Whether it is one load of sand or a whole house to brick up, our free service makes it easy to price fire bricks in Johannesburg. Your request goes to a supplier serving Johannesburg and nearby areas of Gauteng.
Fire Bricks in Johannesburg
Looking for fire bricks in Johannesburg? 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 Johannesburg, Gauteng can quote the bricks and the refractory mortar together.
The main fire bricks page explains the options, the standards and the costs in more detail.
What to know locally in Johannesburg
Bricklayers in Soweto and Eldorado Park usually quote per 1,000 bricks laid or per room, and many bring their own mixer. Sand comes by tipper from pits south of the city, so ask whether the price is for plaster sand or building sand and whether it is a full 6 m³ load. Paving contractors work steadily in Diepkloof and Pimville on driveways, and repairers in Booysens rebuild worn moulds and motors.
Bricks, blocks and brick making 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.
Who asks for fire bricks around Johannesburg, most often first:
- 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 Johannesburg
Yards and suppliers serving Johannesburg mostly work from here: block yards in Soweto, yards and hardware stores along Main Reef Road and in Booysens. The requests that come up most: cement maxi bricks for backyard rooms, face brick to match older suburbs. When you ask for quotes, ask the yard whether the bricks were cured a full week before they left the slab.
Around Johannesburg 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 spread through the city; tippers bring sand from pits south and west of town.
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.