Need wooden cabins in KwaZulu-Natal? PrefabricatedHomes.co.za puts backyard landlords and families and everyone else in KwaZulu-Natal in touch with cabin and chalet builders working in towns, townships and farms across KwaZulu-Natal. One request, free, no obligation.
Wooden Cabins for KwaZulu-Natal
Looking for wooden cabins in KwaZulu-Natal? Say the size, whether it is for sleeping, a studio or guests, if you need a shower and kitchen, and what the site is like: flat, sloping or hard to reach. Cabin builders who work in KwaZulu-Natal and around KwaZulu-Natal will quote the cabin and delivery.
For the full picture, from frames to finishes, see the wooden cabins guide.
KwaZulu-Natal notes on rooms, cabins & buildings
Schools across the province use prefab classrooms, from rural Zululand to fast growing areas near Cornubia and Ballito. Contractors at Richards Bay, the Durban harbour and near King Shaka airport hire site offices and ablution units. Wooden cabins and chalets suit guest farms near Underberg, Himeville and the Champagne Valley, and granny flats in Durban North, Amanzimtoti and Scottburgh are often let to holiday visitors or students.
KwaZulu-Natal: the ground, the weather and the yards
Humidity is the steady enemy of prefab buildings in KwaZulu-Natal. On the coast from Port Shepstone to Ballito and Richards Bay, salt air rusts steel and fixings, and damp gets into any timber that is not sealed. Inland, the Midlands around Howick and Nottingham Road and the Drakensberg foothills near Underberg and Bergville build log cabins, chalets and cottages for guests. Durban townships such as Umlazi, KwaMashu and Inanda add backyard rooms and granny flats on steep stands, and sugar cane and timber farms need staff housing. Steep slopes, heavy summer rain and termites in the warmer areas call for a careful base and treated wood. Plans go to the local municipality before anything is built.
Who asks for wooden cabins around KwaZulu-Natal, most often first:
- Backyard landlords and families: a lined one room cabin with a shower let to a single tenant
- Homeowners: a garden studio, guest room or home office in timber at the bottom of the garden
- Lodges, guest farms and resorts: self-catering chalets on stilts with a covered stoep facing the view
- Farms and smallholdings: a weekend cabin or worker's cottage on a farm, put up without heavy machines
Before you ask for prices in KwaZulu-Natal
Yards and builders serving KwaZulu-Natal mostly work from here: yards around Durban, Pinetown and Pietermaritzburg; others near Richards Bay. The requests that come up most: backyard rooms on steep stands, Midlands and Berg cabins, cane farm housing. When you ask for quotes, ask for coated roof sheets and fixings near the sea, and how they handle the slope.
For backyard landlords and families, the biggest group here, wooden cabins usually means a lined one room cabin with a shower let to a single tenant. Getting it to site: along the N2 and N3; hillside plots may need a small truck or carrying by hand.
Where we take requests around KwaZulu-Natal
Across KwaZulu-Natal our network reaches Durban, Pietermaritzburg, Umhlanga, Ballito, Richards Bay, Newcastle, Port Shepstone and the towns between them. Outside the bigger centres, ask whether delivery and the crane are charged per kilometre or per load.