Firewood Delivery in the Southern Suburbs: Wynberg, Claremont, Constantia & Tokai

The Southern Suburbs get the cold, wet end of a Cape winter and the long, still evenings of a Cape summer, which means the fire gets lit for two quite different reasons — and both of them go better with wood that is actually dry.

Under the mountain, damp is the enemy. Wood stored in a shed behind the house in Bergvliet or Tokai will pick up moisture through winter, and a bag that felt fine in March will fight you in July.

Where we deliver

Limpopo Hardwood delivers to Wynberg, Claremont, Kenilworth, Bergvliet, Constantia, Tokai, Diep River, Lakeside, Retreat, Steenberg and Kirstenhof, straight from our depot to your door.
Delivery is priced by area (see every area and fee) and worked out at checkout, so there are no surprises when the bakkie arrives.

Fireplace wood and braai wood are not the same job

A lot of Southern Suburbs homes have both a braai and an indoor fireplace, and the wood that suits one is not always ideal for the other:

• For the braai, you want wood that burns down to a good coal bed in a reasonable time. Sekelbos and Soetdoring are the easy picks.
• For a fireplace, you want long, steady heat and low smoke. Swarthaak and Rooibos are dense enough to keep a room warm for an evening without constant refuelling.
• For a potjie, go dense and go early. You want coals that are still working three hours later.

Winter tip: bring the next day’s wood inside the night before. Even dry wood braais better at room temperature than straight off a cold, damp stoep.

Which wood should you actually order?

Short version: they all burn well, they just burn differently.

• Sekelbos — the all-rounder. Lights without a fight, burns hot,
  gives you a proper coal bed. If you are not sure what to order, order this.
• Rooibos — dense and long-burning, with a subtle sweetness in the
  smoke. Good for a slow afternoon where the fire has to last.
• Soetdoring — sweet thorn. Hot, clean and steady, and it makes
  coals that hold their heat while you argue about whether the meat is ready.
• Swarthaak — the heavyweight. Hardest to light, longest to burn.
  Worth it for potjie and for anything that needs hours rather than minutes.
• Bluegum and Redgum — the
  familiar Cape braai woods. Reliable heat, easy to work with, good value in bigger bags.

Getting it going is easier with kindling (8 kg for R45) and a box of
firelighters. If you would rather skip wood altogether for a quick weeknight braai,
there is Namibian charcoal at R50 for 5 kg.

Why dry wood matters more than the label on the bag

Wet wood is the single most common reason a braai goes badly. Water in the wood has to boil off before the
wood can burn, so you get hissing, thick smoke, a fire that keeps dying, and a braai master who keeps
insisting it is “nearly ready”. It also coats your grid and your food in the sour, sooty smoke nobody wants.

Our wood is dried before it goes out, which is why it lights faster, burns cleaner and gives you more heat
per kilogram. That last part matters for your wallet too: a bag of properly dried hardwood does more work than
a heavier bag of damp wood at the same price.

Bag sizes and what they cost

Everything below is sold by weight, not by a vague “bag” that shrinks when nobody is looking.

Going bigger? Bulk pieces run from R1 699 for 500 pieces (around 300 kg) up to
R4 620 for 1 000 pieces of Swarthaak (around 840 kg). The full range is on the
bulk pieces page.

How ordering works

1. Pick your wood and bag size in the shop.
2. Check out online — card payments are handled by Yoco.
3. Choose delivery to your address, or collection at our warehouse if you are passing by.

Delivery is available to 99 Cape Town and Western Cape areas and is priced by area, so the fee is
worked out at checkout rather than guessed at. Not sure whether we reach you? Send us a
message or call 084 050 4286 and we will tell you straight.

If something arrives damaged or wrong, report it within 48 hours and we will sort it out — the details are
in our FAQs.

Ready to stock up?

Browse the full firewood range, grab charcoal and
firelighters while you are there, and get it delivered before the weekend rather
than after it.