Phoning around Newcastle 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 Newcastle and nearby areas of KwaZulu-Natal.
Fire Bricks in Newcastle
Looking for fire bricks in Newcastle? 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 Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal 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 Newcastle: local notes
Bricklayers in Newcastle quote for everything from a single room in Osizweni to farm sheds near Charlestown. Paving contractors lay driveways and shop yards in town. River and pit sand is delivered by tipper from around the district. Fire bricks are useful in this cold area for fireplaces and coal stoves, laid with refractory mortar. Machine repairs and motor rewinds are available in the industrial area.
Bricks, blocks and brick making in Newcastle
Coal and steel country in northern KwaZulu-Natal has a long history of brickmaking, and Newcastle sits right in it. Madadeni and Osizweni grow by the street, with new rooms, family houses and boundary walls built in cement blocks and maxi bricks, while the older town has many face brick homes. The town gets cold, frosty winters and hard summer thunderstorms, so fresh cement bricks need covering in both seasons. Block yards, hardware stores and small backyard brickmakers supply most jobs, and engineering workshops in the industrial area can repair machines. Deliveries to farms around Utrecht and Dannhauser take a little longer, so plan loads ahead and check the farm road.
The requests we see from Newcastle 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 Newcastle
Most asked for in Newcastle: maxi bricks and blocks for rooms and houses, clay bricks for face work. Where the yards and suppliers are: yards and stores in town and the industrial area, small yards in the townships. A useful tip: ask whether the yard covers curing bricks on frosty nights.
Around Newcastle 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: bricks by truck from local yards; sand from rivers and pits nearby.
Service area: Newcastle and surrounds
Requests from Newcastle go to yards and suppliers that already deliver to Madadeni, Osizweni, Blaauwbosch, Utrecht, Dannhauser, Charlestown and the rest of the area. Mention a narrow street, a steep site or an estate with delivery hours, because they change the price.