Firewood Delivery in Constantia

Delivery to Constantia

The Firewood Company delivers kaggelhout, braai wood, Namibian hardwood and charcoal to Constantia, Upper Constantia, Alphen, Silverhurst and Constantia Hills for R350 per drop. Deliveries run Monday to Friday, typically within 1–2 business days, and the driver carries the bags down the drive to the wood store and stacks them there — that is in the fee.

Delivery fee: R350 on any size order, no minimum. Constantia sits in postcode 7806, a different delivery zone from the R300 suburbs on the rest of the Southern Suburbs route. Hout Bay shares the postcode and has its own page.

Delivery days: Monday to Friday, and Saturdays on request when there is enough demand. Most Constantia orders arrive within 1–2 business days; when the first cold front sits in the valley and every wood store on Brommersvlei needs filling the same week, allow 2–4. Checkout shows the current turnaround before you pay.

Cut-off: Thursday 15:00 for Friday’s Southern Suburbs run. After that, WhatsApp us; if Friday’s truck has a gap we take you, but a Constantia-sized order is better planned than squeezed in.

Carry-in and stacking: in the fee, however long the drive. If you want the bags emptied into the wood store rather than stacked as bags, unbagging is R10 a bag at checkout.

Access: most Constantia deliveries end a long way from the road. Put the gate code, the length of the drive and where the wood store is in the order notes, and the driver goes straight to it.

Winter comes over the Constantiaberg

Constantia gets its winter from the Constantiaberg. The cloud comes over the ridge late in the afternoon, sits in the valley overnight and is still hanging in the oaks along Brommersvlei at nine the next morning. The houses were built for it — thatch that holds warmth once it has it, stone that takes most of a day to warm through, and a fireplace in every room that matters. The lanes off Constantia Main Road, Spaanschemat River Road and Southern Cross Drive run a long way from the gate to the door, past the vineyards, and by June the wood store at the end of them needs filling.

That is why Constantia orders bigger than almost anywhere in Cape Town. Not two bags at a time — a stack. Kaggelhout for the open hearth in the sitting room, blackwattle for the closed-combustion unit that runs from breakfast on a wet Sunday, a bag of lump charcoal for the pizza oven under the pergola. The order is a season’s planning rather than a Tuesday errand, and the truck arrives to a wood store, a garage or a covered corner of the stoep with the gate code already in the notes.

What we’d put on the truck for a Constantia house: ten bloekom for the hearth, six blackwattle for the closed-combustion unit, six kameeldoring for the braai, two Chunky for the fire pit, a bag of restaurant-grade lump charcoal for the oven, stacked in the wood store.

What Constantia orders

Blue Gum / Bloekom Seasoned 20kg — R109 — the sitting-room hearth wood. Lights without fuss and settles into a long, even burn under a thatch roof. The bag that gets ordered ten at a time here.

Kameeldoring 18kg — R120 — dense Namibian hardwood that burns down to a bed of coals and holds it. For the closed-combustion unit that has to run all of a wet Sunday, and for the braai when the whole road comes over.

Namibian Hardwood Chunky 18kg — R135 — extra-large pieces for a fire pit, a boma or a big outdoor fire. One piece does the work of three ordinary ones, which is the point in a fireplace built for a farmhouse.

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We also deliver to Newlands & Rondebosch, Claremont & Kenilworth, Tokai & Bergvliet, Wynberg & Plumstead and Pinelands — or see everywhere we go in the Southern Suburbs.

Constantia firewood delivery — FAQ

How much is firewood delivery to Constantia?

R350 flat, whether you order two bags or twenty. Constantia is postcode 7806, a different delivery zone from Newlands, Claremont and Rondebosch at R300. The fee is the same across Upper Constantia, Alphen, Silverhurst and Constantia Hills, and it shows at checkout before you pay.

Which wood is best for a closed-combustion unit in Constantia?

Kameeldoring or Namibian Hardwood Mix — dense hardwood that settles into coals and holds heat without being fed every half-hour. Heat Logs if you want uniform pieces, low ash and no bark on the floor. Bloekom for the open hearth in the next room.

Our wood store is at the end of a long driveway. Can you get it there?

Yes — that is the usual Constantia delivery. Put the gate code and where the wood store sits in the order notes, and the driver carries the bags to it and stacks them. If the drive is gravel and steep after rain, say so and we plan the truck accordingly.

What should I burn in a Constantia pizza oven?

Sekelbos to get it hot fast, then restaurant-grade lump charcoal if you want a stable bed for a long evening of flatbreads and a whole chicken. A handful of wingerd stompies on top for the smell.

Is the wood dry enough for a thatch-house hearth?

Yes. Our bagged wood is seasoned and kept under cover at the Parow yard until it goes on the truck, so it lights properly and burns hot instead of hissing and smoking the sitting room out. That is the Dry Guarantee, and we have stood behind it for 25 years: if a bag disappoints, tell us and we make it right. Read the Dry Guarantee.

Do you deliver to Constantia Hills and Silverhurst, or only old Constantia?

All of it — Upper Constantia, Alphen, Silverhurst and Constantia Hills — at the same R350. If your address sits in postcode 7806, it is this zone, and checkout shows the fee before you pay.

How much wood does a Constantia house need for winter?

More than a two-bag habit. It depends on how many fires you run: the list above is what we would put on one truck for a house with a hearth, a closed unit and a braai. Our guide on how much firewood a Cape Town winter takes works it out for yours.

Can you deliver on a Saturday morning before guests arrive?

Only on request — Saturday runs happen when enough demand lines up, not as a fixed round. Order by Thursday 15:00 and Friday’s truck has the wood stacked before the weekend.

Order for the next Constantia run

Order by Thursday 15:00 and Friday’s Southern Suburbs truck comes down the drive — the whole stack carried to the wood store.

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