Phoning around Northern Cape 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 towns and cities across Northern Cape.
Fire Bricks in Northern Cape
Looking for fire bricks in Northern Cape? 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 Northern Cape, Northern Cape 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.
Supplies & services in Northern Cape: local notes
Bricklayers in Kimberley, Upington and Kathu quote per square metre or per 1,000 bricks laid, and on farms the team is often booked for a full job with lodging. Sand along the Orange and Vaal rivers near Upington and Douglas is used for bricks and plaster. Fire bricks are needed for farm boilers and mine kilns, and repairs to machines in remote towns usually mean posting the parts.
Bricks, blocks and brick making in Northern Cape
Distance is part of the price of every brick in the Northern Cape. Kimberley and Upington have the bigger yards, but a farmhouse near Carnarvon or a school extension in Pofadder may be hundreds of kilometres from the nearest pallet, so many towns make their own cement bricks locally with a small machine and Orange River or pit sand. Mining towns such as Kathu, Postmasburg and Kuruman add rented housing and new extensions, and the Karoo towns of De Aar and Colesberg build farm sheds, dams and kraals. Kimberley's older suburbs still have red face brick to match. Fierce sun and dry wind crack fresh bricks, and the Karoo gets hard winter frost.
The requests we see from Northern Cape usually come from:
- Farms and smallholdings: fire bricks for a farm kitchen oven, a boiler or a braai at the lapa
- Homeowners: fire bricks for a garden pizza oven, a built-in braai or a fireplace
- New brick-making businesses: a small kiln or oven builder buying fire bricks and refractory mortar
Local tips for Northern Cape
Most asked for in Northern Cape: locally made cement bricks, farm shed blocks, housing in the mining towns. Where the yards and suppliers are: yards in Kimberley, Upington and Kathu; small local yards in most towns. A useful tip: ask for a full load price delivered to the farm, not a per pallet price at the yard.
Requests range widely: full bricks and thin 25 mm splits. Here, farms and smallholdings lead the requests, typically for fire bricks for a farm kitchen oven, a boiler or a braai at the lapa. One local point to raise: long hauls on the N8, N10 and N14; many towns make bricks with local sand.
Service area: Northern Cape and surrounds
Suppliers and contractors on our network work throughout Northern Cape, including Kimberley, Upington, Kathu, Kuruman, Springbok, De Aar, Postmasburg. For farms and smaller towns, ask whether delivery is in the price and how far the truck travels.