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Re: Building from the Diaspora: 3 Bedroom Bungalow + Penthouse (2 Rooms) at Calabar by princejones(m): 10:45pm On Sep 18, 2015 |
Welldone sir,remember me oh and am based in south south,Nigeria |
Re: Building from the Diaspora: 3 Bedroom Bungalow + Penthouse (2 Rooms) at Calabar by KolaShangOne(m): 11:58pm On Sep 18, 2015 |
Mehn.. I think people building In Oyo, Osun, Ibadan, Ogun and Ondo state are very lucky. We can cut that list your Engineer gave you by at least 30-40%. Blocks- 140 Granite 30t - 85,000 Sand 20t- 26,000 16mm - 2050 12mm - 1200 10mm - 950 Formwork planks 1 x 12 plank - 700 1x9 plank - 600 2 x 2 - 200 Nail-5000 Bamboo- 200. @Londoncool I know the East do not have sharpsand and rocks (just clay soil) maybe thats why blocks and granite are expensive there. The rainforest there too doesn't produce the kind of wood for roofing too.. Its a pity 3 Likes |
Re: Building from the Diaspora: 3 Bedroom Bungalow + Penthouse (2 Rooms) at Calabar by LondonCool(m): 12:09am On Sep 19, 2015 |
erico2k2: I have just been advised that in practice they normally load 25 tonnes (and not the full 30 tonnes)in order to maintain the truck. |
Re: Building from the Diaspora: 3 Bedroom Bungalow + Penthouse (2 Rooms) at Calabar by LondonCool(m): 12:38am On Sep 19, 2015 |
Dieumerci: Would you really get 32 blocks (9 inches) from one bag of cement? I thought the rule of thumb was around 22-24 blocks for 9 inches? |
Re: Building from the Diaspora: 3 Bedroom Bungalow + Penthouse (2 Rooms) at Calabar by LondonCool(m): 12:48am On Sep 19, 2015 |
KolaShangOne: @KolaShangOne The price difference in building materials between East and West is very high. |
Re: Building from the Diaspora: 3 Bedroom Bungalow + Penthouse (2 Rooms) at Calabar by gtrust: 1:24am On Sep 19, 2015 |
LondonCool: Beautiful house!!! Just an observation: why roof the bungalow when you can deck and use that space as balcony for your pent-house 1 Like |
Re: Building from the Diaspora: 3 Bedroom Bungalow + Penthouse (2 Rooms) at Calabar by gtrust: 1:34am On Sep 19, 2015 |
Actually, this can be an advantage. You just invert your house! Meaning, you excavate a bit more to fit in your "pent-house", put a retaining wall and deck. Violà, you now build the bungalow!! When you look at your house from one side, it's a one storey building and from another side it's just a bungalow. LondonCool: |
Re: Building from the Diaspora: 3 Bedroom Bungalow + Penthouse (2 Rooms) at Calabar by Dieumerci(m): 3:25am On Sep 19, 2015 |
LondonCool:Sir, with 42.5 grade cement and a good quality sharp sand, you'll get very solid 32 blocks from one bag of cement. Trust me. |
Re: Building from the Diaspora: 3 Bedroom Bungalow + Penthouse (2 Rooms) at Calabar by micgray100(m): 7:36am On Sep 19, 2015 |
Happy to see the building carcass on-going... Happy u finally decide to include the pent house as advised..... I discovered you didn't use DPM in your foundation. Let me know your reason... Thanks... Engr. A.L Onakomaya.... |
Re: Building from the Diaspora: 3 Bedroom Bungalow + Penthouse (2 Rooms) at Calabar by LondonCool(m): 8:53am On Sep 19, 2015 |
micgray100: Greetings! DPM was applied to the DPC while preparing the German flooring. We used polyethylene sheets and laid them across before concrete was applied. |
Re: Building from the Diaspora: 3 Bedroom Bungalow + Penthouse (2 Rooms) at Calabar by LondonCool(m): 9:11am On Sep 19, 2015 |
gtrust: Thanks for your observation. One of the rooms upstairs already has a balcony. Another balcony can be created and extended for the second room without necessarily decking more foot space. I get your practical solution. The columns and pillars around the foundation were designed to carry the load of a storey building ( if necessary). The issue for me is that if I keep on shifting the conceptual goalpost by extending the decking I might as well deck the whole roof and convert it to a Duplex. However, I'll have a word with the Structural Engineer about the feasibility of extending the decking to accommodate a large balcony. I was even toying with the idea of having a another floor on top of the penthouse for a proper 'penthouse'. The Engineer approved it but my wife kicked against it as we are getting older (i.e. reality of climbing staircases at an advanced age). 2 Likes |
Re: Building from the Diaspora: 3 Bedroom Bungalow + Penthouse (2 Rooms) at Calabar by LondonCool(m): 9:14am On Sep 19, 2015 |
Dieumerci: That's very interesting Dieumerci. I'll speak to my brother in charge of the masons about it. |
Re: Building from the Diaspora: 3 Bedroom Bungalow + Penthouse (2 Rooms) at Calabar by gtrust: 12:26pm On Sep 19, 2015 |
LondonCool: If you already have the foundation for it (columns & pillars etc) then maybe an extended balcony would be cool!! Just imagine setting a nice canopy up there Anyway, financially: no need for all the woodwork for roofing and no roof. You "transfer" that budget to pay for the decking. Again, I'm just a dreamer and you're the owner (not forgetting your wife oh) |
Re: Building from the Diaspora: 3 Bedroom Bungalow + Penthouse (2 Rooms) at Calabar by clementcro(m): 12:50pm On Sep 19, 2015 |
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Re: Building from the Diaspora: 3 Bedroom Bungalow + Penthouse (2 Rooms) at Calabar by LondonCool(m): 9:12pm On Sep 20, 2015 |
clementcro: Where's your website? Seeing is believing. 1 Like |
Re: Building from the Diaspora: 3 Bedroom Bungalow + Penthouse (2 Rooms) at Calabar by feranmi7(m): 12:41pm On Sep 22, 2015 |
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Re: Building from the Diaspora: 3 Bedroom Bungalow + Penthouse (2 Rooms) at Calabar by LondonCool(m): 4:22pm On Sep 27, 2015 |
Finalising work on the German flooring
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Re: Building from the Diaspora: 3 Bedroom Bungalow + Penthouse (2 Rooms) at Calabar by LondonCool(m): 4:25pm On Sep 27, 2015 |
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Re: Building from the Diaspora: 3 Bedroom Bungalow + Penthouse (2 Rooms) at Calabar by micgray100(m): 10:35pm On Sep 27, 2015 |
LondonCool: LondonCool, guess I dint see the DPM clearly in the pics you uploaded earlier... Now seeing clearly in your new pics.. Guess it becos of it's black colour. We used to the blue colour DPM here in the north.. Good to see the work is on-going as planned.. May God give more strength to achive completion |
Re: Building from the Diaspora: 3 Bedroom Bungalow + Penthouse (2 Rooms) at Calabar by LondonCool(m): 8:58pm On Oct 03, 2015 |
Concluded work on the German flooring today.
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Re: Building from the Diaspora: 3 Bedroom Bungalow + Penthouse (2 Rooms) at Calabar by LondonCool(m): 9:01pm On Oct 03, 2015 |
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Re: Building from the Diaspora: 3 Bedroom Bungalow + Penthouse (2 Rooms) at Calabar by LondonCool(m): 9:06pm On Oct 03, 2015 |
As the rainy season starts to depart I'll start stacking up blocks (5,300) for the next stage (lintel/decking). By next month I should be able to save money and place orders for the building materials, as I'm building from my salary (no bank loan yet).
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Re: Building from the Diaspora: 3 Bedroom Bungalow + Penthouse (2 Rooms) at Calabar by Nobody: 1:45pm On Oct 04, 2015 |
LondonCool: What happened in 1993? 1 Like |
Re: Building from the Diaspora: 3 Bedroom Bungalow + Penthouse (2 Rooms) at Calabar by Nobody: 2:07pm On Oct 04, 2015 |
LondonCool: I remembered this your "lesson learnt" two weeks ago in Ibadan on my site. Even though it's only 6 courses here it will consume about 100 to 150 tons (depends on who is giving the estimate) in laterite. But it's only money and we can't take it with us. 1 Share
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Re: Building from the Diaspora: 3 Bedroom Bungalow + Penthouse (2 Rooms) at Calabar by Nobody: 2:45pm On Oct 04, 2015 |
KolaShangOne: We are truly blessed and I even beat these your prices handily. Maybe prices shifted between when you posted and the time I purchased because as an award winning conglomerate you should be getting retail pricing. |
Re: Building from the Diaspora: 3 Bedroom Bungalow + Penthouse (2 Rooms) at Calabar by KolaShangOne(m): 7:25pm On Oct 04, 2015 |
EgunMogaji: Conglomerate for where? Those prices are worst case scenarios.. The pricing was just to underline the huge gap between here and there.. 1 Like |
Re: Building from the Diaspora: 3 Bedroom Bungalow + Penthouse (2 Rooms) at Calabar by omooba969(m): 9:30pm On Oct 04, 2015 |
@Op, Good structure you are putting up there, please can you throw more light on the expenses from excavation of foundation to DPC, including labour? Thanks sir. |
Re: Building from the Diaspora: 3 Bedroom Bungalow + Penthouse (2 Rooms) at Calabar by LondonCool(m): 10:31pm On Oct 05, 2015 |
EgunMogaji: @EgunMogaji, Good question. I was deliberately waiting for someone to ask me this. Well, once upon a time in 1993 Ete Bassey who had spent 30 years in the UK decided that it was time for him to retire back in Nigeria. Before relocating he in his infinite wisdom decided to build a retirement home for himself in Calabar. Ete Bassey took his life savings and pension and sent it to relatives to help him to build his house. This remittance of funds was over a 2 year period. In between that time Ete Bassey had been receiving glowing updates about the progress of his building and was even sent pictures by post ( this was before the advent of the Internet). This trend of receiving updates continued until Ete Bassey had to travel home to Calabar at short notice to attend a funeral. Ete Bassey landed at Calabar Airport in the evening and asked the cab driver to take him straight to his 'partially completed' residence at the Parliamentary Village axis (this was before the advent of mobile phone, so he didn't have the chance to phone his homies in advance of visiting). To God be the glory, when Ete Bassey arrived at his destination at night time he could only see a gated fence, and a partial view of stacked blocks ( he must have thought they were left overs). Ete Bassey rattled the gate and asked for someone to come around to open it. No dice. Ete Bassey rattled the gate again. Silence. Silence pressurised the transmission of good breeding. The curious case of the impatient cab driver. The cabby was suddenly getting impatient and wanted to drop Ete Bassey's luggage and put his headlights on full beam in front of the gate. He then asked Ete Ba if he was sure of the address to which Ete Ba responded in the affirmative (after taking some steps back to check the neighbouring/adjourning properties for confirmation of the family land). In the full glare of the cabby's fully beamed headlights both Ete Ba and the cab driver observed and gradually realised that there wasn't any real structure standing inside the gated plot. Ete Ba who was already on blood pressure medication had a mild faint and asked to be taken to his main family house where the funeral preparations were taken place that night. Everyone was surprised to see Ete Ba ( as they weren't sure he would be travelling for the funeral ). Ete Ba demanded to see his younger brother and cousins who were handling his building project for a confirmation of the location of the property ( they never realised that Ete Ba had been there already). They told Ete Ba that there were some logistic issues they faced ( basically they misappropriated the funds) and that the house would be ready by the following year when he stated he would be finally relocating. Ete Ba chuckled to himself and said 'so what happened in 1976 is now happening to me now'. Something mysterious happened. Ete Ba slumped in Calabar and woke up in London ( according to the storyline that was passed on to me) after 3 days of unconsciousness. Thank God for private health care insurance. Ete Ba's British kids arranged for him to be flown back to UK under special medical arrangements. I heard this story in 2000 as part of my induction when I relocated to the UK. Ete Ba spent the rest of his days in the UK a miserable man. He had to transfer from his private apartment to the Old Peoples Residential home due to his mental state. Ete Ba died a sad man. He never fulfilled his dream of building and living in his own property in Nigeria. I'm not sure if his grown up kids have taken possession of the building or even travelled to Nigeria. Well from the 1993 experience, we all learnt that whenever we are building from abroad we need to physically visit the place and build in stages every time we visit, even if it takes us 10 years to complete. I expect someone to ask me what happened in 1976. 12 Likes |
Re: Building from the Diaspora: 3 Bedroom Bungalow + Penthouse (2 Rooms) at Calabar by LondonCool(m): 10:41pm On Oct 05, 2015 |
EgunMogaji: Wow, that's a lot of laterite to fill up. Do you have a local laterite pit around your vicinity for cheap supplies? |
Re: Building from the Diaspora: 3 Bedroom Bungalow + Penthouse (2 Rooms) at Calabar by Nobody: 10:48pm On Oct 05, 2015 |
LondonCool: An interesting predicament that has occurred all over Nigeria. While I have reserved myself to locking my gate when leaving but I have devices a plan to continue building in my absence. This plan is working well so far. In fact I was surprised when I learnt that I had 4 bags of cement left over on a project that I had done in my absence. I think this only occurred due to the scheme that I have in place as the cement would have disappeared otherwise. The advent on internet, cellphones, easier bank payments, EFCC, etc have slowed down fraudsters. IMHO. 2 Likes |
Re: Building from the Diaspora: 3 Bedroom Bungalow + Penthouse (2 Rooms) at Calabar by Nobody: 10:49pm On Oct 05, 2015 |
LondonCool: I am working on that angle. So far I have found laterite at N700 per tonne delivered. Over here it would be free and even delivered for free in most cases |
Re: Building from the Diaspora: 3 Bedroom Bungalow + Penthouse (2 Rooms) at Calabar by mufutau55(m): 2:23am On Oct 06, 2015 |
LondonCool: On my side... there is no need for the 1976 story... because I was 80% "Ete Bassey"... except I was not sick or dead; this was long time ago. I had no opportunity to come home and monitor my project because I was on a student visa, and once you leave, you are not coming back. So my family are the next option... we are talking about mid 70s, there was no communication except letter (postal) delivery was still good. Sending money then you have to send it thru people or those coming to USA for trading.. that was during the time called "Arrangee", if you are caught with more than "Basic Travel Allowance", you will end up in Bar Beach for firing-squad. Many old-timers will remember this time. Long story short all photos of housing project sent to me was fake.. no house no hard earned money. I even thought of importing gun to Naija then concealed in an auto tyres so I can come and shoot those who duped, but I later changed my mind... but I surely learnt my lesson in a big way. Your family are your worst enemy sometimes when it comes to finances or building projects, especially if you are overseas... Hajji M. 7 Likes |
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