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Block Making Machines in Free State
Want a block making machine in Free State? 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 Free State and around Free State will quote the machine, moulds and setting up.
The main block making machines page explains the options, the standards and the costs in more detail.
What to know locally in Free State
Small yards in Botshabelo, Phuthaditjhaba and Kroonstad's Maokeng often run an egg-laying machine on a home slab. Machine sellers and engineering workshops in Bloemfontein's Hamilton and Bloemdustria, and around Sasolburg, keep moulds, mixers and vibrator motors. Frost means curing under cover from May to August, so many yards add a roofed slab or plastic sheeting to keep winter production going.
Building with brick in Free State
Sandstone farmhouses in the eastern Free State and red face brick in Bloemfontein tell you the province has always built with what the ground offers. Today the busiest orders come from the townships and new housing around Bloemfontein, Botshabelo and Thaba Nchu, from Welkom and Virginia where old mine houses are extended and rented, and from Phuthaditjhaba in Qwaqwa where families build in stages. Kroonstad, Bethlehem and Sasolburg have their own yards and builders, and grain and cattle farms order blocks for sheds and staff housing. Cement brick and block yards work the edges of most towns. Hard winter frost and summer hail are real threats to bricks that have not cured.
Who asks for block making machines around Free State, most often first:
- Homeowners: making hollow blocks for a long boundary wall or a garage at home
- Farms and smallholdings: blocks for stores, pump houses, dairy sheds and farm boundary walls
- Builders and bricklaying contractors: blocks made on site for boundary walls, outbuildings and quick structural walls
Local tips for Free State
Yards and suppliers serving Free State mostly work from here: yards in Bloemfontein, Welkom, Bethlehem and Sasolburg; small yards near every town. The requests that come up most: maxi bricks for township homes, farm shed blocks, face brick to match older homes. When you ask for quotes, in winter, ask the yard how it protects bricks from frost before they leave.
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: hard frost on fresh bricks in winter; summer hail and storms on curing rows.
Service area: Free State and surrounds
We pass Free State requests to suppliers based in or regularly delivering to Bloemfontein, Welkom, Kroonstad, Bethlehem, Sasolburg, Harrismith, Clarens. Farm and rural requests should give the nearest town and the farm name, so delivery is quoted honestly.