Prefab wooden houses.....who builds them?

[glacier1]

Hi guys!

I have friends of mine moving from the UK to France in the next few months, they are going to look for plots and then try to find a company which makes pre-fabricated wooden houses, and get them to build them on the land.  I have heard about this, because I watch a lot of "Grand Designs" but they deal mainly with German prefabs and American prefabs.  If the technology exsists, then it must exsist in France too! ;) Has anybody seen/heard of a company which builds houses, if so, do you know their name/location?  They want to build, but as cheaply as possible, houses these days cost upwards of 100,000 euro, count in the cost of the land and your pretty much sunk.  I've seen these houses for 30k -> 40k when I was looking at them a few years back.  Any advise?

Thanks! [:D]

[gosub]

Here's one company to get you started:  http://www.confortbois.com/

And if you google "maison bois france"  you will find a few more.[:)]

[Cendrillon]

They need to be sure that they will get planning permission to build a wooden house. One couple in our area are re-selling their land because they were not allowed to build a house of wood, it is not in keeping with local architecture.

[glacier1]

thanks les, I did have a look at maison bois france and it came up with big companies, I would like to find the small one's too :)

Have a good sunday

[Clair]

http://www.maisons-bois.org/maison-bois-constructeurs.html

[glacier1]

thanks Clair :)

[maude]

very typical this when we are inundated with beige "bungalows" all the same shape.colour,and the size of my garage.I also have heard the same thing,unless of course its the maire or family who are building in wood. Maude