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 Gauteng.
Block Making Machines in Gauteng
Want a block making machine in Gauteng? 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 Gauteng and around Gauteng 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 Gauteng
Many small yards in Orange Farm, Ivory Park and Ga-Rankuwa started with one egg-laying machine on a home slab and a single phase vibrator. Machine sellers and mould makers work from the industrial areas of Germiston, Benoni, Wadeville and Rosslyn, and most keep moulds for maxis, blocks and pavers. Electric machines suit sites with power, but keep a petrol or diesel option in mind for plots on the edge of Hammanskraal or Bronkhorstspruit.
Building with brick in Gauteng
Johannesburg started out with a brickfields of its own, and the province has never stopped building. Today the demand is spread across township extensions in Soshanguve, Tembisa and Diepsloot, back rooms and boundary walls in Soweto and Mamelodi, estates and complexes in Midrand, Centurion and Lanseria, and factories from Germiston to Rosslyn. Cement brick and block yards sit on the edge of nearly every township, many of them small businesses running an egg-laying machine on a home slab, while clay brickyards and machine sellers work from the industrial belts. Sand comes in by tipper from pits south and west of the metros. Highveld frost in winter and violent summer storms are the two things to cover fresh bricks against.
The requests we see from Gauteng 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 Gauteng
Common here: cement maxi bricks for back rooms, face brick for estates, brick machines for startups. Ask each supplier or contractor about this: ask whether the price is at the yard or delivered, and who offloads the pallets. Where they work from: block yards in every township; clay yards and machine sellers in the industrial belts.
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 winter frost on fresh bricks; summer storms wash out uncovered curing rows.
Service area: Gauteng and surrounds
Across Gauteng our network reaches Johannesburg, Pretoria, Ekurhuleni, Sedibeng, West Rand, Midrand, Centurion and the towns between them. Outside the bigger centres, ask whether delivery is charged per kilometre or per load.