SA Affordable Housing September / October 2018 // Issue: 72 | Page 6

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Enhancing skills using ‘Eezi’ DIY kit
Created to enhance roofing and cladding skills in rural areas, Prize
Roofing lends a hand with its Eezi-Over Roofing kit.
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outh African inventor and patent holder of the
Agrément Approved Eezi-Over roofing kit, David
Prinsloo, says that South Africa’s and Africa’s rural
populations, have the desire and all the necessary traditional
and time proven skills to clad both the roof and walls of
traditional houses and other similar type structures.
“Currently the main problem is the size-limiting structural
strength of the roof and walls’ super structure. This is where,
together with suitably sized commercially available
structural timbers the Agrément Approved, easy to erect
and compact 40x40x40cm Eezi-Over Roofing kit comes in,”
he says.
To facilitate skills development in these areas, Prinsloo
envisages a distribution system that involves a qualified
contractor or supplier of the kit. The qualified contractor or
supplier provides recipients with a short course including a
lecture and demonstration on how to erect the sponsored kit
material. Over time the course and kit supply will generate
employment and skills transfer by creating specialist
suppliers, distributors, erectors and transporters.
This DIY kit contains everything you need to erect a roof (excluding
poles) and has potential to enhance skills in rural communities.
The kit has also been designed to form multi-kit structures,
ranging in size and suitable for schools, creches, community
halls and clinics or even a large four-bedroom en-suite
home where the kits will cost just R300 000 for the
materials only.