Numero uuuno: its good to know you find time for your kids.
Weldone man

mufutau55:

If you guys can read carefully through the whole previous 73 Pages, you will see what affected the budget changes..
Everyone here knows the honest financial disclosure of Spyder.. so just go back and read the whole thread and some of his other threads.

Hajji Mufutau

Somorin#1:


Why did you even respond to this thread?

Do you care to show us your projects and the estimates?

cruxkhalif:

Oga Hajji,

All respects to you.

Someone looking for a contractor for his job will not read 73 pages to understand why the cost of your project had a 50% increase. People just don't have that time. A first glance is what they take home. So if contractors submit profiles of previous jobs they've done, all you want to see is if the projects meets the 3 project management criteria for success. That is why the contractors take out time to be sure that what they quote is what they can deliver. No client wants the goal post to be shifted in the middle of the game.

I respect Spyder and I've commended him on the quality of his work. I've even reached out to him one on one. I'm just saying, for interests sake, a 50% mark up is just too much for a quoted contract. Except of course, it is from the client's changing taste.

Enough said.

Degis:

Hubris is a very bad attribute, so is the inability to articulate one's thought effectively.

You want Sypder to be the contractor for your project but you don't have the presence of mind to go through the documented evidence of the various reasons that necessesitated a price increase but you have the temerity to complain about the price jump?

Well, some mothers do have them.

cruxkhalif:

Your first question doesn't deserve an answer! I'm sure you know that!

To your second question, I'm not a contractor, rather I'm Spyder's potential client. That is why I have my concerns!

Happy?

cruxkhalif:

Need I blame you for your inability to comprehend an effective communication!

And where did arrogance show itself in my communications?

Go ahead and cry louder than the bereaved.

And yes, some mothers do 'av 'em! You should know!

spyder880:

1. Foundation N 3.4m
2. Ground floor N 1.4m
3. Decking N 2.4m
4. First floor N 1.9m
5. Parapet and roofing N 4.2m
6. Finish ....... Still in progress.

Please note that this is no ordinary house plan, there are lots of added features at every stage that added to the construction costs. The style alone is not the simple, everyday patterns we see everywhere. Look at the parapet alone, the windows, the frontal arcs, the roof type and the other designs still being made now.


This house is different, a mansion on its own.

Somorin#1:


It's a valid question. If you have no answer or chose not to answer it is another matter entirely.

Thankfully my level of happiness has no based on your approval.

I really hope the OP practices the right to refuse service.

Nothing good can come from any business association with your types, IMHO.

hardywaltz: Dear Spyder880,
I must say i'm trilled by this tread,
I stumbled on this tread in its infant stages but was put off by the cost N8.8m, as an experienced builder of several years and a Chartered Quantity Surveyor, cost is @ my finger tips, so seeing the N8.8m initial cost i just concluded that the project would either be halted or experience a major cost over-run and with my experience in building i knew the 60days scheduled completion time was almost an impossible timeline.
I just decided to take a break from the political section and all their tribal wars and out of curiously decided to check up on this tread and was waaooed.

Going through the entire 75 pages i made a few observations:
1) The building seems a little close to 132/331 kv transmission lines, i hope u have all the necessary approval because the standard set back for those high tension is 25m on either side.

2) The Lintol on both floors (ground & floor) was cast in a ring form i.e on all walls, most people do this but i have always wondered why coz it has no structural bearing but only increases cost.

3) I noticed you decked the building after 12 courses of blockwork on the ground floor that may account for your low headroom on the palour after the POP was dropped. These days its best to decide what the ceiling finishes will be so as to decide how many courses of block. If you were to do an under-decking screeding you wouldn't have experienced that.
I noticed that you made the correction on the first floor 13 courses.

4) This concrete fascia thingy i see it as trending, i.e it will soon fade away thereby making it easy for people to guess the era it was built, just like send down the rain type of roof.

All in all i must commend you on your rare courage and wish luck, but try consulting a Quantity Surveyor next time.
I have now moved to more of consultancy service than site works because i discovered most clients like to be lied to. They prefer people who submit unrealistic cost to them than those of us that give them a near accurate figure, some of my colleagues now submit far lesser quotation just to win the jobs since they know that most clients will be willing to continue building despite massive cost overruns, all they can do is grumble behind their backs. However as a Quantity Surveyor i see that as a call to my credibility for any unnecessary cost overrun or variation in terms of cost other than those induced by the client. If i submit my cost to a client and he starts saying that someone else (usually Architects, Civil Eng. or masons) gave him a far lower cost i just advise them to go along with the other person.
That was the primary reason i abandoned this tread when it started.

Kudos

kingdvd:

thank u Gen. Spyder, u are so wonderful

brabus: By their fruit we shall know them... Matthew 7: 15 - 20

What's the result of the match between Spyder880 and His Kids? We'll like to know

tommyvicky: Hello Spyder,

Sorry to take you back. Please how did you arrange the frontal pillars to arrive at a hollow of 225 X 255 in the middle.What were the exterior dimension of the blocks?

specco:
Oga Spyder, I doff my hat for you. I've been watching and relishing your expertise, knowledge and skill right from the clearing of the land on which this beautiful mansion stands. Kudos to you. Please I need your expertise on the problem at hand. I have a friend who in 2007 built a duplex up to the decking level(don't know the correct terminology) and had a financial setback and couldn't continue since then. He plastered and moved in pending when things would improve to built up. Now the problem is that the decking has started leaking water during raining seasons. Please apart from roofing at that stage, what else could solve his problem and stop the widespread leakages from the decking? Solution will be appreciated.

yusufu16: spyder880:

I am very much impressed with the quality of this project. I am a Civil Engineer, I can only say kudos to you sir. In other places, this house would probably cost higher that what you spent to bring it to this stage. You are really prudent and at the same time keeping to quality in your project

Somorin#1:
Will the cost be more or less if this structure was constructed in Ibadan?

cyntiathis: Nice Job Mr.spyder008, i like the house and the parapet is so smooth.
Please my Oga was woundering if one can fix parapet on a Duplex built just like yours,
I.e six solid at the floor and six hollow on the first floor. is it advisable?
thankx.

mufutau55:

And YES, YOU HAVE BEEN DOING IT!!! SUCCESSFULLY TOO!!

Sorry Football (soccer) is not my thing... I and all my kids are into Basketball and Football (American) with the Big Boys.
Enjoy with your kid at his soccer game.

Hajji Mufutau

spyder880:

Leaking decking is a hard problem, some floor it with hard cement and smooth and shine it like the floor, some even fix tiles on the deck. I have also seen a man that poured tar on his deck, the type of tar that is used to do roads, he just melted it and poured on the decking.

specco:

Thanks Oga Spyder your views and worries are well taken.I should advise my friend accordingly. Keep up the good work

specco:

Thanks Oga Spyder your views and worries are well taken.I should advise my friend accordingly. Keep up the good work