Kaggelhout, braai wood, Namibian hardwood and restaurant-grade charcoal, delivered across the Southern Suburbs for R300, carried in and stacked.
Old houses built around a hearth, a mountain that takes the afternoon sun early, and the wettest winter in the city. This is where the kaggelhout goes.
See prices · Delivery R300 WhatsApp an order — 060 978 8945
★ 4.9 on Google from 700+ reviews — Cape Town’s most-reviewed firewood company · Since 2001 · Delivered Mon–Fri, typically 1–2 business days · Saturdays on request
Call 021 492 7317 · WhatsApp 060 978 8945 · Factory shop: 35 Tredoux Street, Parow
Delivery to the Southern Suburbs
The Firewood Company delivers kaggelhout, braai wood, Namibian hardwood and charcoal to Newlands, Rondebosch, Claremont, Kenilworth, Wynberg and Plumstead for R300 per drop, and to Constantia, Tokai and Bergvliet for R350. Deliveries run Monday to Friday, typically within 1–2 business days. Offloading and stacking the bags included.
Delivery fee: R300 flat across Newlands, Rondebosch, Rosebank, Mowbray, Claremont, Kenilworth, Bishopscourt, Harfield, Observatory, Wynberg, Plumstead, Diep River and Southfield. Constantia, Tokai, Bergvliet, Kirstenhof, Lakeside and Meadowridge are R350 (a different zone); Pinelands is R250.
Delivery days: Monday to Friday, with Saturday deliveries on request when there is enough demand. Typical turnaround is 1–2 business days; in peak winter weeks it can stretch to 2–4. The turnaround for your order is shown at checkout before you pay, and we update it as demand changes.
Cut-off: order by Thursday 15:00 to be on the Friday run. Miss it and there is occasionally room on a Friday morning truck — ask, don’t count on it.
Offloading and stacking the bags: included. Unbagging is R10 a bag, added at checkout. Say where in the order notes — wood store, garage, under the stoep — and that is where it goes.
Minimum order: none — order what you need.
Access: the M3 gets the truck in; the streets off it are old and the driveways long. A Bishopscourt gate, a Harfield one-way, a side passage in Rondebosch — one line in the order notes covers all of it.
Where we deliver in the Southern Suburbs
Newlands (R300) · Rondebosch (R300) · Rosebank (R300) · Mowbray (R300) · Claremont (R300) · Kenilworth (R300) · Bishopscourt (R300) · Harfield Village (R300) · Observatory (R300) · Wynberg (R300) · Plumstead (R300) · Diep River (R300) · Southfield (R300) · Tokai (R350) · Bergvliet (R350) · Kirstenhof (R350) · Lakeside (R350) · Meadowridge (R350) · Constantia (R350) · Pinelands (R250)
We also deliver to Constantia, Newlands & Rondebosch, Mowbray, Rosebank & Observatory, Claremont & Kenilworth, Tokai & Bergvliet, Wynberg & Plumstead and Pinelands — or see everywhere we go in the Southern Suburbs.
What the Southern Suburbs orders
This is fireplace country, and the geography explains why.
Table Mountain stands to the west of Newlands, Rondebosch and Claremont, so the eastern slopes lose the sun early on a winter afternoon — a Newlands garden can be in shadow by three while the far side of the peninsula still has an hour of light. Newlands is also the wettest suburb in Cape Town, and the Liesbeek runs cold through the middle of it. The houses were built for exactly this: Victorian and Edwardian, high ceilings, a chimney on the gable and a working hearth in the front room, lit most evenings from the first cold front to the last. Nobody here installed a fireplace as a feature. They bought a house that came with one.
Further south the valley opens out. Constantia and Tokai sit under the Constantiaberg, where the mist settles overnight and the cold pools on the flat ground below, and this is where the big winter orders come from — thatch and stone, closed-combustion units, and a wood store built for a season rather than a week. Bishopscourt’s long driveways run to houses with hearths to match.
Then a Saturday comes round with cricket at Newlands and the rugby on, the oaks are dripping, and the braai under the stoep gets lit as well. So we’d send a Southern Suburbs house bloekom for the hearth, on repeat, blackwattle for the closed-combustion unit, and kameeldoring for the weekend braai.
Blue Gum / Bloekom Seasoned 20kg — R109 — the nightly fireplace wood. Lights without fuss and settles into a long, even burn, which is what a century-old hearth wants.
Namibian Hardwood Mix 15kg — R105 — a hand-packed mix of Namibian hardwoods for the braai and the fire pit — dense, slow-burning, and it coals down beautifully.
Kameeldoring 18kg — R120 — dense Namibian hardwood that settles into hot coals and stays there. The braai wood for the Saturday when everyone comes round after the game.
Short Pieces – Blue Gum 20kg — R105 — cut short for the small Victorian grates in Harfield and Mowbray and the closed-combustion units in Rondebosch flats. If a full-length log fights your fireplace, this is the fix.
What the Southern Suburbs says about us
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Restaurants, guest houses and function venues
We supply restaurants, guest houses, self-catering lets and function venues across the Southern Suburbs on standing orders — firewood, kaggelhout, briquettes and charcoal in quantity, delivered on your route’s run days and stacked where your staff can reach it. Trade pricing on request. See our trade page.
Need LP gas too? Order it from our sister company Help U Gas — some of the best LP gas prices in Cape Town.
25 years of the same chimneys
We started in 2001 in Parow, with a bakkie. The Southern Suburbs was fireplace country long before that — a Newlands or Rondebosch chimney is often a century old, and it wants what it has always wanted: seasoned wood that lights first time and burns clean.
That is the whole job on this route. The houses have been restored, extended and sold on; the hearths have stayed where they were. What has changed is on our side — the drying, the trucks, and a fee you know before you order rather than after.
Southern Suburbs firewood delivery — FAQ
How much is firewood delivery to the Southern Suburbs?
R300 flat across the core of the route — Newlands, Rondebosch, Rosebank, Mowbray, Claremont, Kenilworth, Bishopscourt, Harfield Village, Observatory, Wynberg, Plumstead, Diep River and Southfield. Constantia, Tokai, Bergvliet, Kirstenhof, Lakeside and Meadowridge fall in a different zone at R350; Pinelands is R250. You’ll see your fee at checkout before you pay.
When do you deliver to the Southern Suburbs?
Monday to Friday, typically within 1–2 business days. Order by Thursday 15:00 and you’re on the Friday run. In peak winter weeks allow 2–4 business days — the first cold front sends the whole route to the fireplace at once — and checkout shows your turnaround before you pay.
Which wood is best for an old Southern Suburbs fireplace?
Blue Gum / Bloekom for an open hearth — it lights easily and burns long and even. Short Pieces if the grate is small. Bloekom or blackwattle for a closed-combustion unit — steady heat through the evening; Heat Logs if you want fewer top-ups.
Can you carry the wood through to the back?
Yes — anywhere within 50 m of where the truck offloads: side gate, up the steps, the wood store behind the garage. Tell us in the order notes where the bags go and whether there is a gate to open. Further than 50 m, or a long climb, arrange it with us beforehand — it may carry a small surcharge for the extra time.
Is your wood actually dry?
Yes, and we stake 25 years on it. Our bagged wood is seasoned and stored under cover, so it lights properly and burns hot instead of hissing at you. If a bag ever disappoints, tell us and we’ll make it right — that is the Dry Guarantee. Read the Dry Guarantee.
Do you stack the wood?
Yes — the delivery fee includes carrying the bags in and stacking them neatly, within 50 m of where the truck offloads. Further than that, let us know when you order so we can plan it; it may carry a small surcharge for the extra time. If you’d like them emptied onto your pile as well, add Unbagging at R10 a bag.
Do you supply restaurants and guest houses in the Southern Suburbs?
Yes. Namibian hardwood and firewood — bloekom and blackwattle — in quantity, charcoal and briquettes for the kitchens that use them, and LP gas through our sister company Help U Gas, all on a standing order that runs with your route’s run days. WhatsApp us for trade pricing.
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