The beginning of demolition works

I bought this uncompleted 2 three bedroom on a full plot of land. I am an amateur in building but ive learnt a lot from spyder, brabus and co. I want to do it myself with an experienced bricklayer. I will be bringing engineers at critical stages. I want to restructure it to a hospital with a two bed duplex in situ as the doctors residence. D purpose of this thread is to put what i learnt so far on this thread to practise and to update professionals in the house so that they can checkmate us when we make mistakes. It is also meant to teach other amateurs like myself how to do it yourself

I bought the property with ten million naira net. It is an old structure built in the 90s. The building plan was a four flat but funny enough it has no columns despite the fact that they have placed two couch on d lintel awaiting decking. I must confess the blocks were so strong and i learnt that in the 80's, once they use strong blocks they wont put columns and still deck. The lintels are so weak and trees were growing from the german floor causing a weakening of part of the walls

Early pix

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The new plan for the ist floor

Approach view

Right side view

First floor plan

You may want to ask...why do it yourself? Why not contract it out to brabus since we are both in lagos? Firstly, finance. I am a young man in my early 30's who started d hospital less than 3yrs ago. That i can get 10million to buy a ppty within that short period of running d business which i started with a loan of 800k late 2010 shows God's grace and my prudence. So i want to carry that prudence to building without jeopardising safety and quality. Secondly i dont av too much moni left in my accnt so i want to be building from daily sales and i av a mmaximum 6mnth cos my landlord has given me a quit notice already. So even if i want i dnt av moni to contract it out

Our schedule of work is in phases. The first phase involve demolition of walls and breaking of all the lintels, creation of new walls, doors and windows, introduction of pillars and finally returning the structure back to lintel level

Demoliton in progress

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You may be wondering how did i know which walls to pull down. My architect already marked down the walls using the old building plan. My bricklayer too is very knowledgeable.

We saved over 600 blocks from d demolition and the blocks are so strong

Digging of the new wall foundation commence

Digging continues

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Give us the Mechanical and Electrical services installation for this project. A trial will convince you. U can also go through my thread also. My number is 08033643191 or e-mail: atope23@live.co.uk

Where is this property

Ceejayo: Where is this property

Alimosho area of lagos state

20 tons of granite and sharp sound

2by3 for pillars, 4500litres of tank and blocks

Casting of short pillars

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Pillars

The german floor of this room was weakend by a tree that burrowed it and was done all over again

Packing out the debris in preparation for laying of new walls

Creating new walls

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