spyder880: I love building houses, and the attendant challenges that will inevitably come with it. I love making things happen, and working with skilled men to use materials in creating beautiful designs that will make a superb home. I have just been contracted by a Nairalander to build his house in Port Harcourt. The details are as follows;

Project: A 5 bedroom executive duplex
Client : A Nairalander
Duration: 60 days
Project cost: N8.8m (Foundation-roofing, materials and labour)
Contractor: Ckenneths Homes Nig.

This project will start this week as we arrange to travel down to the city and start work. This house comes with all the latest designs in modern building, granite, decent room arrangement with bigger bedrooms, internal plumbing and electricals, special parapet cornice, stone coated roofing tiles, everything.......

baby_123:

You think we have money and time for termite damage, flood sweeping away our houses. Do you think we have insurance on houses? We build it solid so it can last for years. The down side is that you cannot easily modify. Who cares about modifying if you get it all planned out at once.

Engrsam: @ Spider, i know how you are going to do this,am building a similar thing myself in calabar, beside am an Engineer, but i have spent over 13m,just about to start parapet and have not done rofing, let alone plastering and painting,i don't know how you want to perform the magic but i wish you good luck. find attached pix.

Abagworo:

Is the 8.8 milliion the entire project cost with plastering, roofing, landscaping and completion? I recently built a 6 bedroom duplex and it cost me 45million at a very controlled rate. I wonder how you expect to achieve a 5 bedroom with 8.8million.

Engrsam: @ Spider, i know how you are going to do this,am building a similar thing myself in calabar, beside am an Engineer, but i have spent over 13m,just about to start parapet and have not done rofing, let alone plastering and painting,i don't know how you want to perform the magic but i wish you good luck. find attached pix.

Abagworo:

Is the 8.8 milliion the entire project cost with plastering, roofing, landscaping and completion? I recently built a 6 bedroom duplex and it cost me 45million at a very controlled rate. I wonder how you expect to achieve a 5 bedroom with 8.8million.

spyder880:

Emmmm, do you think the type of wood needed to build a solid house safe from our unsafe society will be cheap to use as a substitute to blocks and concrete? Just asking?

antartica: Why don't nigerian builders use more woods in buildings,keep it streamlined and cost effective?

Why must it be all round concrete like you are building bunkers?

berem: You well so? How person go use wood build 4 story building? No be craze be that?

Empero1:

Ignorance is a disease ( no insult intended ). Sis , under normal circumstance , wood is the best material for erecting high risen buildings, in the west that's the norm .

berem: You well so? How person go use wood build 4 story building? No be craze be that?

berem: That's in the west and not Nigeria!.Did you consider the climatic differences first?

Empero1:

Climate difference is not an issue , with quality woods , you are good to go.

Empero1:

Ignorance is a disease ( no insult intended ). Sis , under normal circumstance , wood is the best material for erecting high rising buildings, in the west that's the norm .

spyder880:

Ok, although I have already spoken with some people and they are moving for it already, I will contact you if I need another set, thanks.

berem: Interesting! I bet no one in Nigeria would dare try building even a storey building with wood no matter how cheap it is. Clay Bricks which is good too, majority of Nigerians don't use it. We are used to Cement. That's why Dangote keep making billions from it.

spydee411: Did you say 8.8million Naira for a detached house. The budget it not feasible my brother! That money can barely get u to decking not to talk of roofing or plastering

spyder880:

You have a good point, PH is expensive in most things, from granite to sand and even the labour costs here na die! But I will be pushing the boundaries of focused spending with a deep knowledge about the safest ways to pay lower and get more for less. I will also be coming in with my team of workers from Enugu, and they must agree to work with me in PH with Enugu labour rates. I will build a 'batcher' for them to live on this site.

Empero1:

Majority of we Nigerians are not always ready to embrace change , that's the reason .

Afam4eva:
People are afraid to be the first to embrace change. They don';t want to be the first casualty of whatever may result from it. I don't know much about buildings but i want to believe there should be a reason why Nigerians go for blocks instead of wood. Could it be because we don't have quality woods in Nigeria or because woods are easily destroyable. I've seen houses in the US that were built with wood and were brought down by Tornadoes and hurricanes. I doubt if that will happen to bricks as much.