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Fire Bricks in Durban
Looking for fire bricks in Durban? Say what you are building (pizza oven, braai, fireplace, kiln or furnace), how hot it runs, dense or insulating, and how many. Refractory suppliers around Durban, KwaZulu-Natal can quote the bricks and the refractory mortar together.
Want to know more first? Our fire bricks guide covers the types, the sizes and what affects the price.
Supplies & services in Durban: local notes
Bricklayers and paving contractors work right across the metro, from driveways in Durban North and Westville to retaining walls on the steep plots of Chatsworth and Shallcross. Plaster sand and building sand usually arrive by tipper from pits and quarries inland. Fire bricks for braais and pizza ovens are easy to find, and glass blocks turn up in bathroom panels in older flats. Repairers can rewind vibrator motors and rebuild worn moulds in the industrial areas around Jacobs and Mobeni.
Durban: the building, the weather and the yards
Humidity is the first thing a Durban builder plans around. Cement bricks and blocks cure slowly in the damp, sticky air, and summer downpours can wash out a fresh slab of bricks in an afternoon, so yards cover their rows and keep stock on pallets longer. Most of the metro builds in cement blocks and maxi bricks: extensions in Chatsworth and Phoenix, new rooms and boundary walls in Umlazi and KwaMashu, and complexes going up around Umhlanga and Cornubia. Face brick near the beachfront and the Bluff often shows white efflorescence from the salt air, and steel on brick machines rusts quickly. Block yards sit along the industrial belts in Jacobs, Prospecton and Riverhorse Valley, and tippers bring sand in from inland.
The requests we see from Durban usually come from:
- Homeowners: fire bricks for a garden pizza oven, a built-in braai or a fireplace
- Builders and bricklaying contractors: fire brick linings for fireplaces and braai areas in new houses
- Housing developers and complexes: fireplaces and communal braai areas lined with fire bricks across an estate
Local tips for Durban
Common here: cement blocks and maxi bricks for extensions, boundary walls and complexes. Ask each supplier or contractor about this: ask how long the bricks were cured and whether they were kept covered in the rain. Where they work from: block yards in Jacobs, Prospecton and Riverhorse Valley, sand yards inland.
Fire Bricks usually suit pizza ovens, braais, fireplaces and kilns, made or supplied like this: fired refractory clay, dense or insulating. For homeowners, the biggest group here, that usually means fire bricks for a garden pizza oven, a built-in braai or a fireplace. On the weather side: humid air slows curing; summer storms wash out fresh bricks, so cover rows.
Service area: Durban and surrounds
Requests from Durban go to yards and suppliers that already deliver to Umhlanga, Pinetown, Westville, Umlazi, Phoenix, Chatsworth, Berea and the rest of the area. Mention a narrow street, a steep site or an estate with delivery hours, because they change the price.