Kuip

Wood-fired tubs built one at a time in a shed off the R103

Cedar, oak and a stove that gets 1 400 litres to forty degrees on one bag of dry wattle. We deliver anywhere between Underberg and the Free State border.

See the six we build

What you are actually buying

Clear cedar, no knots, no glue
Clear cedar, no knots, no glue
Two hours from cold on dry wattle
Two hours from cold on dry wattle
Level pad, gravel or lawn
Level pad, gravel or lawn
Delivered on a bakkie, not a truck
Delivered on a bakkie, not a truck

Six tubs, and what each one costs

Wynand, and a shed off the R103

Wynand Coetzee spent nine years as a cooper at a cellar outside Wellington before he came up to the Midlands, and the first tub he built was for his own back yard at Lidgetton, because the winter here is a good deal colder than people from the Cape expect it to be. That was 2012. The shed is still on the same piece of ground, and everything on this page is made in it — staves machined and tongued, hoops bent and drawn, stoves cut and welded, and the whole thing dry-assembled on the floor before it comes apart again and goes onto the bakkie. There is no showroom. If you want to see one, phone and come out on a Saturday morning: there is usually something half-built on the floor and there is always one standing outside with water in it. We build between thirty and forty a year, which is as many as two people can do properly, and we would rather tell you the wait is nine weeks than tell you six and then phone you in August with a story.

It gets to minus two here in July

Which is when everybody wants one and when the wait is longest. Pick a tub, then tell us where it is going in the form at the foot of this page and we will give you a real date.

Pick a tub

Tell us where it is going

How many people, whether there is water at the spot, whether the pad is level, and roughly how far you are from Lidgetton. That is everything we need to give you a real price and a real date.