Brick price today: red and fly ash bricks (21 Oct 2026)

Red brick price by city: chamber and country bricks

Red bricks are ₹10,620–₹10,910 per 1,000 for chamber bricks and ₹8,800 for country bricks in Chennai, delivered on a full lorry, before GST. The price gap is not a tested strength difference.

Fly ash brick price by city

Fly ash bricks (230 × 110 × 75 mm) are ₹8,120–₹8,410 per 1,000 before GST: lowest in Chennai, Gummidipoondi and Ponneri, highest in Sriperumbudur.

Convert brick price and count per m³ or sq ft

Divide the price per 1,000 by 1,000 for the price per brick: ₹8,120 ÷ 1,000 = ₹8.12. Multiply by the whole number of bricks you need.

A 230 × 110 × 75 mm brick gives 527 bricks per solid m³, or 408.5 per m³ of brickwork with 10 mm joints. A 190 × 90 × 90 mm modular brick with 10 mm joints gives exactly 500 per m³.

AAC vs red brick vs fly ash: cost of 100 sq ft of wall

For 100 sq ft of wall at these Chennai prices, the blocks or bricks alone cost ₹6,992 for a 200 mm AAC wall (GST included), ₹7,048.16 for a 9 inch fly-ash brick wall and ₹9,218.16 for a 9 inch chamber red brick wall (both before GST).

100 sq ft = 9.290304 m² exactly. AAC uses a 600 × 200 mm face and 3 mm joints: 9.290304 ÷ (0.603 × 0.203) = 75.8955959… blocks, rounded up once to 76. The brick wall is 228.6 mm thick, so its volume is 9.290304 × 0.2286 = 2.1237634944 m³. Assume 230 × 110 × 75 mm bricks with 10 mm joints: 2.1237634944 ÷ (0.240 × 0.120 × 0.085) = 867.5504470… bricks, rounded up to 868.

The fly-ash seller lists 230 × 110 × 75 mm. The red-brick seller gives only “about 9 × 4 × 3 inch”, so we assume the same size for red bricks; measure the bricks you receive and recalculate.

• Adhesive or mortar: extra, not priced here. The joints are counted in the piece numbers.
• Transport: extra for this AAC listing. Brick prices already use the seller’s full-lorry delivery assumption. A small 100 sq ft order may not qualify; AAC has a 500-block minimum.
• Labour, unloading, cutting, breakage, bands, mesh and plaster: extra, and not compared here.

Ask your engineer to approve the wall type and thickness before substituting materials. A 200 mm AAC wall and a 228.6 mm brick wall are not automatically equivalent designs.

GST on clay and fly ash bricks

Buying checks: size, strength and the correct IS standard

Before comparing prices, get the strength class, metric size and batch test report in writing. A product name or colour does not prove compliance.

Clay: IS 1077:1992 covers common burnt clay building bricks. BIS’s laboratory scope lists dimensions (6.1), tolerances (6.2), compressive strength (7.1), water absorption (7.2) and efflorescence (7.3). Ask for a numerical strength class; “first class”, “chamber” and “country” are not interchangeable test results.

Fly ash: the BIS product manual for IS 12894:2002, pulverized fuel ash-lime bricks lists dimensions and tolerances (5.1–5.2), compressive strength (7.1), drying shrinkage (7.2), efflorescence (7.3) and water absorption (7.4). Confirm composition and the applicable standard; do not apply an ash-lime standard to every product sold as a fly-ash brick.

1. Write the exact metric size and strength/density requirement on the order; avoid inch labels alone.
2. Get the quantity, minimum load, rate validity, HSN, tax, freight and unloading charges in writing.
3. Agree how broken pieces, shortages and rejected batches are recorded and replaced.
4. Measure delivered pieces, reconcile the challan with accepted stock and keep the batch documents. Arrange the specified tests; a visual or ringing check alone does not prove strength.

Red brick methodology and source dates

We check free public sources by hand. Each price keeps the date its source gives for that rate, not the date we found it. “Listed” is a seller’s advertised price; “reported” is a market publisher’s reference rate. Unit conversions keep the source’s GST basis, and a row shows a range only when its source publishes one. We have not verified any sale or dealer quote. Prices dated more than 7 days before the check are marked as older references and left out of the summary range. The summary range is the lowest and highest of the recent prices shown, not an India-wide average. The tables change only when we re-check the sources by hand. These materials are hand-checked weekly; no trend chart is published. Summary ranges keep tax bases separate. AAC m³ prices divide the source piece price by its stated block volume, without rounding the block count.

• M&B Chetty — 21 Oct 2026; Chennai, Gummidipoondi, Ponneri, Avadi, Tiruvallur, Sriperumbudur, Tambaram; ₹ per 1,000 bricks; listed.

What we could not verify

• Seven Tamil Nadu cities/towns from one supplier; no India-wide or independent multi-dealer survey. Delivery figures are the seller’s full-lorry estimates, not completed sales.
• Chamber and country brick sizes are approximate trade dimensions, and no compressive-strength class or batch test result was supplied. Do not equate “chamber” with an IS strength class.
• No verified freight, unloading, breakage allowance or mortar price for an actual order. The worked wall example uses explicitly assumed metric dimensions. No price trend is published.

Fly-ash brick methodology and source dates

We check free public sources by hand. Each price keeps the date its source gives for that rate, not the date we found it. “Listed” is a seller’s advertised price; “reported” is a market publisher’s reference rate. Unit conversions keep the source’s GST basis, and a row shows a range only when its source publishes one. We have not verified any sale or dealer quote. Prices dated more than 7 days before the check are marked as older references and left out of the summary range. The summary range is the lowest and highest of the recent prices shown, not an India-wide average. The tables change only when we re-check the sources by hand. These materials are hand-checked weekly; no trend chart is published. Summary ranges keep tax bases separate. AAC m³ prices divide the source piece price by its stated block volume, without rounding the block count.

• M&B Chetty — 21 Oct 2026; Chennai, Gummidipoondi, Ponneri, Avadi, Tiruvallur, Sriperumbudur, Tambaram; ₹ per 1,000 bricks; listed.

What we could not verify

• Seven Tamil Nadu cities/towns from one supplier; no broad India-wide or independent multi-dealer survey. Delivery figures are the seller’s full-lorry estimates, not completed sales.
• The listing states 230 × 110 × 75 mm but does not specify strength class, batch test results or the exact binder/composition. IS 12894 applies to pulverized fuel ash-lime bricks; confirm the applicable product standard.
• No verified unloading, breakage allowance or mortar price for an actual order. No price trend is published; listings are hand-checked weekly.

Frequently asked questions

Apply these rates to your wall quantities

Use the calculators for a single wall. For a drawing set, get a BOQ from your drawings with wall quantities, openings and measurement sheets.