Where to buy cheap building Materials near Maseru? Learn about foundation materials for building

building materials near me

Are you looking for cheap building materials near you or near Maseru or Hlotse, or wherever you are? In this article you will learn where you can sell or buy building material that is used. Not only is that, but you will learn about cheap building materials supply.

I once heard of this guy who wanted to build a house without calculating what it would cost him to buy building materials to complete his house. He made a mistake of not comparing which building materials supply is cheaper, he just bought from the first supplier he went to.

Therefore this shows how foolish it is not to compare which building material to be used shall cost. In this article I am going to ensure that the next time you go out to a nearby building material shop, you have done your research.

Before going deeper with this article, let me give you an overview of how this article is structured:

  • Building materials stores
  • Foundations building materials
  • Building materials distributors
  • Building materials supply wholesale near me
  • Concrete in building materials
  • Cost of house building materials
  • Building materials auction near me
  • Building materials recycling
  • Which building material is most profitable?

Before going any further, let me give the past articles in my archives:

Let’s dive in with this article.

Building materials Stores near me

building material stores

One of the first things you must take into consideration is transportation for your house building materials. For you to consider the transportation of your building materials well, you must locate which is the cheapest and the nearest building materials stores near you.

You can buy materials from a cheap store yet it is too far away from you. This will cost you a lot of money to transport those goods used for constructing your house. This is why you should compare all the stores beforehand so that you don’t incur unnecessary costs.

The question is, where can you find building material stores near. The following are the stores which sell building materials in Lesotho:

  • Laduma building materials
  • Cashbuild
  • Buildit
  • EZBuild
  • Builders City
  • Khotso Hardware
  • Super Hardware
  • Salman Hardware & Furniture
  • Maseru Cash & Carry
  • Essential Hardware
  • Hardware Center (pty) Ltd
  • Thetsane Hardware (pty) Ltd
  • Masianokeng Building Materials

The list is endless. For a full list of companies where you can buy hardware and building materials, check Lesotho business directory website.

Foundations building materials for sale

Foundations building materials

Now that you have found the perfect store for your building materials, you now need to select the materials for building your perfect house. Oh before I go on and on about these materials, let me ask you. What type of a house do you want to build? Is it a flat or a parapet? Or is it a normal brick house?

I want you to comment below this article and tell me what kind of a house you are going to build. Now, let me get back to our topic. For your foundation to be hard as a rock, you need to buy the following

  • Cement
  • Concrete
  • Rough Sand
  • You need lots of water

You will need to make a mixture of those 4 things in order to make a hard foundation. You will then use the mixture to lay the foundation of your house. A foundation that is formed of cement, concrete stones and rough sand is the hardest. This mixture is often used while building flat houses.

Building materials distributors

After identifying materials needed for constructing our house, you need suppliers for those different materials. Let me talk about rough sand. You can get it yourself at the river without having to buy it. 

If you don’t have a tractor or cattle to fetch the rough sand, ask your colleague who has cattle to get it for you. From there, there are people who use their motor vans to help deliver goods to other people. In most cases, they stand outside the building material stores. Ensure that you hire the one you can afford.

You have learnt about building materials supply wholesalers near you. Now it is about time we move onto another section of this article. I am going to talk about concrete in building materials and the cost of house building materials.

The cost of house building materials

I take it that you have spotted the right hardware where you are going to purchase your building materials. I also assume that you have calculated how much materials you are going to need. I am saying this because the more goods you buy, the higher your chances of getting a discounted price.

Let’s say you buy 4 roofing planks and there is another customer  who is buying 300 planks. Who do you think will get a discount while trading? I am sure you get my point. If you have enough money, ensure that you buy your goods in bulk so that you stand a chance to get a discount.

want that type of house in my household.

The cost of house building materials

Let’s get back to our topic.

The cost of house building materials in Lesotho or near Maseru are a bit costly. I think it all depends on the building material wholesale, but as a rough estimation, if you are building a 2 room house, I think roofing will cost something like M20, 000 or 20,000 ZAR. I may be wrong about this because I am just estimating. But to be frank with you, roofing materials are expensive. Oh let me not use the word expensive, it is costly to buy roofing materials.

From today onwards I am sure you have realized that it is not cheap to build your own house. But it all depends on the place where you are to build your house. 

In the rural areas, especially in the highlands and foothills, it doesn’t even cost a mere M10,000 to build a house. All you need is cutting down trees, preparing a Sesotho beer and food for people who will assist you in constructing your house. It doesn’t take a month to build a house. It takes 1 or 2 weeks to finish it.

In the rural areas houses are built with trees, mud and grass for roofing. After that, the house shall be complete. The owner can move in permanently. Those are what we call traditional Sotho houses. I have already indicated that those houses are mostly found in the highlands. But I must confess here and right now that I

Building materials recycling and auctions near me

Sometimes you will find that not all purchased materials are to be used. You will find that you have extra materials left while building your house. The question is, what are you going to do with those left building materials? 

In Lesotho, Habitat for Humanity accepts left building materials. Sometimes you will find that there are cut plans everywhere, those pieces can be sold to Habitat for Humanity or you can recycle them and do useful things.

How to recycle used building materials

  • You can use them to make furniture
  • You make wood chairs for children
  • They can be used for firewood
  • Cut corrugated iron can be used to make poultry roofing
  • Some of those cut corrugated iron can be used to make cleaning equipment
  • Etc

Which building material is most profitable?

If you want to start a hardware business or a building material business, this is one of the questions you need to take into consideration. There many goods you can sell in your hardware store, below are the most profitable building material:

  • Slabs
  • Cement
  • Corrugated iron sheets and other Roofing materials
  • Concrete sheets
  • Prefabricated panels
  • Stone cladding
  • Planks
  • Aggregates
  • Plumbing materials
  • Steel & Metal products
  • Electrical materials and accessories
  • Glass
  • Paints

You need to sell electrical appliances and plumbing in your hardware. The reason why you need them is that people nowadays want electricity and indoor toilets and showers. You cannot let people buy only building materials from your store and go purchase other needed goods from other stores. Those goods are related, after building a house, there should be electricity to give light in that particular house.

Unfortunately this is where you end in this article. I am sure you learnt which building materials are needed and how much it might cost you to build a house. You also learnt that the location where your house is to be built counts too. I want to hear from you, do you prefer a mud house or a modern house with electricity and water or what? Don’t forget to share and subscribe to my site. Until next time ciao