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 Johannesburg and nearby areas of Gauteng.
Block Making Machines in Johannesburg
Want a block making machine in Johannesburg? 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 Johannesburg and around Gauteng 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.
Johannesburg notes on machines & equipment
Many small brick businesses in Soweto, Orange Farm and Lenasia started with an egg-laying machine on a slab behind a house, selling to the street and to builders nearby. Single phase electric machines suit a residential stand; a three phase static machine needs a bigger yard, like the light industrial stands around Booysens and Crown Mines. Second hand machines change hands often in the city, so check the mould for wear and the vibrator motor before you pay.
Bricks, blocks and brick making in Johannesburg
Soweto sets the pace for brick demand in Johannesburg. Across Orlando, Diepkloof, Meadowlands and Protea Glen, families add backyard rooms, second storeys and boundary walls one pallet at a time, and small block yards on open stands make cement bricks to order for the street. Further north, older suburbs like Melville, Westdene and Kensington call for matching red face brick when a stoep is closed in or a garage is added. Along the Main Reef Road and in Booysens and City Deep, yards and hardware stores sit near the old mine dumps, close to most of the city. Highveld winters bring frost on still mornings, so fresh cement bricks need covering, and summer storms can wash out a slab of uncured bricks in minutes.
The requests we see from Johannesburg 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
- Brickyards and block yards: adding hollow blocks to a brick range so builders buy everything in one place
Local tips for Johannesburg
Common here: cement maxi bricks for backyard rooms, face brick to match older suburbs. Ask each supplier or contractor about this: ask the yard whether the bricks were cured a full week before they left the slab. Where they work from: block yards in Soweto, yards and hardware stores along Main Reef Road and in Booysens.
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: frost on winter mornings and hard summer storms; cover fresh bricks for the first week.
Service area: Johannesburg and surrounds
Our network covers Johannesburg together with Sandton, Randburg, Roodepoort, Soweto, Rosebank, Fourways, Melville. A street address helps a supplier work out the delivery before quoting.