Phoning around East London for the right supplier or team at a fair price takes time. Send one request instead, with what you need and how much, and we pass it to refractory suppliers who work in East London and nearby areas of Eastern Cape.
Fire Bricks in East London
Looking for fire bricks in East London? 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 East London, Eastern Cape can quote the bricks and the refractory mortar together.
New to this? Read the fire bricks guide for the choices and the points worth checking before you pay.
East London notes on supplies & services
Bricklayers and builders cover the city out to Gonubie and Kidd's Beach, quoting per square metre or per 1,000 bricks laid. Paving contractors lay driveways and complex roads in Beacon Bay and Gonubie. Building sand comes by tipper from pits inland. Interlocking bricks draw interest for village houses, and repairers in Wilsonia can rebuild worn moulds and fix vibrator motors.
East London: the building, the weather and the yards
On the banks of the Buffalo River, East London is a port city with a big housing need around it. Mdantsane, one of the largest townships in the country, builds constantly: new rooms, boundary walls, spaza shops and family houses, mostly in cement blocks. Beacon Bay, Gonubie and Nahoon have face brick homes and newer complexes, and the industrial development zone on the West Bank draws factory and warehouse work. The coast is humid with rain spread through the year, so cement bricks cure slowly and face brick near the sea shows salt. Block yards and stores sit in Wilsonia and the West Bank, and small yards in Mdantsane and Duncan Village make blocks for neighbours.
The requests we see from East London 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
- Brickyards and block yards: a yard stocking fire bricks and refractory mortar beside its building bricks
Local tips for East London
Most asked for in East London: cement blocks for homes and walls in Mdantsane, face brick for the suburbs. Where the yards and suppliers are: yards and stores in Wilsonia and the West Bank, small yards in Mdantsane. A useful tip: ask how long blocks were cured, since damp weather slows curing here.
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 coast with rain through the year; cover bricks and allow longer curing.
Service area: East London and surrounds
Our network covers East London together with Mdantsane, Bhisho, Qonce, Beacon Bay, Gonubie, Vincent, Nahoon. A street address helps a supplier work out the delivery before quoting.