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Second Hand Brick Machines in Cape Town
Looking for a second hand brick making machine near Cape Town? Say what you want it to make, the most you want to spend, your power supply and whether you can collect. Sellers and suppliers with used stock in Cape Town and around Western Cape will tell you what they have and its condition.
New to this? Read the second hand brick machines guide for the choices and the points worth checking before you pay.
Machines & equipment in Cape Town: local notes
Small yards on the Cape Flats often run electric egg-laying machines on a home slab in Philippi, Delft or Khayelitsha. Winter rain is the risk: build a roof over the curing area or cover the rows, and never stack wet, soft bricks. Workshops in Epping and Montague Gardens can repair frames and rewind motors. Near the coast, keep machines under cover and rinse off salt after a shift.
Cape Town: the building, the weather and the yards
Winter rain is what Cape Town brickmakers plan around. From May to August, cold fronts can soak fresh bricks for days, while the summer south-easter dries them too fast, so yards cover rows in both seasons. Cement blocks and maxi bricks dominate, building new rooms and backyard units in Khayelitsha, Mitchells Plain, Delft and Gugulethu, while face brick and stock bricks go into homes and complexes in the northern and southern suburbs. Block yards and stores cluster in Epping, Montague Gardens and Philippi, sand comes from the Cape Flats and pits around the city, and salt air on the Atlantic seaboard and False Bay coast causes efflorescence on face brick.
The requests we see from Cape Town usually come from:
- Homeowners: a cheap used press for making bricks for one building project at home
- Builders and bricklaying contractors: a used machine to make bricks on a remote site, sold on afterwards
- Housing developers and complexes: used static machines bought for a single housing phase and resold after
Local tips for Cape Town
Common here: cement blocks and maxi bricks for backyard rooms, face brick for suburbs. Ask each supplier or contractor about this: ask whether bricks were cured under cover during the winter rains. Where they work from: block yards and stores in Epping, Montague Gardens, Philippi and Parow.
Second Hand Brick Machines usually suit start-ups and yards on a tight budget, made or supplied like this: used manual, electric and static machines. For homeowners, the biggest group here, that usually means a cheap used press for making bricks for one building project at home. On the weather side: winter rain soaks fresh bricks; the summer south-easter dries them too fast.
Service area: Cape Town and surrounds
Our network covers Cape Town together with Century City, Woodstock, Epping, Montague Gardens, Paarden Eiland, Claremont, Salt River. A street address helps a seller work out the delivery before quoting.