spyder880: I called this my carpenter and asked for the completion status and he assured me that the job has been completed, only for me to move to site some moments ago and. ..........

Sometimes these workers makes things difficult for us, but he cannot spoil my weekend, I will sit on his neck for the rest of today Pikin wey say im papa no go sleep. ............

Fhemmmy: MY Chairman sir . . . Cost effect oh.

ekoibile:
Oloye, this your simple and humble question has stood long unanswered, and don't ask me why oh
From my calculation, this house is only 12feet by 33.9 feet, that is a total built area of 407 Sq;Feet.
With due respect to the Oga wey him get this house, it is a very small house and the cost of moving into it shouldn't be more than between 6,158 and 7,391 US dollars. N1.2 million naira at the most. Cost of land apart. This is possible in the South west here.

Sir, with this amount of money at your disposal and with an honest man at the other end (not the case study people oh), you and your madam can make it your petit Naija vacation home. A mini swimming pool to match would not be bad, at least until the need for a bigger something arises. Na so i see am oh, dis question no difficult na?

ekoibile:
Oloye, this your simple and humble question has stood long unanswered, and don't ask me why oh
From my calculation, this house is only 12feet by 33.9 feet, that is a total built area of 407 Sq;Feet.
With due respect to the Oga wey him get this house, it is a very small house and the cost of moving into it shouldn't be more than between 6,158 and 7,391 US dollars. N1.2 million naira at the most. Cost of land apart. This is possible in the South west here.

Sir, with this amount of money at your disposal and with an honest man at the other end (not the case study people oh), you and your madam can make it your petit Naija vacation home. A mini swimming pool to match would not be bad, at least until the need for a bigger something arises. Na so i see am oh, dis question no difficult na?

ekoibile:
Oloye, this your simple and humble question has stood long unanswered, and don't ask me why oh
From my calculation, this house is only 12feet by 33.9 feet, that is a total built area of 407 Sq;Feet.
With due respect to the Oga wey him get this house, it is a very small house and the cost of moving into it shouldn't be more than between 6,158 and 7,391 US dollars. N1.2 million naira at the most. Cost of land apart. This is possible in the South west here.

Sir, with this amount of money at your disposal and with an honest man at the other end (not the case study people oh), you and your madam can make it your petit Naija vacation home. A mini swimming pool to match would not be bad, at least until the need for a bigger something arises. Na so i see am oh, dis question no difficult na?

mufutau55:

Oga Ekoibile, if nah for only N1.2m everybody for Nigeria for don get house oh! No, that money is too small.. But no need to rush, Oga Spyder always give us the finishing cost. He used to give us cost as he goes along but too many projects and those who always criticized him made him stop doing that. He is the most open guy on this forum. So just stay tuned.

Hajji M.

ekoibile:
Oloye, this your simple and humble question has stood long unanswered, and don't ask me why oh
From my calculation, this house is only 12feet by 33.9 feet, that is a total built area of 407 Sq;Feet.
With due respect to the Oga wey him get this house, it is a very small house and the cost of moving into it shouldn't be more than between 6,158 and 7,391 US dollars. N1.2 million naira at the most. Cost of land apart. This is possible in the South west here.

Sir, with this amount of money at your disposal and with an honest man at the other end (not the case study people oh), you and your madam can make it your petit Naija vacation home. A mini swimming pool to match would not be bad, at least until the need for a bigger something arises. Na so i see am oh, dis question no difficult na?

ekoibile:
Oga Mufu, that money no small at all at all! This is a secret majority of the builders in Naija are not ready to tell you. Me i no dey burst anybody oh, i'm only saying things the way i see them. But recall before the case study abracadabra, him wan build 2 rooms and inbuilt toilelt Bungalows for N1m in Enugu, for even less. [url]https://www.nairaland.com/972231/cost-conditions-building-these-types/2 [/url]. That's why i insist that this "case study" syndrome is disingenuous. Don't ban me yet oh.

ekoibile:
Oloye, this your simple and humble question has stood long unanswered, and don't ask me why oh
From my calculation, this house is only 12feet by 33.9 feet, that is a total built area of 407 Sq;Feet.
With due respect to the Oga wey him get this house, it is a very small house and the cost of moving into it shouldn't be more than between 6,158 and 7,391 US dollars. N1.2 million naira at the most. Cost of land apart. This is possible in the South west here.
Sir, with this amount of money at your disposal and with an honest man at the other end (not the case study people oh), you and your madam can make it your petit Naija vacation home. A mini swimming pool to match would not be bad, at least until the need for a bigger something arises. Na so i see am oh, dis question no difficult na?

mufutau55:

BAN you ke? Why Ban you! We are all here for discussions... We are all entitled to our opinions here because we should be adults.. and even small pickins who respect himself/herself can join the discussions. So we will discuss as an adult... and NO BANNING THREATS.

But I am sure Oga Spyder will elaborate on this later.. I know the N1.2m is not a small money at all.. I just meant for building that type of house, it may not be enough. Let's wait and hear from our Oga Spyder.

Hajji M.

esoorita:
Ekoibile, I don't know how you arrived at 1.2 Million Naira to build this type of house. I guessed you left Nigeria long time ago hence you've lost track of the cost of things. 1.2 Million Naira will not buy you a 12 year old banger car in Nigeria of today not to talk of building a house. In any case, if the cost of building a one bedroom house is 1.2 Million Naira, every piece of land in Nigeria would have been built up by now.

NL1960: A building depends on the level of finishing you want for it. Have people ever asked how farmers in the village who sometimes do not make up to 100k net per year from their farm work end up building a house that they live in. My people say that 'a building is just 4 walls and a roof' meaning that after the walls are up and it is roofed, whatever goes into depends on the person. N1.2m is a lot of money for village folks. My brother's friend just finished moulding 50 bags of cement in preparation for starting a bungalow. he did not buy sand. He just got some boys together who went about fetching erosion sand for him from the roadside for little amount. He will pay village labour rate too for the work.

esoorita:
Ekoibile, I don't know how you arrived at 1.2 Million Naira to build this type of house. I guessed you left Nigeria long time ago hence you've lost track of the cost of things. 1.2 Million Naira will not buy you a 12 year old banger car in Nigeria of today not to talk of building a house. In any case, if the cost of building a one bedroom house is 1.2 Million Naira, every piece of land in Nigeria would have been built up by now.

2sExy1: lol... but I don't understand what you mean by the emboldened. how many rooms would the said/proposed bungalow contain and is the 1.2 million the budgeted amount for this project? waiting...

vivienbabe:
What NL1960 meant is that the man has moulded blocks worth 50 bags of cement. 50 bags of cement can mould 2000 very solid blocks, well enough to finish off a big 3 bedroom bungalow. I'm currently doing something like that and i've already gotten 3000 blocks.

Look, my brother, part of successfully rounding off a house of any size depends largely on your body language to the men on the ground. If you present yourself to them as one of them, they'll treat you as such and you'll know more. But if you come as a 'big boy or big girl", they will treat you accordingly. My hand bag is tightly tucked in my armpit and we melt up together. Nuff said.

vivienbabe:
What NL1960 meant is that the man has moulded blocks worth 50 bags of cement. 50 bags of cement can mould 2000 very solid blocks, well enough to finish off a big 3 bedroom bungalow. I'm currently doing something like that and i've already gotten 3000 blocks.

Look, my brother, part of successfully rounding off a house of any size depends largely on your body language to the men on the ground. If you present yourself to them as one of them, they'll treat you as such and you'll know more. But if you come as a 'big boy or big girl", they will treat you accordingly. My hand bag is tightly tucked in my armpit and we melt up together. Nuff said.

2sExy1: foundation cost alone may have eaten almost half of that.

vivienbabe:
What NL1960 meant is that the man has moulded blocks worth 50 bags of cement. 50 bags of cement can mould 2000 very solid blocks, well enough to finish off a big 3 bedroom bungalow. I'm currently doing something like that and i've already gotten 3000 blocks.

Look, my brother, part of successfully rounding off a house of any size depends largely on your body language to the men on the ground. If you present yourself to them as one of them, they'll treat you as such and you'll know more. But if you come as a 'big boy or big girl", they will treat you accordingly. My hand bag is tightly tucked in my armpit and we melt up together. Nuff said.

NL1960:

Quite true. I called a furniture person to come and give me a quote for wardrobes for my village house project and the guy came and quoted N220k per wardrobe giving a cost of N880k for 4 wardrobes. When i asked him why so expensive, he said that the wardrobe will be MDF and have shoe rack, tie rack and all sorts of racks. I just told him that i had only 2 pairs of shoes (one pair of sandals and one pair of shoes) and so what do i need a shoe rack for?. Na so i almost take cutlass pursue am comot.

NL1960:

Quite true. I called a furniture person to come and give me a quote for wardrobes for my village house project and the guy came and quoted N220k per wardrobe giving a cost of N880k for 4 wardrobes. When i asked him why so expensive, he said that the wardrobe will be MDF and have shoe rack, tie rack and all sorts of racks. I just told him that i had only 2 pairs of shoes (one pair of sandals and one pair of shoes) and so what do i need a shoe rack for?. Na so i almost take cutlass pursue am comot.

NL1960:

Quite true. I called a furniture person to come and give me a quote for wardrobes for my village house project and the guy came and quoted N220k per wardrobe giving a cost of N880k for 4 wardrobes. When i asked him why so expensive, he said that the wardrobe will be MDF and have shoe rack, tie rack and all sorts of racks. I just told him that i had only 2 pairs of shoes (one pair of sandals and one pair of shoes) and so what do i need a shoe rack for?. Na so i almost take cutlass pursue am comot.

NL1960:

Thank you my sister. Before i started my project, i did a deep study to know how the farmers in my village who do not make much money were able to build their houses. As i said finishing chops money and these farmers are not crazy about finishing. As i also mentioned in my post, they will not buy stand in tipper. Boys in the village will give them any quantity of erosion sand that they want. They will not buy wood from sawmill. They will just call a wood man to come and bring down a tree causing problems on their farmlands and they will use the wood. They try as much as possible to eliminate middle men.

Just to give an example of what i did of recent to mount my water tank. I was told to buy granite and after pasting the question here on property forum, Hajji and Spyder said that gravel is enough for the job. Iam now using gravel but i did not buy a tipper load of gravel. My brother just got some boys who went to our village gravel dump and within a few hours they had brought the required number of wheel barrows for just a pittance. Mmeanwhile, i was being told to cough out 20k for the granite. That 20k is what iam currently using for the entire job (transportation of the 19ft tank stand, gravel, cement, blinding, iron, labour etc) and change go still remain.

NL1960:
Just to give an example of what i did of recent to mount my water tank. I was told to buy granite and after pasting the question here on property forum, Hajji and Spyder said that gravel is enough for the job. Iam now using gravel but i did not buy a tipper load of gravel. My brother just got some boys who went to our village gravel dump and within a few hours they had brought the required number of wheel barrows for just a pittance. Mmeanwhile, i was being told to cough out 20k for the granite. That 20k is what iam currently using for the entire job (transportation of the 19ft tank stand, gravel, cement, blinding, iron, labour etc) and change go still remain.

spyder880: I wish I could join the discussion, but no time. Have to buy cement and start plastering this house today.

mufutau55:

Oga Spyder, the black color don't look bad at all...

Hajji M.

mufutau55:

And see, they could not tell you that Gravels is not enough to erect the stand as opposed to Granite. We all collect and share knowledge on this forum. Imagine if you did not acquire that knowledge to tell them, NO, use only gravels... (they probably wondered where you learnt that) that hard earned N20K will go to useless route...

Hajji M.

kopell: @All this house building business no bi joke Ooo, especially people wey dey far away from Naija. We thank God and all the professional in the house, way take time to show and explain to many of us how thing being done here. I can't imagine how many of us that have lost money and will continue to losing money to family members and dubious contractor. If not for these guys. We most appreciate these guy Oooooo, my brothers.