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Retaining Wall Blocks in Sandton
Retaining wall blocks in Sandton: give the wall length, the height of soil to hold back, plantable or rock face blocks, and whether you want supply only or a built wall. Block yards and landscapers around Sandton, Gauteng can quote and say whether an engineer is needed.
New to this? Read the retaining wall blocks guide for the choices and the points worth checking before you pay.
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.
The requests we see from Sandton usually come from:
- Homeowners: terracing a sloping garden or holding back the bank beside a driveway
- Builders and bricklaying contractors: retaining walls on sloping plots before the house platform is built
- Housing developers and complexes: terraced retaining walls on hillside estates and along internal roads
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.
Around Sandton the largest group asking is homeowners, which usually means terracing a sloping garden or holding back the bank beside a driveway. Before you agree to anything: tall or loaded walls need an engineer. 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.