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Concrete Blocks in Johannesburg
Concrete blocks in Johannesburg: say the width (90, 140 or 190 mm), hollow or solid, the number or the wall size, and the delivery address. Block yards around Johannesburg, Gauteng can quote per block collected or delivered and say how many blocks a pallet holds.
New to this? Read the concrete blocks guide for the choices and the points worth checking before you pay.
What to know locally in Johannesburg
Backyard rooms in Soweto, Alexandra and Riverlea are mostly built in cement maxi bricks or hollow blocks, then plastered, because they go up fast. In Melville, Parkview and Emmarentia the job is usually a face brick extension that has to sit next to brick laid decades ago, so take a loose brick to the yard and order the whole lot at once. Boundary walls in Rosettenville and Turffontein often mix blocks with face brick piers.
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: 140 mm hollow blocks for a boundary wall, garage or back room
- Builders and bricklaying contractors: block walls on outbuildings and houses that go up in fewer courses
- Brickyards and block yards: block yards making 140 and 190 mm hollow blocks on static machines
Local tips for Johannesburg
Common here: cement maxi bricks for backyard rooms, face brick to match older suburbs. Ask each supplier or contractor about this: ask the yard whether the bricks were cured a full week before they left the slab. Where they work from: block yards in Soweto, yards and hardware stores along Main Reef Road and in Booysens.
Around Johannesburg the largest group asking is homeowners, which usually means 140 mm hollow blocks for a boundary wall, garage or back room. Before you agree to anything: concrete masonry units to SANS 1215. Getting stock here: yards spread through the city; tippers bring sand from pits south and west of town.
Service area: Johannesburg and surrounds
Our network covers Johannesburg together with Sandton, Randburg, Roodepoort, Soweto, Rosebank, Fourways, Melville. A street address helps a supplier work out the delivery before quoting.