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 Pietermaritzburg and we pass it to brickyards and block yards delivering in Pietermaritzburg and nearby areas of KwaZulu-Natal.
Retaining Wall Blocks in Pietermaritzburg
Retaining wall blocks in Pietermaritzburg: 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 Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal 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.
Pietermaritzburg notes on bricks & blocks
Extending an older house in Scottsville, Clarendon or Wembley usually means matching red face brick, so take a sample to the yard and order the full job at once. Edendale, Imbali and Northdale mostly build in plastered cement blocks and maxi bricks. Estates in Hilton and Hayfields use face brick, with paving bricks for driveways, and retaining blocks are common on the sloped plots.
Bricks, blocks and brick making in Pietermaritzburg
Pietermaritzburg has a long clay brick tradition, and the red face brick of the old city centre, the Victorian houses of Scottsville and the school buildings around town show it. Today most new building is in cement blocks and maxi bricks: RDP and social housing in Edendale and Imbali, extensions in Northdale and Eastwood, and estates out towards Hilton and Hayfields. The Msunduzi valley is hot in summer and can be frosty on winter mornings, and afternoon thunderstorms roll in through summer, so fresh bricks need covering against both rain and frost. Block yards and hardware stores sit around Willowton and Mkondeni, and machine sellers deliver up the N3 from Durban.
The requests we see from Pietermaritzburg usually 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
- Municipalities, schools and public works: stormwater channel banks, road cuttings and school grounds on slopes
Local tips for Pietermaritzburg
Common here: cement blocks and maxi bricks for housing, face brick to match older homes. Ask each supplier or contractor about this: ask whether bricks made in winter were covered against frost while curing. Where they work from: block yards and hardware stores around Willowton, Mkondeni and the city centre.
Around Pietermaritzburg 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 and sand by truck from local yards; machines often from Durban.
Service area: Pietermaritzburg and surrounds
Suppliers and contractors on our network work in Pietermaritzburg and surrounding areas, including Edendale, Imbali, Scottsville, Hilton, Howick, Hayfields, Northdale. Give the suburb or township and whether a big truck can get in, so the quote can allow for delivery and offloading.