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 retaining wall blocks in Gauteng and we pass it to brickyards and block yards delivering in towns and cities across Gauteng.
Retaining Wall Blocks in Gauteng
Retaining wall blocks in Gauteng: 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 Gauteng, Gauteng 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.
Gauteng notes on bricks & blocks
Back rooms and second storeys in Soweto, Alexandra and Mamelodi are mostly built in cement maxi bricks, plastered and painted. Estates in Midrand, Pretoria East and Fourways lean towards clay face brick, so order the whole job from one batch to keep the colour even. Boundary walls along Tembisa and Katlehong streets often use hollow blocks, and retaining blocks hold up stepped gardens on the Northcliff and Linksfield ridges.
Gauteng: the building, the weather and the yards
Johannesburg started out with a brickfields of its own, and the province has never stopped building. Today the demand is spread across township extensions in Soshanguve, Tembisa and Diepsloot, back rooms and boundary walls in Soweto and Mamelodi, estates and complexes in Midrand, Centurion and Lanseria, and factories from Germiston to Rosslyn. Cement brick and block yards sit on the edge of nearly every township, many of them small businesses running an egg-laying machine on a home slab, while clay brickyards and machine sellers work from the industrial belts. Sand comes in by tipper from pits south and west of the metros. Highveld frost in winter and violent summer storms are the two things to cover fresh bricks against.
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 Gauteng
Most asked for in Gauteng: cement maxi bricks for back rooms, face brick for estates, brick machines for startups. Where the yards and suppliers are: block yards in every township; clay yards and machine sellers in the industrial belts. A useful tip: ask whether the price is at the yard or delivered, and who offloads the pallets.
Around Gauteng 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: yards deliver by flatbed and crane truck; sand by tipper from pits outside the metros.
Service area: Gauteng and surrounds
Across Gauteng our network reaches Johannesburg, Pretoria, Ekurhuleni, Sedibeng, West Rand, Midrand, Centurion and the towns between them. Outside the bigger centres, ask whether delivery is charged per kilometre or per load.