I really don't know how to go about this, i'm not an engineer neither i'm i an architect. I'm simply a sales man who is curious. In my line of business(doors, Sanitary wares, Tile, e.t.c) i regularly get to meet customers who give me the impression that they are spending more doing the finishing than erecting the structure itself.

Whenever this issue come's up, i'm like, hmmm (in my mind), does it mean that cost of the bnumerous bags of cement, iron rods, planks, building blocks required to erect a structure is lesser to the cost of doing the finishing(sanitary, Kitchen cabinets, beedroom cabinets, tiles, doors).

I really commend anyone undertaking any project big or small, cos its not easy buying a single bag of cement. But i and some other people like me would like to know which is MORE EXPENSIVE.

Like the proverbial saying goes, count your cost before building.

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Thanks.

Walter

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Both are expensive but you can do 'form' work bit by bit, for instance if you have #20,000:00 you can buy few bags of cement and call in your brick layer to come and set few blocks for you and leave it for a while to continue later.
but when it comes to finishing you need alot of money to do things for example(if things being equal)you will not want to roof your sitting room and abandone other rooms till latter day,also you will not want to fix window in your master room and leave the rest, Finishing takes bulk money more than form work.

from my own angle!

Femonjay: Both are expensive but you can do 'form' work bit by bit, for instance if you have #20,000:00 you can buy few bags of cement and call in your brick layer to come and set few blocks for you and leave it for a while to continue later.
but when it comes to finishing you need alot of money to do things for example(if things being equal)you will not want to roof your sitting room and abandone other rooms till latter day,also you will not want to fix window in your master room and leave the rest, Finishing takes bulk money more than form work.

from my own angle!

@femonjay Thanks for your insight. You are certainly right about the doing "form work" bit by bit, it makes a whole lot of sense. once again thanks for your contribution.

Walter

Pls share your thoughts.

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