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Block Making Machines in Durban
Want a block making machine in Durban? 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 Durban and around KwaZulu-Natal will quote the machine, moulds and setting up.
Want to know more first? Our block making machines guide covers the types, the sizes and what affects the price.
Machines & equipment in Durban: local notes
Small brick-making yards on open stands in Umlazi, KwaMashu and Inanda mostly run egg-laying machines on a concrete slab, electric where there is a supply and engine driven where there is not. The humid air means bricks need longer under cover before they are stacked, so plan more slab space than an inland yard would. Within a few kilometres of the sea, ask for galvanised or well painted frames, and hose salt off the machine after a shift.
Durban: the building, the weather and the yards
Humidity is the first thing a Durban builder plans around. Cement bricks and blocks cure slowly in the damp, sticky air, and summer downpours can wash out a fresh slab of bricks in an afternoon, so yards cover their rows and keep stock on pallets longer. Most of the metro builds in cement blocks and maxi bricks: extensions in Chatsworth and Phoenix, new rooms and boundary walls in Umlazi and KwaMashu, and complexes going up around Umhlanga and Cornubia. Face brick near the beachfront and the Bluff often shows white efflorescence from the salt air, and steel on brick machines rusts quickly. Block yards sit along the industrial belts in Jacobs, Prospecton and Riverhorse Valley, and tippers bring sand in from inland.
The requests we see from Durban 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 Durban
Common here: cement blocks and maxi bricks for extensions, boundary walls and complexes. Ask each supplier or contractor about this: ask how long the bricks were cured and whether they were kept covered in the rain. Where they work from: block yards in Jacobs, Prospecton and Riverhorse Valley, sand yards inland.
Block Making Machines usually suit block yards, builders and housing projects, made or supplied like this: coarse mix vibrated and tamped in a mould. For homeowners, the biggest group here, that usually means making hollow blocks for a long boundary wall or a garage at home. On the weather side: humid air slows curing; summer storms wash out fresh bricks, so cover rows.
Service area: Durban and surrounds
Our network covers Durban together with Umhlanga, Pinetown, Westville, Umlazi, Phoenix, Chatsworth, Berea. A street address helps a supplier work out the delivery before quoting.