The ultimate 2025 guide to building a house in South Africa: from vacant land to dream home
Building a house in South Africa? Our ultimate 2025 guide covers costs, land, plans & builders. Follow our step-by-step process to build your dream home.
1. Remove bath and do a walk in shower. 2. Replace basin with a floating cupboard and basin. 3. Replace toilet 4. Add a wall cupboard with mirror aligning to size of floating basin cupboard. 5. Plan to add a broom cupboard. 6. Add a bigger extractor ceiling fan. 7. Wall and Floor tiling Cirrent view of bathroom attached.
A continuation of a build 3 bedroom house and an addition of a garage with a back room. A boundary wall would be great as well. House currently has a loung, kitchen , 1x bedroom and a seperate toilet and bathroom. There are also 2x flats with a toilet on car end of yard. The house has an existing plans ( 3 bedroom & 2 flatlets) approved by the Buffalo City Municipality ( my gran made sure). I am currently in the process of trying to get the copies as we don’t have them to share. Would be great to start this process with estimated costs.
Looking to build a 3meter high wall in Munster, South of KZN close to Port Edward. The yard is about sqm, but looking to go with a phased approach where we start with fencing or walling the back of the yard which is roughly about 4 to sqm (from the back to the sides of the house) or 12meters (only the back of the yard) to start. I need qoutes on a Palisades wall, PVC fencing or Bonnox Mesh Fencing with materials and labor included.
I have a 2 or 3-phase project with the primary objective focussed on the bathroom: Bathroom: - take out the bathtub - do waterproofing in preparation for, and install a walk-in shower - retile bathroom (floor, shower, walls - not certain of height of wall tiling yet) Living/kitchen area: - retile as initial installation was done poorly - most tiles are loose. Stretch/optional goal: - integrate battery inverter to unit's power supply The supplied/attached plan is what I came up with after several iterations of different ideas. It's not % final and lacks detail such as the shower floor slope, but should be sufficient to get a ballpark quotation (I think). The entire flat is 49m², the bathroom is about 4.3m², the living room/kitchen area is 16.5m².
Hello. I am based in Elandskop, Pietermaritzburg. Looking for a new building on a space with the following dimensions: the back is 8m, the two sides are 12m and 10m, respectively, and the front side is 6m. This is roughly 80-88 sqm. I am looking for a double storey with two bedrooms, a common area with a kichenette , two small bathrooms. See examples attached
3 bedrooms with common shower and separate toilet, plus 1 master bedroom with bath, laundry room, home lounge, dining and kitchen with dirty area, guest lounge and access toilet, study room, garage, porch, hip roof optimised material budget including plumbing and electrification and house finishes like ceiling and flooring.
Remodeling and renovating 4 small single rooms into 2 bachelor units and 1 small single room. Bachelor rooms to have a basic bathroom and kitchenette. This will require some plumbing work and electricals. For a student accommodation . I need a good contractor. One who really understands buildings and has good references. Someone who is neat, detailed, communicative and has good time management.
Remodeling and renovating 4 small single rooms into 2 bachelor units and 1 small single room. Bachelor rooms to have a basic bathroom and kitchenette. This will require some plumbing work and electricals. For a student accommodation . I need a good contractor. One who really understands buildings and has good references. Someone who is neat, detailed, communicative and has good time management.
I want to extend one bedroom by moving a wall between the bedroom and lounge by approximately 1m. Separately the bathroom I want to modernize by removing the bath and installing a shower. Additionally, removing the passage storage space and moving the bathroom door to the space that would be added as seen in the image attached.
A granny flat, complete with kitchen, bathroom, one bedroom and one extra room. Aluminium window frames, tiled/laminate flooring, electrical work, plumbing. I am looking at quotes and still deciding what would be feasible prior to undertaking work on the main house. The photo I’ve added is the section behind the house, there is already an outbuilding but is basic and could be the base already