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Fire Bricks in Pretoria
Looking for fire bricks in Pretoria? 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 Pretoria, Gauteng can quote the bricks and the refractory mortar together.
Want to know more first? Our fire bricks guide covers the types, the sizes and what affects the price.
What to know locally in Pretoria
Bricklayers from Mamelodi and Atteridgeville work right across the city and quote per m² or per 1,000 bricks laid. Sand comes by tipper from pits to the north and west, so ask for plaster and building sand separately. Paving contractors are busy in Pretoria East estates and on township driveways. Fire bricks for braai and pizza ovens are asked for in Lynnwood and Garsfontein, and repairers in Pretoria West fix motors and moulds.
Pretoria: the building, the weather and the yards
From Mamelodi in the east to Atteridgeville in the west and Soshanguve in the north, Pretoria's townships keep a large share of the city's bricklayers busy with extensions, double storeys and RDP houses being enlarged. The eastern side tells a different story: estates and complexes around Silver Lakes, Mooikloof and Pretoria East use face brick and plastered maxi brick for security villages and townhouses. Block yards cluster in Rosslyn, Pretoria West and Silverton, while many township stands run a small machine of their own. Winters are cold and dry with frost in the low parts of the city, and summer brings heavy afternoon storms, so bricks curing in the open need plastic sheeting and a slab with good fall.
Typical fire bricks requests in the area 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
- Housing developers and complexes: fireplaces and communal braai areas lined with fire bricks across an estate
Local tips for Pretoria
Yards and suppliers serving Pretoria mostly work from here: block yards in Rosslyn, Pretoria West and Silverton; small yards in the townships. The requests that come up most: maxi bricks and blocks for township extensions, face brick for eastern estates. When you ask for quotes, ask whether the quote includes offloading, since many township streets are narrow.
Requests range widely: full bricks and thin 25 mm splits. Here, homeowners lead the requests, typically for fire bricks for a garden pizza oven, a built-in braai or a fireplace. One local point to raise: yards on the edges of the city; sand by tipper from pits north and west of Pretoria.
Service area: Pretoria and surrounds
Our network covers Pretoria together with Centurion, Hatfield, Waterkloof, Montana, Silver Lakes, Mooikloof, Akasia. A street address helps a supplier work out the delivery before quoting.