Foundations for your SelectHaus cabin

To build your SelectHaus cabin, you must have a level and stable base available to build on. This requires foundations of some sort to be built. The type of foundations required for your site depends on a number of a factors, including:

what kind soil do you have?
or are you building on a slope?
or are you adding a deck, or steps?
Perhaps you already have a concrete slab or pavers on which to build?
Do you plan to move your cabin in the future?

If you live in a high rainfall area, it is best if your cabin is mounted a little above ground level to prevent run-off entering or water ingress from rain splash.

Timber sub-frame and foundation kit

Select Haus can also supply you with a sturdy steel sub-frame kit for your cabin!

This is the strong start needed for your cabin. A galvanised box steel sub-frame base, resistant to termite infestation and rot. The sub-frame is supplied in the correct size of your cabin, along with all necessary brackets and fixings. The complete sub-frame can be assembled in an hour or two.

You can use our sub-frame directly on a solid base, such as a concrete pad, pavers or a compacted gravel base.

This sub-frame can be either mounted on concrete blocks (this also allows the possibility of moving in the future) or mounting on wooden or steel piles concreted into the ground.

If your slope is significant, posts or piers of appropriate different lengths can be fixed to the sub-frame and these most likely need to be concreted into the ground to create a solid footing.

If you are handy as a carpenter, may also shoose to build your own sub-frame from treated pine. This can then be either placed on pavers or connected to posts and concreted into the ground.

Select Haus steel sub-frame/foundations kit

Steel sub-frame on paver blocks