A supplier quotes better when they know what the machine must make, how it will be powered and how many you want a day. Send one request with the details and we pass it to brick machine suppliers who deliver to Cape Town and nearby areas of Western Cape.
Block Making Machines in Cape Town
Want a block making machine in Cape Town? Say which blocks you will make (90, 140 or 190 mm, hollow or solid), egg-laying or static, your power supply and how many blocks a day you hope for. Suppliers who deliver to Cape Town and around Western Cape will quote the machine, moulds and setting up.
New to this? Read the block making machines guide for the choices and the points worth checking before you pay.
Machines & equipment in Cape Town: local notes
Small yards on the Cape Flats often run electric egg-laying machines on a home slab in Philippi, Delft or Khayelitsha. Winter rain is the risk: build a roof over the curing area or cover the rows, and never stack wet, soft bricks. Workshops in Epping and Montague Gardens can repair frames and rewind motors. Near the coast, keep machines under cover and rinse off salt after a shift.
Bricks, blocks and brick making in Cape Town
Winter rain is what Cape Town brickmakers plan around. From May to August, cold fronts can soak fresh bricks for days, while the summer south-easter dries them too fast, so yards cover rows in both seasons. Cement blocks and maxi bricks dominate, building new rooms and backyard units in Khayelitsha, Mitchells Plain, Delft and Gugulethu, while face brick and stock bricks go into homes and complexes in the northern and southern suburbs. Block yards and stores cluster in Epping, Montague Gardens and Philippi, sand comes from the Cape Flats and pits around the city, and salt air on the Atlantic seaboard and False Bay coast causes efflorescence on face brick.
The requests we see from Cape Town usually come from:
- Homeowners: making hollow blocks for a long boundary wall or a garage at home
- Builders and bricklaying contractors: blocks made on site for boundary walls, outbuildings and quick structural walls
- Housing developers and complexes: a static block machine supplying blocks for estate walls and housing phases
Local tips for Cape Town
Yards and suppliers serving Cape Town mostly work from here: block yards and stores in Epping, Montague Gardens, Philippi and Parow. The requests that come up most: cement blocks and maxi bricks for backyard rooms, face brick for suburbs. When you ask for quotes, ask whether bricks were cured under cover during the winter rains.
Requests range widely: 390 x 190 mm face, 90, 140 or 190 mm wide. Here, homeowners lead the requests, typically for making hollow blocks for a long boundary wall or a garage at home. One local point to raise: bricks by flatbed with crane across the metro; Cape Flats sand by tipper.
Service area: Cape Town and surrounds
Our network covers Cape Town together with Century City, Woodstock, Epping, Montague Gardens, Paarden Eiland, Claremont, Salt River. A street address helps a supplier work out the delivery before quoting.