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 brick making plants in Cape Town. Your request goes to a supplier serving Cape Town and nearby areas of Western Cape.
Brick Making Plants in Cape Town
Planning a brick making plant in Cape Town? Say what you will make, the volume you are aiming for, semi or fully automatic, the power on your site and whether a used plant would do. Suppliers who install in Cape Town and around Western Cape will quote the line, setting up and training.
The main brick making plants page explains the options, the standards and the costs in more detail.
Machines & equipment in Cape Town: local notes
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 plants requests in the area come from:
- Homeowners: rarely needed for a house; plants supply the yards that homeowners buy from
- Builders and bricklaying contractors: a contractor setting up its own plant for a steady stream of large jobs
- Housing developers and complexes: an on-site or nearby plant supplying bricks and blocks for a large housing development
Local tips for Cape Town
Most asked for in Cape Town: cement blocks and maxi bricks for backyard rooms, face brick for suburbs. Where the yards and suppliers are: block yards and stores in Epping, Montague Gardens, Philippi and Parow. A useful tip: ask whether bricks were cured under cover during the winter rains.
Around Cape Town the largest group asking is homeowners, which usually means rarely needed for a house; plants supply the yards that homeowners buy from. Before you agree to anything: test units to SANS 1215 or SANS 1058. Getting stock here: bricks by flatbed with crane across the metro; Cape Flats sand by tipper.
Service area: Cape Town and surrounds
Suppliers and contractors on our network work in Cape Town and surrounding areas, including Century City, Woodstock, Epping, Montague Gardens, Paarden Eiland, Claremont, Salt River. Give the suburb or township and whether a big truck can get in, so the quote can allow for delivery and offloading.