Phoning around Roodepoort 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 Roodepoort and nearby areas of Gauteng.
Fire Bricks in Roodepoort
Looking for fire bricks in Roodepoort? 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 Roodepoort, Gauteng 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 Roodepoort: local notes
Bricklayers from Dobsonville and Florida work across the west, quoting per m² or per 1,000 bricks laid. Paving contractors lay complex roads and driveways in Little Falls and Weltevredenpark. Sand comes by tipper from pits west of the city, and some yards offer a mixed load of bricks and sand. Machine repairers in Laser Park and Honeydew rebuild moulds and replace vibrator motors.
Bricks, blocks and brick making in Roodepoort
West of Johannesburg, Roodepoort grew up along the gold reef, and its older suburbs like Florida, Discovery and Horison sit close to old mine land along the Main Reef Road. Newer growth is north west, where estates and complexes in Ruimsig, Wilgeheuwel, Little Falls and Honeydew use face brick and plastered maxi brick in large volumes. Dobsonville and Braamfischerville, on the Soweto side, build rooms and boundary walls in cement bricks from small yards nearby. Industrial stands in Roodepoort West, Laser Park and Honeydew hold block yards and hardware stores. Frost settles in the valleys around the Kloofendal ridges in winter, and spring winds dry fresh cement bricks quickly, so keep them damp.
Typical fire bricks requests in the area come from:
- Homeowners: fire bricks for a garden pizza oven, a built-in braai or a fireplace
- Housing developers and complexes: fireplaces and communal braai areas lined with fire bricks across an estate
- Builders and bricklaying contractors: fire brick linings for fireplaces and braai areas in new houses
Local tips for Roodepoort
Common here: face brick for estates and complexes, cement bricks in Dobsonville and Florida. Ask each supplier or contractor about this: ask whether the estate needs a set brick colour before you sign the quote. Where they work from: yards in Laser Park, Honeydew and along Main Reef Road in Roodepoort West.
Around Roodepoort 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 on Main Reef Road and in Honeydew; sand by tipper from pits to the west.
Service area: Roodepoort and surrounds
Our network covers Roodepoort together with Florida, Weltevredenpark, Ruimsig, Little Falls, Honeydew, Wilgeheuwel, Constantia Kloof. A street address helps a supplier work out the delivery before quoting.