Whether it is one load of sand or a whole house to brick up, our free service makes it easy to price building sand in Sandton. Your request goes to a supplier serving Sandton and nearby areas of Gauteng.
Building Sand in Sandton
Need building sand in Sandton? 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 Sandton, 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.
Supplies & services in Sandton: local notes
Bricklayers in Sandton suburbs should be used to working neatly next to finished gardens and pools, so ask for photos of face brick work. Paving contractors redo driveways in Sunninghill and Paulshof, and fire bricks are popular for braai areas and pizza ovens in Bryanston. Glass blocks come up in bathroom renovations in Illovo. Sand is best ordered in smaller loads where estates limit tipper access.
Sandton: the building, the weather and the yards
Two very different building markets sit side by side in Sandton. In Bryanston, Morningside, Hyde Park and Rivonia, the brick work is renovation: a face brick wing added to a 1970s house, a higher boundary wall, a pool house, or a stoep closed in with matching brick. In Alexandra, across the M1, families build backyard rooms and extra storeys on small stands, mostly in cement maxi bricks and blocks carried in on narrow streets. Tower cranes around the Sandton CBD use blocks by the truckload. Few yards sit in Sandton itself, so deliveries come from Wynberg, Marlboro and Kya Sand. Frost is light here but summer hailstorms can damage uncovered pallets.
Who asks for building sand around Sandton, most often first:
- 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 Sandton
Common here: face brick to match renovations, boundary walls, cement bricks in Alexandra. Ask each supplier or contractor about this: ask whether the truck fits the estate gate and what the delivery hours are. Where they work from: yards and hardware stores in Wynberg, Marlboro and Kya Sand serve most of Sandton.
Around Sandton the largest group asking is homeowners, which usually means a tipper of building sand and a load of plaster sand for an extension. Before you agree to anything: clean sand: no clay, soil or roots. Getting stock here: trucks from Marlboro and Wynberg; some estates limit truck size and delivery hours.
Service area: Sandton and surrounds
Requests from Sandton go to yards and suppliers that already deliver to Bryanston, Hyde Park, Morningside, Rivonia, Sunninghill, Illovo, Alexandra and the rest of the area. Mention a narrow street, a steep site or an estate with delivery hours, because they change the price.