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 Northern Cape and we pass it to brickyards and block yards delivering in towns and cities across Northern Cape.
Retaining Wall Blocks in Northern Cape
Retaining wall blocks in Northern Cape: 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 Northern Cape, Northern Cape can quote and say whether an engineer is needed.
Want to know more first? Our retaining wall blocks guide covers the types, the sizes and what affects the price.
Northern Cape notes on bricks & blocks
Newer houses in Kimberley's Royldene and Hadison Park mix face brick with plaster, while Galeshewe and Roodepan build mostly in cement maxi bricks. In Kathu and Postmasburg, mine housing and rentals take large orders of blocks. Farms near Prieska and Williston build sheds and staff houses in hollow blocks, and Kimberley's old Belgravia houses need red face brick matched carefully for repairs and extensions.
Bricks, blocks and brick making in Northern Cape
Distance is part of the price of every brick in the Northern Cape. Kimberley and Upington have the bigger yards, but a farmhouse near Carnarvon or a school extension in Pofadder may be hundreds of kilometres from the nearest pallet, so many towns make their own cement bricks locally with a small machine and Orange River or pit sand. Mining towns such as Kathu, Postmasburg and Kuruman add rented housing and new extensions, and the Karoo towns of De Aar and Colesberg build farm sheds, dams and kraals. Kimberley's older suburbs still have red face brick to match. Fierce sun and dry wind crack fresh bricks, and the Karoo gets hard winter frost.
Typical retaining wall blocks requests in the area come from:
- Farms and smallholdings: retaining walls for dam spillways, farm road cuttings and sloping yards
- Homeowners: terracing a sloping garden or holding back the bank beside a driveway
- New brick-making businesses: a small yard making plantable retaining blocks in steel moulds for landscapers
Local tips for Northern Cape
Yards and suppliers serving Northern Cape mostly work from here: yards in Kimberley, Upington and Kathu; small local yards in most towns. The requests that come up most: locally made cement bricks, farm shed blocks, housing in the mining towns. When you ask for quotes, ask for a full load price delivered to the farm, not a per pallet price at the yard.
Requests range widely: quoted per block and per m² of wall face. Here, farms and smallholdings lead the requests, typically for retaining walls for dam spillways, farm road cuttings and sloping yards. One local point to raise: long hauls on the N8, N10 and N14; many towns make bricks with local sand.
Service area: Northern Cape and surrounds
We pass Northern Cape requests to suppliers based in or regularly delivering to Kimberley, Upington, Kathu, Kuruman, Springbok, De Aar, Postmasburg. Farm and rural requests should give the nearest town and the farm name, so delivery is quoted honestly.