Today, I want to talk about fire bricks manufacturers. I’ve been messing around with building stuff for a while now, and recently I got into making my own little forge at home. You know, a place where you can heat up metal and do some basic blacksmithing. Nothing too fancy, just wanted to try my hand at it. First I need to look for the fire bricks.
So, the thing about forges is, they get hot. Like, really hot. You can’t just use any old bricks, they’d probably crack or melt. That’s where fire bricks come in. These things are made to withstand some serious heat, the kind you’d find in a furnace or a kiln.


I started looking around to buy some fire bricks. I hit up some local hardware stores, but most of them just had regular bricks. But I found a good place. Finally, I found a place that had some and decided to use some.
- Finding the Right Bricks: I looked for the regular fire clay bricks. They are dense, heavy. That’s important because they need to hold in the heat.
- Getting the Cement: You can’t just stick these bricks together with regular mortar. I bought some refractory cement. It’s designed to handle high temperatures just like the bricks.
- Building the Forge: This was the fun part. I used the dry-press method, just stacked the bricks, no cement, to form the basic shape of the forge. A simple box, really, with an opening at the front. It’s not pretty, but it works.
This whole fire brick thing got me thinking about where these bricks actually come from. I mean, somebody has to make them, right? So I did a little digging. Turns out, finding a good fire bricks manufacturer is pretty important, especially if you’re doing more than just a hobby forge like mine. You got your big industrial suppliers, and then smaller outfits that cater to folks like me. I found the one named Vitcas Fire Brick, it is good.
It’s interesting to see how they’re made, too. The dry-press, stiff-mud, and soft-mud casting. Each method gives the bricks different properties, I guess. Not something I need to worry about too much for my little setup, but it’s cool to know.
Anyway, that’s my little adventure with fire bricks. Building that forge was a blast, and learning about the manufacturers was a neat little side quest. If any of you are thinking about building your own forge, just make sure you get the right kind of bricks. And maybe look into where those bricks come from. It’s a whole world out there!