Fireplace, Braai & Chimney Services for the Garden Route
Professional fireplace installation and repair solutions designed to bring warmth, comfort, and style to your home. From free standing and built-in units to modern wall-mounted fireplaces, we deliver safe, efficient, and high-quality workmanship you can trust. 🔥
We Deliver & Install Across the Garden Route
Fire Flame's installers work across Bellville, Tyger Valley and the wider Tygerberg area every week — new fireplace installations, replacements in established family homes, and repairs on units other companies gave up on. Safe, SANS-compliant workmanship at honest prices. 🔥
Contact us today for a free installation or repair quote for your Bellville home.
Fireplace delivery & installation for the Garden Route
Bellville's established neighbourhoods are full of older homes with tired open hearths — our most common Bellville job is converting these to closed-combustion inserts that triple the heat from the same opening. We also install freestanding and wall-mounted units in newer townhouse developments, complete with flue work and a safety inspection. See our full fireplace installation service.
Freestanding Fireplaces Delivered to Your Door
- Closed-Combustion Stoves from R7,490
- Insured Courier to Every Garden Route Town
- Crated & Protected for Transport
- Full Installation Manual with Every Unit
- Matching Flue Kits Supplied
- Phone Support for Your Installer
Insert / Built-In Fireplaces for Renovations
- Cassette & Insert Units in Stock
- Spec Sheets for Your Builder
- Delivery to Site or Builder’s Yard
- Flue & Venting Components Supplied
- Installation Visits by Arrangement
- Phone & WhatsApp Install Support
Gas & Wall-Mounted Fireplaces for Holiday Homes
- Instant Heat for Weekend Arrivals
- Wall-Mounted & Freestanding Gas Units
- No Wood Storage Needed
- Guidance on Certified Local Gas Installers
- CoC Requirements Explained Upfront
- Delivery Direct to George or Knysna
Braai delivery & installation for the Garden Route
From Boston to Oakdale, the built-in braai remains the heart of the Bellville backyard. We build and install indoor braai rooms and outdoor built-in braais with correct flue sizing, plus certified gas braai installations. More on our braai installation service.
Built-In Braais for Garden Route Homes
- Northern Flame & Home Fires Units
- 700–1200mm Built-In Sizes in Stock
- Delivered Crated to Your Site
- Builder Spec Sheets Provided
- Installation Trips by Arrangement
- Flue Kits & Cowls Supplied
Freestanding & Gas Braais Delivered
- Freestanding Braais Ready to Use
- Gas Braais for Patios & Stoeps
- No Building Work Required
- Insured Courier to Every Town
- Assembly Guides Included
- Phone Support After Delivery
Pizza Ovens & Outdoor Cooking Equipment
- Earthfire Ceramic Pizza Ovens
- Firepits for Boma Evenings
- Delivered to Holiday Homes
- Care & Curing Instructions Included
- Outdoor Kitchen Planning Advice
- Chimney & Venting Components
Chimney supplies & straight answers
Many Bellville chimneys have been burning for decades without a proper service. We sweep, inspect and repair chimneys across the Tygerberg — soot and creosote removal, bird-nest clearing and safety checks before winter. See our chimney sweeping service.
We proudly serve Bellville, Boston, Oakdale, Tyger Valley, Welgemoed, Loevenstein, Plattekloof and Parow.
Wood, Gas & Pellet Fireplaces for Garden Route Homes
Wood Fireplaces
George gets some of the coldest, wettest winters in the country — and unlike most of South Africa, the Garden Route has a real wood culture to match. From Knysna’s forest edges to smallholdings outside Sedgefield, good firewood is easy to come by, which makes a closed-combustion wood stove the obvious choice: the same load of wood produces roughly three times the heat of an open hearth, with a fraction of the smoke. We stock more than 400 freestanding closed-combustion fireplaces from R7,490, from compact 5kW units for lock-up-and-go cottages to 14kW stoves that will heat a double-volume farmhouse living room outside Oudtshoorn.
Gas Fireplaces
For holiday homes in Plettenberg Bay or Wilderness that stand empty for weeks at a time, gas fireplaces make more sense: instant heat the moment you arrive on a Friday night, no wood to store, nothing to clean before you leave on Sunday. We deliver the unit and full specifications to your door; a certified local gas installer connects it and issues the Certificate of Compliance that every fixed gas appliance legally requires. We’re happy to talk your installer through the spec before they quote.
Pellet & Alternative Fireplaces
Pellet stoves suit larger permanent homes in George and Mossel Bay where automated, thermostat-controlled heating matters more than the ritual of building a fire. Bio-ethanol units work for sectional-title apartments along the coast where a flue simply isn’t possible. Tell us what the room looks like and we’ll tell you honestly which fuel makes sense — and which doesn’t.
Fireplace & Braai Delivery to George, Mossel Bay, Knysna & Beyond
We’re Cape Town-based — we won’t pretend to have a branch on every main road along the N2. What we do have is a 599-strong fireplace range, sharp online pricing, insured couriers who run the Garden Route weekly, and installation trips we schedule when a few projects line up in the same area.
George
Our busiest Garden Route destination. George’s winters justify a proper heater, and most fireplaces we send here are 8–12kW closed-combustion stoves for family homes in Heatherlands, Blanco and George South. Delivery takes 3–5 working days, and George is the anchor town for most of our scheduled installation trips.
Mossel Bay
Coastal salt air is hard on mild steel, so for Mossel Bay and Hartenbos we usually steer buyers toward units with high-grade finishes, and stainless flue components as standard. Built-in braais for patios overlooking the Point are a close second to fireplaces here.
Knysna, Sedgefield & Wilderness
Timber homes around the Knysna lagoon and in Wilderness need careful clearances and heat shielding — every quote we send here includes the exact SANS clearance requirements for your installer, and we talk builders through flue penetrations in timber roofs regularly.
Plettenberg Bay
Mostly holiday homes: gas fireplaces for instant weekend heat, and built-in braais for entertaining areas. We coordinate delivery with caretakers and estate security so you don’t have to be there to receive it.
Oudtshoorn
The Klein Karoo’s freezing winter nights make Oudtshoorn our inland exception — large-format wood stoves dominate orders here, and delivery runs over the Outeniqua Pass with the same courier network.
Why buy from a Cape Town shop?
Because range and price beat proximity. A local hearth shop in George might carry a dozen models on its floor; our online shop lists the full catalogues of Northern Flame, Hydrofire, Dovre, Charnwood, Morsø and a dozen other brands at Cape Town pricing. You choose from the whole market, we handle the crating and courier risk, and your money goes into a better fireplace instead of a middleman’s margin. And because we actually install these units every day of the week in Cape Town, the advice you get on sizing, flue routes and clearances comes from installers — not from a call centre reading a brochure.
Our Garden Route Install-Trip Process
- Consultation. WhatsApp us photos of the room, the outside roofline and your town — we confirm what suits the space and what delivery costs, usually same-day.
- Quote. One written quote covering the unit, flue kit, crating, insured courier delivery and — if you want us to fit it — the installation trip. No hidden extras added later.
- Delivery. Your fireplace or braai is crated in Cape Town and couriered fully insured, typically arriving in 3–5 working days anywhere from Mossel Bay to Plettenberg Bay.
- Installation by arrangement. We schedule Garden Route installation trips when projects group together, so you share the travel cost rather than carry it alone. Every install is done to SANS clearance and flue requirements. Prefer your own builder? We supply the manual and support them by phone at no charge.
- Handover & support. Test fire, operating walkthrough and curing instructions — and our workshop remains a phone call away long after we’ve driven home.
The honest fine print: we can’t promise a fixed installation date the way we can in Cape Town, because trips depend on grouping projects. If your timeline is tight — a rental changeover, a winter deadline — tell us upfront and we’ll say plainly whether a scheduled trip or a supported local installer is the faster route. Either way the fireplace itself ships within days, so the unit is never the bottleneck.
Fireplace & Braai Prices for the Garden Route (2026)
| Freestanding closed-combustion fireplace (unit only) | R7,490 – R45,000 |
| Insert / built-in fireplace (unit only) | R12,000 – R60,000 |
| Built-in braai unit (unit only) | R6,000 – R25,000 |
| Crated, insured courier delivery to the Garden Route | R950 – R2,500 |
| Installation during a scheduled Garden Route trip | from R6,500, quoted per project |
Unit prices are our normal online-shop prices — you pay the same in Knysna as a customer in Cape Town does, plus courier. Installation pricing depends on how many projects share a trip; our Cape Town labour rates on the fireplace installation Cape Town page are the honest baseline before travel is added.
Get a Free Quote for Fireplace Delivery to the Garden Route
Tell us your town, send a photo of the room and the outside roofline, and say whether you want delivery only or delivery plus installation. We’ll confirm the flue route, the courier cost and the next likely install-trip window — usually the same day, with no call-out fee and no pressure.