Start a Community Blockyard !

From personal projects (such as house extensions, boundary walls, driveway paving, etc) to commercial block production with the intention of selling bricks to make money - It is always worth deciding on whether starting your own brickyard is a feasible solution.

BRICKYARD BENEFITS

Some immediate possible benefits to be seen are:

• Full control over your own product quality
• Regulation of the production delivery to safeguard against delayed supply
• Flexible production output to adjust with the need of bricks - if more will be required you can simply increase production and vice versa to lower production and save costs.

Other community spin-off benefits are:

• Provide sustainable employment opportunities
• Cultivate new skill development for brickyard operations & brick-manufacture
• Offer the community new building materials to uplift the development in the area
• Improve community pride with the presence of a brick machine, which acts as a symbol of new growth & development

BEFORE MAKING BRICKS

There are a few considerations before just purchasing your brick machine, presumably from Doubell Machines:

• Do you have a quarry or source of sand/grit nearby?
• Do you have access to good quality cement?
• Do you have enough water available (or that can be transported) on site for the curing process?
• Have you considered the price / quality / availability of the local supply of bricks?
• Do you have the resources to sustain brick production? (manpower, working capital, brickyard area)
• Is there a market for your bricks, blocks or pavers in the local area?

Once you pass the feasibility phase, you can begin the learning curve of the practical operation of a blockyard, which you will find to be easier than you currently think!

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