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Block Making Machines in East London
Want a block making machine in East London? 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 East London and around Eastern Cape 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.
East London notes on machines & equipment
A small block yard with an electric egg-laying machine and a mixer is a common start-up in Mdantsane, selling to neighbours building rooms. Damp, salty air rusts steel, so keep the machine under cover, grease it often and touch up the paint. Beyond the metro, in villages towards Bhisho, engine driven and manual machines suit stands without power. Ask the supplier where spares and moulds are kept.
East London: the building, the weather and the yards
On the banks of the Buffalo River, East London is a port city with a big housing need around it. Mdantsane, one of the largest townships in the country, builds constantly: new rooms, boundary walls, spaza shops and family houses, mostly in cement blocks. Beacon Bay, Gonubie and Nahoon have face brick homes and newer complexes, and the industrial development zone on the West Bank draws factory and warehouse work. The coast is humid with rain spread through the year, so cement bricks cure slowly and face brick near the sea shows salt. Block yards and stores sit in Wilsonia and the West Bank, and small yards in Mdantsane and Duncan Village make blocks for neighbours.
Who asks for block making machines around East London, most often first:
- 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
- Brickyards and block yards: adding hollow blocks to a brick range so builders buy everything in one place
Local tips for East London
Common here: cement blocks for homes and walls in Mdantsane, face brick for the suburbs. Ask each supplier or contractor about this: ask how long blocks were cured, since damp weather slows curing here. Where they work from: yards and stores in Wilsonia and the West Bank, small yards in Mdantsane.
Around East London the largest group asking is homeowners, which usually means making hollow blocks for a long boundary wall or a garage at home. Before you agree to anything: blocks for sale should meet SANS 1215. Getting stock here: bricks by truck from local yards; sand from pits and quarries inland.
Service area: East London and surrounds
Our network covers East London together with Mdantsane, Bhisho, Qonce, Beacon Bay, Gonubie, Vincent, Nahoon. A street address helps a supplier work out the delivery before quoting.