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Concrete Blocks in Sandton
Concrete blocks in Sandton: say the width (90, 140 or 190 mm), hollow or solid, the number or the wall size, and the delivery address. Block yards around Sandton, Gauteng can quote per block collected or delivered and say how many blocks a pallet holds.
The main concrete blocks page explains the options, the standards and the costs in more detail.
Bricks & blocks in Sandton: local notes
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.
Typical concrete blocks requests in the area 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
- Housing developers and complexes: hollow blocks for estate perimeter walls and complex boundary walls
Local tips for Sandton
Most asked for in Sandton: face brick to match renovations, boundary walls, cement bricks in Alexandra. Where the yards and suppliers are: yards and hardware stores in Wynberg, Marlboro and Kya Sand serve most of Sandton. A useful tip: ask whether the truck fits the estate gate and what the delivery hours are.
Concrete Blocks usually suit boundary walls, outbuildings and houses, made or supplied like this: cement, sand and stone pressed and cured. For homeowners, the biggest group here, that usually means 140 mm hollow blocks for a boundary wall, garage or back room. 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.