Need retaining wall blocks in Durban? BrickMachines.co.za puts homeowners, builders, developers and landscapers in Durban in touch with brickyards and block yards supplying Durban and nearby areas of KwaZulu-Natal. Send one request and they quote you directly, free and with no obligation.
Retaining Wall Blocks in Durban
Retaining wall blocks in Durban: 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 Durban, KwaZulu-Natal can quote and say whether an engineer is needed.
The main retaining wall blocks page explains the options, the standards and the costs in more detail.
Durban notes on bricks & blocks
Along the Berea, Glenwood and Morningside, older houses are often face brick, and matching an old colour for an extension takes some hunting, so take a sample brick to the yard. In Chatsworth, Phoenix and Umlazi most new rooms go up in cement maxi bricks or hollow blocks and get plastered. Near the beachfront and on the Bluff, ask for dense units and plan for efflorescence on any unplastered wall.
Building with brick in Durban
Humidity is the first thing a Durban builder plans around. Cement bricks and blocks cure slowly in the damp, sticky air, and summer downpours can wash out a fresh slab of bricks in an afternoon, so yards cover their rows and keep stock on pallets longer. Most of the metro builds in cement blocks and maxi bricks: extensions in Chatsworth and Phoenix, new rooms and boundary walls in Umlazi and KwaMashu, and complexes going up around Umhlanga and Cornubia. Face brick near the beachfront and the Bluff often shows white efflorescence from the salt air, and steel on brick machines rusts quickly. Block yards sit along the industrial belts in Jacobs, Prospecton and Riverhorse Valley, and tippers bring sand in from inland.
Who asks for retaining wall blocks around Durban, most often first:
- 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 Durban
Most asked for in Durban: cement blocks and maxi bricks for extensions, boundary walls and complexes. Where the yards and suppliers are: block yards in Jacobs, Prospecton and Riverhorse Valley, sand yards inland. A useful tip: ask how long the bricks were cured and whether they were kept covered in the rain.
Requests range widely: quoted per block and per m² of wall face. Here, homeowners lead the requests, typically for terracing a sloping garden or holding back the bank beside a driveway. One local point to raise: tipper sand from inland pits and quarries; bricks by flatbed with crane.
Service area: Durban and surrounds
Requests from Durban go to yards and suppliers that already deliver to Umhlanga, Pinetown, Westville, Umlazi, Phoenix, Chatsworth, Berea and the rest of the area. Mention a narrow street, a steep site or an estate with delivery hours, because they change the price.