Need granny flats in Pretoria? PrefabricatedHomes.co.za puts backyard landlords and families and everyone else in Pretoria in touch with granny flat builders and prefab suppliers working in Pretoria and nearby parts of Gauteng. One request, free, no obligation.
Granny Flats in Pretoria
Planning a granny flat in Pretoria? Say how big it must be, how many bedrooms and bathrooms, where it will stand on the plot, and whether you already have approved plans and a slab. Builders and suppliers who work in Pretoria and across Gauteng will quote the unit, the slab and delivery.
The main granny flats page explains the options, the rules and the costs in more detail.
Pretoria notes on rooms, cabins & buildings
Prefab classrooms are common in Pretoria, with schools in Mamelodi, Olievenhoutbosch and Soshanguve adding rooms when enrolment grows, and the Department and governing bodies both ask for quotes. Granny flats go up in Montana, Sinoville and Wonderboom South for parents and students near the universities in Hatfield. Site offices and prefab buildings serve the industrial parks in Rosslyn and along the N4, often on skids moved by crane truck.
Sizes run from small studios to 2 bedroom units. Before you agree to anything: approved plans needed: it is a dwelling.
Building prefab in Pretoria
Pretoria stretches a long way, and the prefab work changes from one end to the other. Mamelodi, Soshanguve, Atteridgeville and Hammanskraal want backyard rooms and nutec houses that can be let out, often added one room at a time. The eastern suburbs, from Faerie Glen to Moreleta Park, ask for wendy houses, garden offices and lapas on sloping stands that step down the ridges, while smallholdings in Kameeldrift and Roodeplaat put up timber cottages and staff rooms. Many security estates set strict rules on outbuildings, so read the house rules before ordering. Yards and erectors sit in Rosslyn, Silverton and Pretoria West. Summer storms can be violent, with hail and lightning, and winters are dry with frosty mornings in the low parts of the city.
Who asks for granny flats around Pretoria, most often first:
- Backyard landlords and families: a 1 or 2 bedroom unit on the plot let out for steady monthly rent
- Homeowners: a cottage behind the main house for an elderly parent or a grown child
- Farms and smallholdings: a small cottage for a farm manager or family near the main farmhouse
- Schools and creches: a cottage on school grounds for a caretaker or a teacher living on site
Before you ask for prices in Pretoria
Yards and builders serving Pretoria mostly work from here: prefab and timber yards in Rosslyn, Silverton, Waltloo and Pretoria West. The requests that come up most: nutec rental rooms in the townships, wendy houses and garden offices in the east. When you ask for quotes, ask whether the quote covers offloading where township streets are narrow.
For backyard landlords and families, the biggest group here, granny flats usually means a 1 or 2 bedroom unit on the plot let out for steady monthly rent. Getting it to site: flatbeds and crane trucks from Rosslyn and Silverton reach most suburbs in a day.
Where we take requests around Pretoria
We pass Pretoria requests to teams based in or regularly working around Centurion, Hatfield, Waterkloof, Montana, Silver Lakes, Mooikloof, Akasia. If a crane truck must lift over a house or a wall, say so up front.