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Second Hand Brick Machines in Johannesburg
Looking for a second hand brick making machine near Johannesburg? 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 Johannesburg and around Gauteng will tell you what they have and its condition.
Want to know more first? Our second hand brick machines guide covers the types, the sizes and what affects the price.
Johannesburg notes on machines & equipment
Many small brick businesses in Soweto, Orange Farm and Lenasia started with an egg-laying machine on a slab behind a house, selling to the street and to builders nearby. Single phase electric machines suit a residential stand; a three phase static machine needs a bigger yard, like the light industrial stands around Booysens and Crown Mines. Second hand machines change hands often in the city, so check the mould for wear and the vibrator motor before you pay.
Building with brick in Johannesburg
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.
Typical second hand brick machines requests in the area 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
- Brickyards and block yards: an extra used machine to cover busy months, or one bought for spare parts
Local tips for Johannesburg
Most asked for in Johannesburg: cement maxi bricks for backyard rooms, face brick to match older suburbs. Where the yards and suppliers are: block yards in Soweto, yards and hardware stores along Main Reef Road and in Booysens. A useful tip: ask the yard whether the bricks were cured a full week before they left the slab.
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: frost on winter mornings and hard summer storms; cover fresh bricks for the first week.
Service area: Johannesburg and surrounds
Requests from Johannesburg go to yards and suppliers that already deliver to Sandton, Randburg, Roodepoort, Soweto, Rosebank, Fourways, Melville and the rest of the area. Mention a narrow street, a steep site or an estate with delivery hours, because they change the price.