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Fire Bricks in Free State
Looking for fire bricks in Free State? 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 Free State, Free State 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.
Supplies & services in Free State: local notes
Bricklaying teams in Bloemfontein, Welkom and Bethlehem quote per square metre or per 1,000 bricks laid, and paving contractors are busy on driveways and church yards across the city. Building sand comes from pits near the Modder and Vaal rivers and local quarries. Fire bricks are used in farm boilers and braai rooms, and mobile repairers from Bloemfontein cover the N1 towns for worn moulds.
Free State: the building, the weather and the yards
Sandstone farmhouses in the eastern Free State and red face brick in Bloemfontein tell you the province has always built with what the ground offers. Today the busiest orders come from the townships and new housing around Bloemfontein, Botshabelo and Thaba Nchu, from Welkom and Virginia where old mine houses are extended and rented, and from Phuthaditjhaba in Qwaqwa where families build in stages. Kroonstad, Bethlehem and Sasolburg have their own yards and builders, and grain and cattle farms order blocks for sheds and staff housing. Cement brick and block yards work the edges of most towns. Hard winter frost and summer hail are real threats to bricks that have not cured.
Typical fire bricks requests in the area come from:
- Homeowners: fire bricks for a garden pizza oven, a built-in braai or a fireplace
- Farms and smallholdings: fire bricks for a farm kitchen oven, a boiler or a braai at the lapa
- Builders and bricklaying contractors: fire brick linings for fireplaces and braai areas in new houses
Local tips for Free State
Most asked for in Free State: maxi bricks for township homes, farm shed blocks, face brick to match older homes. Where the yards and suppliers are: yards in Bloemfontein, Welkom, Bethlehem and Sasolburg; small yards near every town. A useful tip: in winter, ask the yard how it protects bricks from frost before they leave.
Around Free State the largest group asking is homeowners, which usually means fire bricks for a garden pizza oven, a built-in braai or a fireplace. Before you agree to anything: lay with refractory mortar or fireclay. Getting stock here: yards deliver along the N1, N3 and N5; farms often take full truck loads.
Service area: Free State and surrounds
Suppliers and contractors on our network work throughout Free State, including Bloemfontein, Welkom, Kroonstad, Bethlehem, Sasolburg, Harrismith, Clarens. For farms and smaller towns, ask whether delivery is in the price and how far the truck travels.