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Cement Bricks in Sandton
Cement bricks in Sandton: say the number of bricks, the strength your plans ask for and the delivery address. Block yards and small brick makers around Sandton, Gauteng can quote per 1,000 at the yard or delivered, and tell you how long the bricks have cured.
Want to know more first? Our cement bricks guide covers the types, the sizes and what affects the price.
What to know locally in Sandton
A Bryanston or Morningside renovation usually starts with a loose face brick taken to the yard to find a match, because colour shifts from batch to batch. Boundary walls in Rivonia and Hyde Park are often raised with blocks and plastered, with brick piers. In Alexandra, cement maxi bricks and 140 mm blocks carry most of the backyard rooms. High-rise sites around the CBD use blocks for infill walls between concrete frames.
Bricks, blocks and brick making in Sandton
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.
The requests we see from Sandton usually come from:
- Homeowners: cement bricks for an extension, a garage or a plastered boundary wall
- Builders and bricklaying contractors: bulk cement stock bricks from a nearby yard to cut transport costs
- Housing developers and complexes: cement bricks of a set strength for RDP and social housing phases
Local tips for Sandton
Yards and suppliers serving Sandton mostly work from here: yards and hardware stores in Wynberg, Marlboro and Kya Sand serve most of Sandton. The requests that come up most: face brick to match renovations, boundary walls, cement bricks in Alexandra. When you ask for quotes, ask whether the truck fits the estate gate and what the delivery hours are.
Cement Bricks usually suit plastered house walls, extensions and walls, made or supplied like this: cement, sand and water pressed and cured. For homeowners, the biggest group here, that usually means cement bricks for an extension, a garage or a plastered boundary wall. On the weather side: mild frost, summer hail and storms; cover pallets and fresh brickwork.
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.