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 towns and cities across Eastern Cape.
Block Making Machines in Eastern Cape
Want a block making machine in Eastern Cape? 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 Eastern Cape and around Eastern 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.
Eastern Cape notes on machines & equipment
Small block yards in Mthatha, Butterworth and Lusikisiki often run a manual or engine driven egg-laying machine, as rural power can be patchy. Machine sellers and engineering workshops in Gqeberha's Struandale and East London's industrial areas stock moulds, mixers and spares. Salt wind rusts machine frames near the coast, and a windbreak or cover over the slab helps bricks cure evenly.
Bricks, blocks and brick making in Eastern Cape
Two very different building worlds sit side by side in the Eastern Cape. Along the coast, Gqeberha and East London build suburbs, complexes and factories, holiday homes go up at Jeffreys Bay, Kenton-on-Sea and Port Alfred, and townships such as Motherwell, Kwazakhele and Mdantsane keep extending. Inland and in the former Transkei, around Mthatha, Butterworth, Lusikisiki and Mount Frere, rural homes and rondavels are built in cement blocks from village yards, many of them one-machine businesses. The Karoo towns of Graaff-Reinet and Cradock build farm sheds and match old brickwork. Strong wind dries fresh bricks fast, salt air stains face brick on the coast, and the high ground near Komani gets frost.
The requests we see from Eastern Cape 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
- New brick-making businesses: a small block machine selling 140 mm blocks to local builders and homeowners
Local tips for Eastern Cape
Most asked for in Eastern Cape: cement blocks for rural homes, maxi bricks in the metros, face brick on the coast. Where the yards and suppliers are: yards in Gqeberha, East London and Mthatha; small block yards in most villages. A useful tip: in windy weather, ask the yard how long the bricks were kept damp before delivery.
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: strong wind dries fresh bricks; coastal salt on face brick; frost inland.
Service area: Eastern Cape and surrounds
Suppliers and contractors on our network work throughout Eastern Cape, including Gqeberha, East London, Mthatha, Makhanda, Jeffreys Bay, Port Alfred, Graaff-Reinet. For farms and smaller towns, ask whether delivery is in the price and how far the truck travels.