What’s your view like?

Do you want to incorporate your garden into the design of your Braai Area or do you want to hide from your neighbour’s  double storey house? 

Ideas for privacy could be a simple enhancement such as screening with bamboo or trelliswork to enhance, distract or hide.

Appliances & Fixtures

Do you want to braai with gas or coals?  Do you wish to have a Pizza Oven?

One should consider all the scenarios.  Each of these considerations brings different requirements such as – Where do I store my gas bottle?  Where do I store my wood or charcoal?  Even to the extent of ensuring that those items are safely installed and secured.  Let’s not kid ourselves – Sadly, in South Africa everything has to be properly secured because of opportunistic criminals.  Security and safety plays a huge role when designing an outdoor entertainment/braai area or even an indoor one.  It requires Electricians, Plumbers and Gas Technicians if you install a Gas Braai or Gas Pizza Oven.  These require certificates and are extremely important when trying to claim insurance.

The introduction of fixtures such a lighting and wash areas (basins for washing of hands and/or salad preparation or hand washing and for the fisherman – a place to clean and scale fish) which requires plumbing and associated fixtures such as taps and pipe connections to greywater or sewer pipes.