odicity:
Stages involved in Building a house

Most people that are nursing the dream of erecting a building structure are often curious about the stages involved in building their dream home. We want to give an overview of those stages

1.Seek advice from your Architect/Engineering on what type and size of land the can suit your dream house

2.look for a land speculator or agent, that will help you in getting the land that can soothes your purpose. make sure you see the land and get all necessary original document related to land before payment. you can arrange with a lawyer to help you in preparing and checking the documents to make sure you are not buying a land from the wrong person,and to avoid land with dispute.

3. You need meet with your local town planning authority in your area to make sure that land is meant for the purpose you have in mind and they can give first hand information about development pattern in that area.Land under Government acquisition will be found through this process.

4.you need to arrange with a Land surveyor to establish and draw out the site boundary, the surveyor will also put the position beacons on the boundaries.

5.The drawings of the land surveyor will be used to produce at befitting building plan for you, a set of plans building plan usually three will have to be used to seek for building plan approval.

6.Clear the site manually or mechanically(bulldozer)

7. You can now move to site, for about 2-3 bedroom bungalow at starting, get two trips of sand and a trip of gravel,

8. locate a secured place where you can keep your bags of cement

9. Acquire a tank or drum where water can always be stored for use.

10. Buy about 1000 blocks for a starter. you can choose from five,six and nine inches block as required or suggested by your builder.

11. Setting out time, in some case bricklayers uses blocks to set out a foundation most especially when it is a small building and the ground is level, The Builder can collaborate with bricklayer to do this in a some complex plan. They will have to buy woods, ropes, nails and you have to pay for the services or based on contract or as agreed.

12. After the setting out have be done foundation excavation commences, after excavation concrete is poured on the foundation and leveled. the leveling is done by a mason to ensure uniformity of foundation

13. Block laying begins. Blocks are laid by the bricklayers on the concrete to about three or more courses (Coaches) as required, this serving as the d.p.c level. It is then filled with red sand and rammed (compacted or made hard). an over-site concrete or (German floor) is poured round to cover the d.p.c (in waterlogged, sloppy or sandy area you may need to apply reinforcements or Iron at the edges of building and nylon-like membrane is used to cover some site especially when there is a threat of water problems).

14. At this stage blocks are laid to window base, four courses(coaches) or layers after marking out the doors, then after the four coaches(courses) you mark out the windows and go another five coaches(courses), the entire opening in the house is now ready for concrete lintel.

15. At this stage Iron benders or welders are involved, they will have to make their estimate the carpenter and the bricklayers are all going to work here the welder is responsible for cutting and bringing in the Iron, the carpenter makes the frame or form work to contain the concrete.The bricklayer with laborers pours(casts) into the boxes(form work) which are properly filled with concrete.

16. At least two or more layers of blocks are laid on the lintel after this the building is ready for roofing.

17. At this stage carpenters are contacted, the timber or steel in the case of larger projects are estimated and cost. Roofing material could be chosen from aluminum, asbestos, plastics, galvanized zinc.

18. The electrification and plumbering works can begin. You can now contact your electrician and plumber. you can ceiling simultaneously or after electrification. Your soak-away pig can now be Dug and connection of pipe services will be handled by the plumber,

19. At this stage door frames, wardrobes by furniture maker, windows and other accessories can commence

20. Tillers or terrazzo contractors can be contacted if need be.The tilling and plastering works can go on simultaneously. two to three trips of plaster sand will be needed for plastering a moderate size.


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money121:
Another Successful Roofing Project @ Owo in Ondo State..
Please what are you waiting for.. Call/WhatsApp 080-85-310-359 For your Next Roofing Project

Steptiles Aluminum 0.55mm guage

Roof meters 388m
Cladding 99m
flat Sheet 76m

Total Amount Spent for the materials: 1,204,500

36STATES:


Terrible handwork. Go first to develop your skill. It looks really bad done. My honest assessment.

Teewhy2:
Knowing a process of building a house is different from knowing the technicalities behind the process. A lot of people make things mistake just because they want to safe money but at the long run they spent more.
I know of a building where by the owner claim to know the process but at the end of the day he didn't consider the road level, so after the area has a significant level of development most of the rain water from the street flows into the man's compound. The road is yet to be tarred but already the compound is already lower than the road.
Most people that rent the ground flats don't spend more than a year before leaving because water enters their apartment. He is planning to do major renovation now and it is like penny wise pound foolish.


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Flashmove:


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Oju4190:
Gudday.....My house is on roofing stage but because of financial contrain can i do the German floor without roofing. While dis decision is because I intend to take loan to roof d house so b4 den i want to b using my salary to do some work on the house so dat immediately i roof i will ensure dat i enter d house so dat paying back will not b too stressful for me..... Tanks

Horlardorjah:


off course, there is no harm in doing your floor without roof. go ahead Sir, what I presume might only happen is pple/goats defecating there depending on the environment your site is.

ATnTMartz:
I am just curious of stages of building too after Foundation (German floor type) is done. I mean the stages after the foundation to the roofing level. I received a quote from my builder and i need to veriy this with any experience builder in the house.

It is a 6 bedroom duplex on a 2plots of land in Ibadan.

can anyone help (before i post the numbers and detail my builder sent to me)

Horlardorjah:


drawings needed to quantify your project. you can mail me osunlanastephenp@yahoo.com

Horlardorjah:

the plan is needed before quantity of block can be calculated. so upload your drawing and get response asap

OMEGA009:
Hi. I’m a novice in building and I need a cost estimate for a 5 bedroom duplex with penthouse. Firstly from excavation to DPC. Building plan says estimated size of building is 167 sqm and d DPC level must be +450 (dunno what that means). It has 23 box pillars and 3 round pillars. Pls cost estimate must include quality material as I want to eliminate all forms of rising damp and penetrating damp. Thx a million.

money121:
Another Successful Roofing Project @ Owo in Ondo State..
Please what are you waiting for.. Call/WhatsApp 080-85-310-359 For your Next Roofing Project

Steptiles Aluminum 0.55mm guage

Roof meters 388m
Cladding 99m
flat Sheet 76m

Total Amount Spent for the materials: 1,204,500

Logistics:
For someone that has filed for c of o. How do I go about building approval?

joycluv:
What is the maximum courses of blocks to lay after lintel to have a high ceiling? Thanks

Asquare84:
Nice post

odicity:
Stages involved in Building a house

Most people that are nursing the dream of erecting a building structure are often curious about the stages involved in building their dream home. We want to give an overview of those stages

1.Seek advice from your Architect/Engineering on what type and size of land the can suit your dream house

2.look for a land speculator or agent, that will help you in getting the land that can soothes your purpose. make sure you see the land and get all necessary original document related to land before payment. you can arrange with a lawyer to help you in preparing and checking the documents to make sure you are not buying a land from the wrong person,and to avoid land with dispute.

3. You need meet with your local town planning authority in your area to make sure that land is meant for the purpose you have in mind and they can give first hand information about development pattern in that area.Land under Government acquisition will be found through this process.

4.you need to arrange with a Land surveyor to establish and draw out the site boundary, the surveyor will also put the position beacons on the boundaries.

5.The drawings of the land surveyor will be used to produce at befitting building plan for you, a set of plans building plan usually three will have to be used to seek for building plan approval.

6.Clear the site manually or mechanically(bulldozer)

7. You can now move to site, for about 2-3 bedroom bungalow at starting, get two trips of sand and a trip of gravel,

8. locate a secured place where you can keep your bags of cement

9. Acquire a tank or drum where water can always be stored for use.

10. Buy about 1000 blocks for a starter. you can choose from five,six and nine inches block as required or suggested by your builder.

11. Setting out time, in some case bricklayers uses blocks to set out a foundation most especially when it is a small building and the ground is level, The Builder can collaborate with bricklayer to do this in a some complex plan. They will have to buy woods, ropes, nails and you have to pay for the services or based on contract or as agreed.

12. After the setting out have be done foundation excavation commences, after excavation concrete is poured on the foundation and leveled. the leveling is done by a mason to ensure uniformity of foundation

13. Block laying begins. Blocks are laid by the bricklayers on the concrete to about three or more courses (Coaches) as required, this serving as the d.p.c level. It is then filled with red sand and rammed (compacted or made hard). an over-site concrete or (German floor) is poured round to cover the d.p.c (in waterlogged, sloppy or sandy area you may need to apply reinforcements or Iron at the edges of building and nylon-like membrane is used to cover some site especially when there is a threat of water problems).

14. At this stage blocks are laid to window base, four courses(coaches) or layers after marking out the doors, then after the four coaches(courses) you mark out the windows and go another five coaches(courses), the entire opening in the house is now ready for concrete lintel.

15. At this stage Iron benders or welders are involved, they will have to make their estimate the carpenter and the bricklayers are all going to work here the welder is responsible for cutting and bringing in the Iron, the carpenter makes the frame or form work to contain the concrete.The bricklayer with laborers pours(casts) into the boxes(form work) which are properly filled with concrete.

16. At least two or more layers of blocks are laid on the lintel after this the building is ready for roofing.

17. At this stage carpenters are contacted, the timber or steel in the case of larger projects are estimated and cost. Roofing material could be chosen from aluminum, asbestos, plastics, galvanized zinc.

18. The electrification and plumbering works can begin. You can now contact your electrician and plumber. you can ceiling simultaneously or after electrification. Your soak-away pig can now be Dug and connection of pipe services will be handled by the plumber,

19. At this stage door frames, wardrobes by furniture maker, windows and other accessories can commence

20. Tillers or terrazzo contractors can be contacted if need be.The tilling and plastering works can go on simultaneously. two to three trips of plaster sand will be needed for plastering a moderate size.


http://deljconsult.com/stages-involved-in-building-a-house/