Australia’s largest brickmaking group, Brickworks, has lifted prices across its bricks, roofing tiles and masonry range to claw back inflationary pressures in raw materials and rising transport costs, and warns that construction timelines for home builders and renovators are blowing out further.

Managing director Lindsay Partridge said the biggest price rises had been in roof tiles, where the installed price was 20 per cent above last year, and came as a shortage of roof tilers would cause further delays on projects.