Baufritz

[Susan2024]

Hello,

Have been looking at Baufritz. Has anyone any experience of building with their prefab super homes? Would be curious to know how they were to work with and what the end product was like. Do you recommend them?

 

[ToughButterCup]

Welcome.

I'm not sure if anyone here (on this board) has any experience of Baufritz: as I understand it they are a "Turnkey" company. Our focus is more on doing it on your own. 

Perhaps you could ask the company if they have any existing clients who are willing to talk to prospective customers. 

[jack]

14 hours ago, Susan2024 said:

Hello,

Have been looking at Baufritz. Has anyone any experience of building with their prefab super homes? Would be curious to know how they were to work with and what the end product was like. Do you recommend them?

 

 

Sorry Susan, at least from a search of the word "Baufritz", no-one's posted about them before.
 

Still, it's possible someone might have had interactions with them but not mentioned it.

 

Also, BuildHub will still be a useful place to get information about everything Baufritz doesn't do (if you use them). You can get independent feedback on your house plans, for example, or about landscaping, planning, etc.

 

Good luck.

[Nickfromwales]

Well, they celebrated building their 100th home in the UK in 2023, but that is a tiny percentage. My marketing team discovered that there are somewhere between 15,000 to 18,000 UK self builds per annum in the UK (domestic 1-offs) as an 'average' (albeit these were quite difficult statistics to accurately ascertain) so that's the way I gauge their 'presence'.

 

Might I ask what the attraction to this particular company is? I am indifferent btw, just more curious than anything. What size home are you building?

[Gone West]

17 hours ago, Susan2024 said:

Have been looking at Baufritz.

We also looked at Baufritz, back in 2009, when we were considering what we were going to build. We liked the look a great deal, and we thought the wood fibre insulation was interesting but unfortunately it was outside our budget. Only the price put us off 🥲.

[gravelld]

Google:

site:buildhub.org.uk Baufritz

 

[Deborah Waters]

My Husband and I have built a Baufritz house and it has been completed just over a year now.  We chose a turnkey option although Baufritz are happy to provide just the shell.

From start to finish, I can honestly say that that I cannot praise them enough.

I designed the house based loosely on another Baufritz house. The architect was happy to take my lead and make the plans work. At every stage, their can-do attitude ensured that any problem was solved swiftly with the minimum fuss. 
When considering a self build, our biggest worry was the budget getting away.

Baufritz gave us an initial price based on a number of questions and options. Once we decided to go ahead and obtained planning permission, we were flown out to Germany to see the factory and chose the internal fittings. The final price is then set depending on our choices which was pretty close to the original figure. That price is agreed and fixed. We paid not a penny more despite materials prices soaring between signing and the build. Baufritz dealt with demolition of our bungalow, groundwork’s and all preparations. They insist on using their own contractors in order to guarantee standards and scheduling. We were given a detailed schedule and they completed it 6 weeks earlier than estimated.

As somebody has said, Baufritz are not cheap but you can see where every penny goes. The quality of the materials are top draw. Skirtings and doors are solid oak the quality of workmanship is second to none. Nothing was left to chance and on the rare occasion a hitch arose, everyone, no matter which trade, worked together to deal with the problem. 
The German work ethic blew me away. Arriving at 7.30am, they would plan what had to be achieved that day and would work until the scheduled tasks were completed, no matter what that time was. Nobody left the site before 5pm.

how does the house perform? Without heating, the super insulated rooms and heat recovery system maintains a steady 19-22 degrees.  We have an air source heat pump which gets little use.
We installed solar panels with battery storage, so once the batteries are charged, surplus power is sold to the grid providing credit to take us through the winter months.
Our plan was to build a super insulated, easy to maintain home to take us into our retirement and we are very happy with the result.

[Alan Ambrose]

Yeah, we have some friends with one, and it looks good quality. I imagine it is a low anxiety route compared with other methods, but presumably with a hefty price premium?

[Gus Potter]

On 08/05/2025 at 21:36, Deborah Waters said:

My Husband and I have built a Baufritz house and it has been completed just over a year now.

Welcome to BH by the way Deborah.

 

That is glowing report.

16 hours ago, Alan Ambrose said:

Yeah, we have some friends with one, and it looks good quality. I imagine it is a low anxiety route compared with other methods, but presumably with a hefty price premium?

Agree. But there is always an inherant risk about buying from abroad. If things start to go wrong then there may not be a local resource you can call up to fix things on site in the heat of battle... like phone a friend. If you are on a tight programme then it's a balancing excercise.. do we go local or not.