We gather here once again to do another project for a Nairalander. We have gone into an agreement to build a suspended slab, otherwise known as a decking on this block of flats in PH.

Details of the project are as follows.

Project: Construction of a suspended slab
Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers State of Nigeria
Client: A Nairalander
Contractor: Tigerkenn Nig LTD.
Project duration: 30 days.

Watch as we congregate and do a good work as usual, utilising the best building materials and employing skilled workers to achieve better building structures. Welcome all.

This morning, we started cleaning the site to remove grasses and give us space to work.

The location of this project means that we will be passing around the East-West road in PH, this road is under construction and may give us some problems. We are poised to confront the supply problems envisaged.

ALL ABOUT THE DECKING SLAB

In home building construction, people get confused with different technical terminologies being used by industry professionals to describe different types of the work. Since its not everyone that underwent training in construction engineering, a need therefore arises to explain some of the technical terms we might meet in home construction. This is why we are going to look at the term “decking”.
A decking, which could be described by insiders in the building industry as the suspended slab, is a platform built to hang on top of a building ground floor unit, and therefore forms the floor for the upper unit of a building. There are many materials that could be used to create a decking platform. Engineers have used metal sheets, aluminum, hard wood, concrete, synthetic fibres and thick plywood boards to create different shapes and sizes of decking for use in different types of buildings.
For the sake of this write up, we are going to be focusing our attention on the concrete decking slab. The concrete decking slab is made when the objective of the deck is durability and safety. Among other types of decking materials, the concrete is among the most reliable, it could last for very long, even up to hundreds of years. In buildings where fire could be a risk, the concrete deck could be relied upon as compared to wood or plywood. The concrete deck also fits well on buildings especially those started with concrete columns and beams.
The concrete beam is always reinforced with good quality metal bars (iron rods). The specifications of the rods that should work in any decking slab should be detailed by a qualified building professional, specified in the building plans and approved by the state or local authorities to ensure compliance to existing building codes. There are so many types of iron bars for different decking slabs, there is the 25mm, 20mm, 16mm, 12mm, 10mm, 8mm etc. These iron rods are used in the combination suited for the project, as stated in the building plans.
There are also specifications on the thickness of the slab, the mixing ratio for sand and aggregates like granite, gravel and for cement. Care should be taken to ensure a superb mix for the decking slab concrete, a good concrete mixer is advised where it is available. A concrete poking vibrator is also a very useful tool to ensure the efficiency of the decking process.
The following pictures are for the decking we have completed in the past, we have started and completed more than 60 different decking slabs in different locations, for more questions and inquiry, call Kenn on 08033350750.

We have bought the whole wood for this decking work.

And started work

From the ground

Views from the top

Bringing out the cantilevers.

Prof, thanks for the quick lessons on concreting.
I trust your judgement on the integrity of this structure especially on the foundation done by someone else. Good luck man.

Essential Concrete producing formular

Cement + Granite + Granite Dust(Stone Dust) + Water(avoid salty water)

Concrete is the strength of building construction works.

Stone dust is cheap do not be deceived.

N.B Salt is a catalyst that promote rapid rusting of reinforcement(iron) in concrete, avoid it to a zero level

Spyder, Hopefully at the end we will get an average cost of 1m2 of decking all inclusive or do you have a ballpack figure?

Shooting out the cantilevers

More images from the top

We are doing some planned modifications to the block walls, to ensure an optimum utilisation of space.

It's a huge space.

@Spyder, the structure looks big. What's the composition of each flat, how many of them and how many floors?

Decking beams reinforcement

Dining section remakes.

Staircase area

The platform

I really love curved staircases. But looks like we hardly do that here.

Spyd,
Are you saying your work here is strictly to construct the suspended slab and then demob?

spyder880: We gather here once again to do another project for a Nairalander. We have gone into an agreement to build a suspended slab, otherwise known as a decking on this block of flats in PH.

Details of the project are as follows.

Project: Construction of a suspended slab
Location: Port Harcourt, Rivers State of Nigeria
Client: A Nairalander
Contractor: Tigerkenn Nig LTD.
Project duration: 30 days.

Watch as we congregate and do a good work as usual, utilising the best building materials and employing skilled workers to achieve better building structures. Welcome all.

I like this question. Whatcha say, Spyd?

Whalesss: Spyder, Hopefully at the end we will get an average cost of 1m2 of decking all inclusive or do you have a ballpack figure?

VIPICO: Spyd,
Are you saying your work here is strictly to construct the suspended slab and then demob?

No, the first contract is to construct the suspended slab, my client also wants us to continue the house till roofing stage. Welcome.

VIPICO: I like this question. Whatcha say, Spyd?

I will work on the costs as usual bro, I am so much in motion these days that calculating things is not easy as I rush to complete things everywhere.

Electrical piping works ongoing under this decking

On top of the deck today

More iron work

We are busy

The staircase area.

Now I get where you got your name from.You are indeed a spider spinning its web,this looks more like a spider web. You are such a genius in this your work, and from all indication you seem to be an honest person. I hope one day i would have enough money to seek your services. Keep-up the good work