Before a single panel is cut, a good supplier wants a floor plan, a photo of the stand and an idea of your budget. Send those once for wooden houses in Brits and timber home builders serving Brits and nearby parts of North West can come back with written prices.
Brits and wooden houses
Wooden houses in Brits: give the size or number of bedrooms, whether the stand slopes, the cladding you like, whether you have plans and the address. Timber builders serving Brits, North West can quote for the frame, cladding, insulation, base and finishes.
Want to know more first? The wooden houses guide covers the types, the sizes and what affects the price.
What gets put up around Brits
Between the irrigation farms along the Crocodile River and the weekend homes at Hartbeespoort Dam, Brits has a wide range of prefab needs. Farms want staff housing, stores and offices; factories in the industrial area want site offices and canteens; landlords in Letlhabile, Mothutlung and Oukasie add backyard rooms for workers. Around Schoemansville and the dam, owners ask for timber cabins, wendy houses and granny flats, but many estates there have rules on materials and roof colours, so check before you order. Plots on the Magaliesberg slopes can be rocky and steep. Summer brings heat, hail and lightning. Suppliers come from local yards or the short drive from Pretoria, and council plans are needed for living space.
Typical wooden houses requests in the area come from:
- Homeowners: a timber family home on a sloping stand where brick would need big foundations
- Farms and smallholdings: a farm house or staff house built from treated pine near the plantations
- Backyard landlords and families: a timber cottage to rent out on a large plot or smallholding
- Shops, offices and small businesses: a timber shop, restaurant or venue building on a country road
Getting it right in Brits
Most asked for in Brits: farm staff housing, dam-side timber cabins and backyard rental rooms. Where the yards and builders are: yards in Brits and around Hartbeespoort, with many more in Pretoria. A useful tip: ask whether your estate allows timber, and for a delivered price up the slope.
Here homeowners lead the requests, typically for a timber family home on a sloping stand where brick would need big foundations. Plan for the weather: hot summers with hail and lightning; dry winters with sharp frost in the valleys.
On the ground in Brits
Around Hartbeespoort and Schoemansville, log homes and wooden houses suit the mountain views, but estate rules may limit timber, so ask for the guidelines first. Farms along the Crocodile River ask about nutec houses and container homes for managers. In Brits town, owners add a wendy house for storage or a modular unit for family. Ask for good roof insulation against summer heat.
Brits and the areas nearby
Suppliers and builders on our network work in Brits and around it, including Hartbeespoort, Letlhabile, Mothutlung, Oukasie, Damonsville, Mooinooi, Schoemansville. Give the suburb or township and say whether a truck can reach the stand, so the quote allows for delivery and offloading.