Whether it is one manual machine for a start-up yard or a line for a busy plant, our free service makes it easy to price block making machines in Western Cape. Your request goes to a supplier serving towns and cities across Western Cape.
Block Making Machines in Western Cape
Want a block making machine in Western 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 Western Cape and around Western 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.
Western Cape notes on machines & equipment
Small yards in Philippi, Mfuleni and Atlantis run egg-laying and static machines, and some sell pavers from the same slab. Machine sellers and engineering workshops in Epping, Montague Gardens and Blackheath stock moulds, mixers and spares. Through the wet winter, a roofed curing area keeps production going, and near the coast the south easter rusts bare steel, so clean and paint machine frames.
Bricks, blocks and brick making in Western Cape
Winter rain, not frost, is the main enemy of fresh bricks in the Western Cape. From May to August, curing rows in the Cape Flats and Winelands need covering, and bricklayers plan around wet weeks. The metro builds everywhere at once: backyard rooms in Khayelitsha, Mitchells Plain and Delft, complexes in Parklands, Kraaifontein and Somerset West, and alterations to Victorian homes in the Southern Suburbs. Sand has long come from the Philippi area and the dunes of the Cape Flats, and clay brickyards work the shale belt north of the city. Stellenbosch, Paarl, Worcester and George add wine farms, student housing and Garden Route homes, and the south easter carries salt spray well inland.
Who asks for block making machines around Western Cape, 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
- Housing developers and complexes: a static block machine supplying blocks for estate walls and housing phases
Local tips for Western Cape
Common here: cement blocks for backyard rooms, clay face brick for complexes and alterations. Ask each supplier or contractor about this: in winter, ask how the yard covers its stock and whether bricks arrive dry. Where they work from: yards on the Cape Flats and northern edge of the metro; trades in the Winelands and George.
Around Western Cape 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: yards deliver across the metro by crane truck; sand from pits on the Cape Flats.
Service area: Western Cape and surrounds
Across Western Cape our network reaches Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, George, Knysna, Hermanus, Worcester and the towns between them. Outside the bigger centres, ask whether delivery is charged per kilometre or per load.