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Building Sand in Johannesburg
Need building sand in Johannesburg? 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 Johannesburg, Gauteng can quote a delivered price per load.
Want to know more first? Our building sand guide covers the types, the sizes and what affects the price.
Supplies & services in Johannesburg: local notes
Bricklayers in Soweto and Eldorado Park usually quote per 1,000 bricks laid or per room, and many bring their own mixer. Sand comes by tipper from pits south of the city, so ask whether the price is for plaster sand or building sand and whether it is a full 6 m³ load. Paving contractors work steadily in Diepkloof and Pimville on driveways, and repairers in Booysens rebuild worn moulds and motors.
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 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
- Brickyards and block yards: steady tipper loads of crusher and river sand to keep the machines running
Local tips for Johannesburg
Most asked for in Johannesburg: cement maxi bricks for backyard rooms, face brick to match older suburbs. Where the yards and suppliers are: block yards in Soweto, yards and hardware stores along Main Reef Road and in Booysens. A useful tip: ask the yard whether the bricks were cured a full week before they left the slab.
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: frost on winter mornings and hard summer storms; cover fresh bricks for the first week.
Service area: Johannesburg and surrounds
Suppliers and contractors on our network work in Johannesburg and surrounding areas, including Sandton, Randburg, Roodepoort, Soweto, Rosebank, Fourways, Melville. Give the suburb or township and whether a big truck can get in, so the quote can allow for delivery and offloading.