EgunMogaji:


Dis one wey you wan pessin dash me 2X4 for head

It was a general consensus on that build by the builders contemporaries that it was a bad idea. But strictly for that build.

The truth of the matter is that you can have a strong 6 incher produced and a weak 9 incher.

So if you're going to pluck foundation blocks off of the shelf in Nigeria then imho you should go with 9 inchers.

I'm yet to see Spyder880, Aventures, Skimanski, KolaShangOne, etc use anything less than 9 inchers for foundation.

One of the profound should haves on my project was not using 9 inchers for my fence. IMHO Nigerian 6 inched are best reserved for partitions of upper walls. This is just my opinion and nothing scientific or building experience based.

EgunMogaji:


Dis one wey you wan pessin dash me 2X4 for head

It was a general consensus on that build by the builders contemporaries that it was a bad idea. But strictly for that build.

The truth of the matter is that you can have a strong 6 incher produced and a weak 9 incher.

So if you're going to pluck foundation blocks off of the shelf in Nigeria then imho you should go with 9 inchers.

I'm yet to see Spyder880, Aventures, Skimanski, KolaShangOne, etc use anything less than 9 inchers for foundation.

One of the profound should haves on my project was not using 9 inchers for my fence. IMHO Nigerian 6 inched are best reserved for partitions of upper walls. This is just my opinion and nothing scientific or building experience based.

abouzaid:
bros, abeg forget those people, he is hiding under religion just like yerima yet when a newspaper ran a news report on how he was banging a married woman on the double complete with their text messages and even called him and the lady in question to know their sides of the story before going to press, he could not come out to defend himself. soon after that, the lady's marriage crashed. he is atleast 32yrs older than that girl so you can imagine how that marriage would play out. i don't want to implicate myself online so let's leave that issue.

arabianights:




Hello, have you been to this thread and read sanusi's response?

https://www.nairaland.com/2632649/emir-sanusis-response-marriage-saadatu

Remember when we were attacked over our analysis on why he married that young lady? well he didnt deny it either but his response is rather arrogant,rude and i believe low for an Emir

abouzaid:
bros, abeg forget those people, he is hiding under religion just like yerima yet when a newspaper ran a news report on how he was banging a married woman on the double complete with their text messages and even called him and the lady in question to know their sides of the story before going to press, he could not come out to defend himself. soon after that, the lady's marriage crashed. he is atleast 32yrs older than that girl so you can imagine how that marriage would play out. i don't want to implicate myself online so let's leave that issue.

arabianights:




Hello, have you been to this thread and read sanusi's response?

https://www.nairaland.com/2632649/emir-sanusis-response-marriage-saadatu

Remember when we were attacked over our analysis on why he married that young lady? well he didnt deny it either but his response is rather arrogant,rude and i believe low for an Emir

arabianights:

you are right make i keep quiet

abouzaid:
what's your take on using 6" hollow blocks for foundation? what's your take on using 6"by 6" pillars for a bungalow?what's your take on foundation depth especially for Abuja and neighbouring states given the high clay content in their soils? I'll explain later. thanks in advance.

EgunMogaji:

Anyways my people e be say I go need like 150 tons of laterite (rough calculation), how much is the going rate?

Gracias.

brabus:


150tons? Na only granite you wan use build the house?

Let's agree 60 tons will go into your DPC cos it's a football pitch and 8inch thick. Where will the remaining 90 tons be used? Columns, Lintels, Roof and ...?

Just asking.

brabus:
My bad sir! It has been a while I heard that word "laterite".

However, 150 tons of laterite cannot fill that structure.

EgunMogaji:


More or less?

But most importantly "what is the going rate"?

Thanks.

EgunMogaji:
A question for the seasoned builders.

Can one build pillars all the way from blinding to final height (ring beam) at once on a bungalow?

Thanks.

brag3:
@HsLBroker.

Thanks for the detailed explanation. It really helps alot when we get such detailed info.

So from what you are saying. The difference in sizes is due to the greedy nature of the suppliers trying to sell less for more?

So how can one combat this? how can we avoid this issue?

brabus:


More. Going rate or cost? I have no idea.

You must have gotten some fillings from the septic tank.

KolaShangOne:


Going rate and cost are actually one and the same.
Egun wants to know how much 1 ton of laterite costs so that he can multiply it by 150..

@EgunMogaji contact @smiley001 for that. Sometimes one might be lucky to get excess to-be-evacuated materials from another site and you just pay for the dump truck.

KolaShangOne:


Going rate and cost are actually one and the same.

abouzaid:
what's your take on using 6" hollow blocks for foundation? what's your take on using 6"by 6" pillars for a bungalow?what's your take on foundation depth especially for Abuja and neighbouring states given the high clay content in their soils? I'll explain later. thanks in advance.

brabus:


You mean if you can actually build like this. Very possible!

Saving cost of Sandfilling. The ground floor is replaced with precast slabs which are placed on connected beams.

Seen it before.

mufutau55:


@abouzaid
@arabianights

Please don't discuss "Current Events" in this thread... this is building discussions.
Thanks.

Hajji M.

brabus:


You see! I'm not that smart anyway. I used to think going rate is per unit cost while the cost (actual) is final sum paid after negotiations. Like say, the going rate for a bag of cement is 1550 while the cost payable on 100 bags is 150,000.

abouzaid:
i haven't seen it done before, i believe it can be done but i won't advice it because i don't see anything to be gained from it.

abdulwastecx:


I think this is more expensive.
precast slab will be expensive
the formwork to the beam
the cost of beam reinforcement
workmanship etc.

Its cheaper to sand filled a bungalow on a relatively gentle ground

KolaShangOne:


Going rate and cost are actually one and the same.
Egun wants to know how much 1 ton of laterite costs so that he can multiply it by 150..

@EgunMogaji contact @smiley001 for that. Sometimes one might be lucky to get excess to-be-evacuated materials from another site and you just pay for the dump truck.

brabus:


More. Going rate or cost? I have no idea.

You must have gotten some fillings from the septic tank.

abdulwastecx:


i don't have any problem with using 6'' block for bungalow foundation or 150x150mm for column.

sections of members like column are governed by slenderness ratio of the column which is a function of height. sections of members are also governed by the intended load that the column will carry, It also depend on the brazed condition of columns.

For bungalows with closely spaced wall with longest distance not more than 4.5m c/c, 6" block can be used.
I normally use 6" block for building when my site/land is very small because the difference in cost between 6" & 9'' is not that great.

smiley001:



Thanks for d recommendation sir he had already contacted me yesterday. I didn't even know he's back to his base, only for me to see My Oga's Yankee number ringing me while I was even planning to go visit him in ibadan to collect my Yankee goodies (Unlucky me).

To be frank, I don't think 150tons will even fill up wot I'm seeing.

And dis is another thing customers don't know, laterite pit is different from quarry. laterite is being sold by d numbers of the tyres d truck has. Laterite pits do not have scale to weigh their materials.
So incase u order for 150tons and it didn't fill it up or it didn't meet up ur target. Wot d pit normally puts in d bucket for maybe 20tons dump truck is not always more Dan 16tons if we want to go buy d way of tonnage and there is even no scale to measure it.

D advice i will give is, he shld negotiate base on tyres (6tyres or 10tyres) as there is no Laterite pit dat sells per ton not to now talk of knowing d tonnage u r buying.

EgunMogaji:


Do you mind showing me a pic of one of your 6" block foundations?

EgunMogaji:



Oga abi you dey happy hour over there?

Not my tank but one across from me.