Three taps for your fireplace, three for your braai, and the whole season goes into the cart in one go — wood, kindling and firelighters, in the quantities we would load for you.
The fireplace numbers are the ones we plan our own deliveries on: bags per fire by fireplace size, fifteen fires a month, and half again for an open hearth.
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★ 4.9 from 700+ Google reviews · Cape Town since 2001 · bags carried in and stacked, still bagged
Wood use varies with the quality and efficiency of your fireplace or braai, the weather and how you cook. Namibian hardwood is denser and very dry, so a bag burns longer than a bag of bloekom. Prices are today's shop prices; the delivery fee for your route is added at checkout.
How the numbers work
Fireplace. We start from bags per fire for your unit’s size and how long the fire burns, then adjust for the wood you pick: denser wood, fewer bags. For a closed-combustion unit we recommend bloekom or blackwattle. Smaller units and shorter fires use less, larger and longer use more, and an open fireplace uses about half again because most of its heat goes up the chimney. We count fifteen fires a month, not thirty, because a Cape winter has warm days between the fronts. One bag of kindling and one box of firelighters for every five bags of wood. The full table is here.
Braai. One bag of kameeldoring for a family braai; two when the meat goes on in rounds for a big crowd; a bag more if you want a fire to sit around afterwards, and a bag of potjie kindling if there is a pot going. Kettles get a 5kg bag of Namib Charcoal for a family braai and a 10kg bag of lump for a crowd; a kamado gets lump. Low and slow starts on briquettes with lump for the sear. Which bag for which braai has the reasoning.
Not sure which fireplace you have?
Glass door and an air control lever: closed-combustion. An open grate you can toss a log into: open fireplace. The kilowatt rating is on a plate at the back of a closed unit or in its manual — one room is small, an open-plan lounge is medium, a double-volume space is large. What to burn in each.
