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Concrete Blocks in Limpopo
Concrete blocks in Limpopo: say the width (90, 140 or 190 mm), hollow or solid, the number or the wall size, and the delivery address. Block yards around Limpopo, Limpopo can quote per block collected or delivered and say how many blocks a pallet holds.
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What to know locally in Limpopo
Self-built homes around Giyani, Elim and Jane Furse are mostly hollow blocks and cement maxi bricks, plastered when the roof is on. Suburbs in Polokwane such as Bendor and Flora Park, and newer estates on the city edge, use face brick and paving. Government clinics and schools across Sekhukhune and Vhembe call for tested cement blocks, and lodge builders near Vaalwater and Hoedspruit order clay face brick for walls left unplastered.
Bricks, blocks and brick making in Limpopo
Village by village, Limpopo builds its homes one course at a time. In Vhembe, Mopani and Sekhukhune, families put up rooms and then whole houses as money comes in, often with cement blocks from a yard down the road, which makes the province full of small brick-making businesses. Polokwane, Seshego, Mokopane, Tzaneen and Thohoyandou add suburbs, shopping centres and government buildings, and Lephalale and Steelpoort have mine and power station housing. Lodges in the Waterberg and near Hoedspruit build in face brick, stone and thatch. The heat is the big caution here: fresh cement bricks dry out and crack in a day unless they are shaded and kept damp.
The requests we see from Limpopo usually come from:
- Homeowners: 140 mm hollow blocks for a boundary wall, garage or back room
- New brick-making businesses: a small block making business supplying builders with 140 mm hollow blocks
- Brickyards and block yards: block yards making 140 and 190 mm hollow blocks on static machines
Local tips for Limpopo
Yards and suppliers serving Limpopo mostly work from here: village block yards across the province; machine sellers mainly in Polokwane. The requests that come up most: cement blocks for self-built village homes, small brick-making startups. When you ask for quotes, ask the yard how many days its bricks have cured before they leave the slab.
Around Limpopo 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: bricks move by flatbed along the N1, R71 and R81; long hauls to outlying villages.
Service area: Limpopo and surrounds
Across Limpopo our network reaches Polokwane, Tzaneen, Mokopane, Lephalale, Hoedspruit, Thohoyandou, Phalaborwa and the towns between them. Outside the bigger centres, ask whether delivery is charged per kilometre or per load.