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.
Brick Making Machines in Johannesburg
Looking for brick making machines in Johannesburg? 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 Johannesburg and around Gauteng will quote the machine, moulds and delivery.
Want to know more first? Our brick making machines guide covers the types, the sizes and what affects the price.
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.
Johannesburg: the building, the weather and the yards
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: 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
- Brickyards and block yards: adding a second machine or a new mould to keep up with orders from builders
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.
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: frost on winter mornings and hard summer storms; cover fresh bricks for the first week.
Service area: Johannesburg and surrounds
Requests from Johannesburg go to yards and suppliers that already deliver to Sandton, Randburg, Roodepoort, Soweto, Rosebank, Fourways, Melville and the rest of the area. Mention a narrow street, a steep site or an estate with delivery hours, because they change the price.