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Brick Making Machines in Cape Town
Looking for brick making machines in Cape Town? Say what you want to make (stock bricks, maxi bricks, blocks or pavers), the power you have, egg-laying or static, and roughly how many bricks you hope to make a day. Suppliers who deliver to Cape Town and around Western Cape will quote the machine, moulds and delivery.
New to this? Read the brick making machines guide for the choices and the points worth checking before you pay.
Cape Town notes on machines & equipment
Small yards on the Cape Flats often run electric egg-laying machines on a home slab in Philippi, Delft or Khayelitsha. Winter rain is the risk: build a roof over the curing area or cover the rows, and never stack wet, soft bricks. Workshops in Epping and Montague Gardens can repair frames and rewind motors. Near the coast, keep machines under cover and rinse off salt after a shift.
Building with brick in Cape Town
Winter rain is what Cape Town brickmakers plan around. From May to August, cold fronts can soak fresh bricks for days, while the summer south-easter dries them too fast, so yards cover rows in both seasons. Cement blocks and maxi bricks dominate, building new rooms and backyard units in Khayelitsha, Mitchells Plain, Delft and Gugulethu, while face brick and stock bricks go into homes and complexes in the northern and southern suburbs. Block yards and stores cluster in Epping, Montague Gardens and Philippi, sand comes from the Cape Flats and pits around the city, and salt air on the Atlantic seaboard and False Bay coast causes efflorescence on face brick.
Typical brick making machines requests in the area come from:
- Homeowners: a small machine to make your own bricks for a house, outbuilding or boundary wall
- Builders and bricklaying contractors: making cement bricks on site for a job instead of trucking pallets in
- Housing developers and complexes: a static or hydraulic machine supplying bricks across a housing project or township extension
Local tips for Cape Town
Common here: cement blocks and maxi bricks for backyard rooms, face brick for suburbs. Ask each supplier or contractor about this: ask whether bricks were cured under cover during the winter rains. Where they work from: block yards and stores in Epping, Montague Gardens, Philippi and Parow.
Brick Making Machines usually suit brickyards, start-ups, builders and farms, made or supplied like this: damp mix vibrated or pressed in a steel mould. For homeowners, the biggest group here, that usually means a small machine to make your own bricks for a house, outbuilding or boundary wall. On the weather side: winter rain soaks fresh bricks; the summer south-easter dries them too fast.
Service area: Cape Town and surrounds
Requests from Cape Town go to yards and suppliers that already deliver to Century City, Woodstock, Epping, Montague Gardens, Paarden Eiland, Claremont, Salt River and the rest of the area. Mention a narrow street, a steep site or an estate with delivery hours, because they change the price.