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🇿🇦 Double-skin clay brick masonry

South Africa House Bill of Quantities Generator

A real brick-and-plaster quantity takeoff, scoped for NHBRC enrolment and bank-loan documentation.

A South African building-cost calculator gets you a fast Rand-per-square-metre range. What it doesn't get you is the itemized line-item list your bank, your NHBRC enrolment, or a quantity surveyor actually works from.

This generator builds that itemized list around South Africa's real dominant wall system — double-skin clay brick, roughly 100 bricks per square metre for the full cavity wall — and follows the category structure the Association of South African Quantity Surveyors (ASAQS) publishes specifically for small and simple buildings under 500m² and two storeys, which is precisely this tool's scope. A single geyser line (not one per bathroom — the real South African convention) and an electrical Certificate of Compliance are both modeled as their own real, priced items.

You price every line yourself in ZAR — material and labor rates here move with the same import and currency pressures every South African builder already prices around, so a single published national figure would be stale before you finished reading it. What this tool gives you instead is a real quantity list you can hand to an NHBRC-registered builder, a bank, or your own quantity surveyor, sized specifically to how a small residential build is actually measured here.

What's in a South Africa BOQ from this generator

  • Foundation and substructure
  • Double-skin clay brick walls (outer and inner leaf), ~100 bricks/m²
  • Roof structure and covering
  • Windows and doors
  • Plastering, internal finishes and paint
  • Single central geyser, plumbing and electrical fixtures
  • Electrical Certificate of Compliance (COC)
  • NHBRC enrolment fee
  • Staircases and double garage, where selected
CurrencyZAR
Construction SystemDouble-skin clay brick masonry
BOQ StandardSANS 227 / SANS 1575, referenced against the ASAQS standard system
PricingYour own local rates — free

South Africa Bill of Quantities — Frequently Asked Questions

Is this generator scoped for a full ASAQS bill of quantities, or something simpler?
It follows ASAQS's own Standard System for Small or Simple Buildings — residential units under 500m² and up to two storeys, which is exactly this tool's real scope, not the full commercial-scale ASAQS bill format.
Does this generator price a geyser per bathroom, the way some calculators do?
No — one central geyser sized for the whole house is the real South African convention, and that's what this generator models, rather than an inflated per-bathroom count that doesn't match how South African homes are actually plumbed.
Does this tool include an NHBRC enrolment fee line?
Yes — a real NHBRC enrolment adjustment (defaulted to the sheet-cited 1.3% of contract value, fully editable) sits alongside the itemized brick, plaster and finishing quantities.
Does this generator account for the cost swing between provinces (KZN vs. Western Cape)?
Not yet with a province selector — that's a real, known gap, disclosed rather than papered over with a single blended national rate. You price every line with your own local, province-specific rates in the meantime.
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Generate a real South Africa BOQ, free

Real quantities calculated from your project's size and construction system — you price every line with your own ZAR rates. No fabricated national average, no fake accuracy claim.

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