh bricks for days, while the summer south-easter dries them too fast, so yards cover rows in both seasons. Cement blocks and maxi bricks dominate, building new rooms and backyard units in Khayelitsha, Mitchells Plain, Delft and Gugulethu, while face brick and stock bricks go into homes and complexes in the northern and southern suburbs. Block yards and stores cluster in Epping, Montague Gardens and Philippi, sand comes from the Cape Flats and pits around the city, and salt air on the Atlantic seaboard and False Bay coast causes efflorescence on face brick.
Typical retaining wall blocks requests in the area come from:
- Homeowners: terracing a sloping garden or holding back the bank beside a driveway
- Builders and bricklaying contractors: retaining walls on sloping plots before the house platform is built
- Housing developers and complexes: terraced retaining walls on hillside estates and along internal roads
Local tips for Cape Town
Yards and suppliers serving Cape Town mostly work from here: block yards and stores in Epping, Montague Gardens, Philippi and Parow. The requests that come up most: cement blocks and maxi bricks for backyard rooms, face brick for suburbs. When you ask for quotes, ask whether bricks were cured under cover during the winter rains.
Around Cape Town the largest group asking is homeowners, which usually means terracing a sloping garden or holding back the bank beside a driveway. Before you agree to anything: tall or loaded walls need an engineer. Getting stock here: bricks by flatbed with crane across the metro; Cape Flats sand by tipper.
Service area: Cape Town and surrounds
Suppliers and contractors on our network work in Cape Town and surrounding areas, including Century City, Woodstock, Epping, Montague Gardens, Paarden Eiland, Claremont, Salt River. Give the suburb or township and whether a big truck can get in, so the quote can allow for delivery and offloading.