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Retaining Wall Blocks in Midrand
Retaining wall blocks in Midrand: 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 Midrand, Gauteng 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 Midrand: local notes
Complexes in Noordwyk, Vorna Valley and Erand Gardens are usually built in plaster bricks or maxi bricks and plastered, with face brick on boundary walls. Waterfall and Kyalami estates may require a set face brick, so order it in one batch. In Ivory Park and Ebony Park most rooms go up in cement maxi bricks or hollow blocks. Retaining blocks are useful on the sloping stands near the Kaalfontein ridge and Glen Austin.
Midrand: the building, the weather and the yards
Halfway between Johannesburg and Pretoria, Midrand has grown on the open land along the N1, and much of the building is new: estates in Waterfall, Kyalami and Carlswald, rows of sectional title complexes in Noordwyk and Vorna Valley, and office and logistics parks near Allandale Road. To the east, Ivory Park, Ebony Park and Rabie Ridge add rooms and rental units in cement bricks bought from small yards or made on the stand. Developers order face brick and plaster bricks in bulk, so ask about the full order up front for colour. Yards sit around Olifantsfontein, Kaalfontein and Halfway House. The ridges catch wind that dries fresh bricks fast in spring, and summer storms here can be violent.
Typical retaining wall blocks requests in the area come from:
- Housing developers and complexes: terraced retaining walls on hillside estates and along internal roads
- Builders and bricklaying contractors: retaining walls on sloping plots before the house platform is built
- Homeowners: terracing a sloping garden or holding back the bank beside a driveway
Local tips for Midrand
Most asked for in Midrand: bulk face and plaster bricks for complexes, cement bricks in Ivory Park. Where the yards and suppliers are: yards around Olifantsfontein, Kaalfontein and Halfway House, off the N1 and R562. A useful tip: ask the yard to hold one batch number for the whole job when ordering face brick.
Retaining Wall Blocks usually suit garden banks, terraces, driveways, channels, made or supplied like this: dry stacked, each course set back. For housing developers and complexes, the biggest group here, that usually means terraced retaining walls on hillside estates and along internal roads. On the weather side: dry spring winds and violent summer storms; keep fresh bricks damp and covered.
Service area: Midrand and surrounds
Requests from Midrand go to yards and suppliers that already deliver to Waterfall, Kyalami, Halfway House, Vorna Valley, Carlswald, Noordwyk, Glen Austin and the rest of the area. Mention a narrow street, a steep site or an estate with delivery hours, because they change the price.