The ultimate 2025 guide to building a house in South Africa: from vacant land to dream home
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I would like to renovate a non functional 3bed house. The 3 bedroom house has 2bedrooms on the right side, one in the middle. I wanna * move the 2 bedrooms to the left side, 1 must be ensuite *make a double garage on the right side where the bedrooms were * and a backroom or 2 the back if there's enough space There is no existing plan
I have identified a residential land in Kuils River and I have a plan of building 10 70m² properties on the land. These properties will have to be modern affordable homes, a 2 bedroom house that will have garage/parking space and then some room where one can put a granny flat if they choose. I need a figure of how much would material and labour cost for such project, from start to finish.
We would like to build a 4 bedroomed, double storey house, X2 Garages, x2 Bathrooms, X1 large living space. House to be build in rural area, in Sterkspruit, +/- kms from Bloemfontein. However, there's no building plans except just a piece of land to build on. All I need is an idea of how much such a property could cost, building plans, landscaping and construction. Would also appreciate your advice and guidance.
Normal Three bedroom...two bathrooms ...main bathroom ensuing... open plan kitchen leading to dinning room and lounge...tiled roof..high ceiling...verandah...sliding doors from lounge leading to verandah with braai area...one kitchen door at the back...all rooms must be enamel frame window...Normal building blocks.
I need to have a Nutech house constructed with plans approximate measurements are for an L-Shaped building. Measurements to be 8m x 6,5m width 3,5m on both sides
Main house: 4 bedroom, main bedroom has walk in closet,1 office, 2 bathrooms (1 is MES), 1 guest loo. Open plan lounge, dining room into big kitchen, with separate scullery which leads into double garage, slightly longer than usual garage. Plus bar. Around sm for the house, plus 40odd sm for the garage. Cottage, 2 bedroom, 2 bathrooms, open plan lounge dining room and kitchen. Looking for Nutec or timber or other reasonably priced building material. Also want, 10mx4m swimming pool. Still looking for land, so need pricing at this stage. Stand size we are looking at will be around sm. Also need boundary wall, site clearing, water and electricity connection plus back up water tanks and generator connection. Fittings, middle of the range, not the cheapest or most expensive. Have come up with some rough plans, so can send them.
Build 6 x 18 m double brick wall (concrete bricks ) 1.2 m high with foundation fill up with soil on site compact and thrvaaldamough mm concrete top to be used as deck service supply all material to site. vaaldam. Can you give qoute indication new site no building constrictors resonde farm land decided into 2.5 ha plots
Project in early stages of planning. NPO being registered still. Existing structure in Bokkie park will be extended out towards the dam. same dimesions as existing structure. 21m long by 6m wide. We will enclose existing structure and build kitchen and bar. Extension will be enclosed carport basically with big sliding door openings facing dam. This will be for seating. On the far end next to bathroom a office and additional bathroom will be constructed. All bricks for walls and IBR sheeting for roof. Existing roof does need some patching.
In a 3.2 ha pice of land situated on a m bank of the vaal marina. 3 modern design houses each with a build size of m^2 to m^2 all having pools and semi ultra modern finishes. By the river bank a modern clubhouse with a build of m^2 with a deck going into the dam. The materiel to be used are concrete and steel mostly with huge glasses and very minimal usage of bricks.