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Building Sand in Gauteng
Need building sand in Gauteng? Say which sand it is for (mortar, plaster, concrete or brick making), how many cubic metres, the delivery address and whether a tipper can get in. Sand suppliers around Gauteng, Gauteng can quote a delivered price per load.
New to this? Read the building sand guide for the choices and the points worth checking before you pay.
What to know locally in Gauteng
Bricklaying teams quote across both metros, usually per square metre or per 1,000 bricks laid, and paving contractors are busiest on driveways in Centurion, Kempton Park and Roodepoort. Plaster and building sand arrive by tipper from pits around Meyerton, Walkerville and the West Rand. Fire bricks for braais and pizza ovens are sold through refractory suppliers in the East Rand, and mobile repairers rebuild worn moulds and swap vibrator motors on site.
Bricks, blocks and brick making in Gauteng
Johannesburg started out with a brickfields of its own, and the province has never stopped building. Today the demand is spread across township extensions in Soshanguve, Tembisa and Diepsloot, back rooms and boundary walls in Soweto and Mamelodi, estates and complexes in Midrand, Centurion and Lanseria, and factories from Germiston to Rosslyn. Cement brick and block yards sit on the edge of nearly every township, many of them small businesses running an egg-laying machine on a home slab, while clay brickyards and machine sellers work from the industrial belts. Sand comes in by tipper from pits south and west of the metros. Highveld frost in winter and violent summer storms are the two things to cover fresh bricks against.
The requests we see from Gauteng usually come from:
- Homeowners: a tipper of building sand and a load of plaster sand for an extension
- Builders and bricklaying contractors: regular sand deliveries to several sites, mortar and plaster sand kept apart
- Housing developers and complexes: sand supply planned per phase for a housing project or a complex
Local tips for Gauteng
Yards and suppliers serving Gauteng mostly work from here: block yards in every township; clay yards and machine sellers in the industrial belts. The requests that come up most: cement maxi bricks for back rooms, face brick for estates, brick machines for startups. When you ask for quotes, ask whether the price is at the yard or delivered, and who offloads the pallets.
Building Sand usually suit mortar, plaster, concrete and brick making, made or supplied like this: pit, river and crusher sand by the m³. For homeowners, the biggest group here, that usually means a tipper of building sand and a load of plaster sand for an extension. On the weather side: hard winter frost on fresh bricks; summer storms wash out uncovered curing rows.
Service area: Gauteng and surrounds
Across Gauteng our network reaches Johannesburg, Pretoria, Ekurhuleni, Sedibeng, West Rand, Midrand, Centurion and the towns between them. Outside the bigger centres, ask whether delivery is charged per kilometre or per load.