EgunMogaji:


Thank you, Sir.

I'm trying to slow down because I'm not really ready for home but I need to roof the main house. Those quotes are making me weak in the knees

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Wiring! Wiring!! Wiring!!!

Plumbing is bigger in size, heavy, difficult to move and cannot be easily sold

Wiring is smaller in size, more expensive per unit size/weight, you need a lot of it, can be easily moved and if you are stubborn like me and decide to even "put marks" on your cables, it can be stripped and you wont even recognise it if placed in front of you and the internal copper can be melted (and re-used) to completely disguise it!

Take the advice as given earlier: Buy your wire NOW and store it where it is safe (where you live now or with trusted people in occupied residence)
Dont do any wiring until you have put-in Iron Doors on ALL External Exits!
Having a "high" Fence and a Gate is a further deterrence, especially in secluded areas.

Finally, wiring would cost you more to replace, as the price keeps rising on a weekly basis, at a faster pace compared to Toilet fittings.





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Wiring! Wiring!! Wiring!!!

Plumbing is bigger in size, heavy, difficult to move and cannot be easily sold

Wiring is smaller in size, more expensive per unit size/weight, you need a lot of it, can be easily moved and if you are stubborn like me and decide to even "put marks" on your cables, it can be stripped and you wont even recognise it if placed in front of you and the internal copper can be melted (and re-used) to completely disguise it!

Take the advice as given earlier: Buy your wire NOW and store it where it is safe (where you live now or with trusted people in occupied residence)
Dont do any wiring until you have put-in Iron Doors on ALL External Exits!
Having a "high" Fence and a Gate is a further deterrence, especially in secluded areas.

Finally, wiring would cost you more to replace, as the price keeps rising on a weekly basis, at a faster pace compared to Toilet fittings.





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Empiree:
^^

Lucky you. But i dont understand what you meant by "I was so angry because this could have been prevented if the gate and little space in the fence left opened for months."

You mean the gate was left opened for months?. How is that?. Arent you supposed to lock it or you are not currently in nija?

FastShipping:


When we did the fence and gate, there was a space of about 8 feet left opened beside the gate to enable easy passing on temporary basis. I expected the little space to be sealed within two weeks after the completion of the fence and gate. The contractor is a nairalander too. I warned him about that little space because I paid for it to be completely closed but he ignored my warnings for months. To my surprise, the contractor never did anything to the space beside the gate. It was through that space the thieves gained entry into the property and pulled cables out of the wall. There were other things stolen too and not only cables.

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You made my day!

For every Contractor that thinks he can play smart with other people's "sweat", putting them behind bars is the bottom line and there is no better way to do it than to first get the Police authorities involved (even if you will still take laws into your own hand later but that covers all the "basics". )

Is he a "recommended" Nairaland Contractor? Does he have a trail of such behaviour?
Please be more circumspect with these nairaland Contractors, better to be duped by someone you negotiated yourself than by some "packaged" Nairaland Contractor

We need to pay more attention to these things as we are discussing them here..... if possible, let us spend money on securing expensive materials first, fence the land and gate it (especially if secluded) but the bottom line is "never give the thief something that would interest him or worth his effort".
keep all "expensive and handy" valuables out of "site" ... sorry, l mean "sight"!



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On the other hand, would you consider giving your jobs to one or two Contractors here to "contract out directly" (so they can supervise and ensure delivery when you are indisposed)? it will cost you their supervision fees but it will save you some grief because l think some are just waiting to prey on those who build from abroad.

diordaves:
Two Chambers Sceptic Tank leading to a Soakaway system

A septic tank receives all of the wastewater from the house, including toilet, laundry, bathroom and kitchen waste. The main purpose of a septic tank is to separate the solid material and allow the sludge formed to undergo a process known as anaerobic digestion. This has the effect of reducing the sludge volume and therefore the frequency of septic tank emptying by vacuum tanker.

The effluent from a septic tank is disposed of to a soakaway. This should not be allowed to be discharge to a ditch or stream. Such a discharge is a public health risk as done in Nigeria.

The components of a septic tank soakaway system are the septic tank, which in traditionally built systems can be one or two chambers, and the underground soakaway network.

Anaerobic digestion takes place within the septic tank whereby anaerobic micro-organisms develop and partially degrade the receiving wastewater. Within the septic tank solids settle to the floor of the tank and materials such as tissue float to the top of the liquids and form a scum layer.

Within traditionally built tanks there are normally ‘T’ pipes located on the inlet and outlet. The purpose of ‘T’ pipes is to prevent floating material and settled solids from passing through the septic tank and into the soakaway network. Please see photos below.

diordaves:
Building a Two Chambers Sceptic Tank and Soakaway pit: the right approach

This was executed in Delta State. We firstly depict the architectural plan drawing which was modified; so the Soakaway include instead of perforated walls as done in Nigeria, I included a soak pit of about 3 meters filled with granite at the bottom of Soakaway. You will also notice the plumbing work to treat the waste in the sceptic tank before transmission to the second chambers and then finally to the Soakaway. The end result is that the sludge is left behind and the waste water treated by the bacteria before being soaked away for further treatment by the soil.

FastShipping:


My contractor seems okay. My problem with him is being slow for my liking

No one recommended my contractor to me. I was just looking for an architect/contractor and had to interview three and I decided to go with this particular one. Normally I don't keep contractors around me when they continue to make flagrant actions. I just decided to stick with this contractor to the end. I wouldn't mind recommending him to anyone because I know he can get the job done but mistakes are bound to happen and he has made few. No one is above mistake. The few nairalanders that worked for me in the past were fired because they always think they know better than me in what I want in a house and ended up doing sh1t that I didn't approve of.

3strikes:

who is the constituted Authority in this case?..........I don tell mine...I dont do court but they will comot with begging sef

Empiree:
I would prefer cutlass and hoe bcus my compound is bushy every 3 months. Make them cut cut and cut until we reach

FastShipping:

I have been a victim of stealing of wires at my site with most recent being last month. Wires were pulled out of the wall on a weekend. I was so angry because this could have been prevented if the gate and little space in the fence were not left opened for months. Complete cabling for 11 AC Units were pulled out of the wall. Wires/cables are not cheap at the moment. I had to cough out 550,000 Naira to buy some wires and store in a safe place till we start the wiring again.

In another news, I had to get police involved on one hopeless lying nairaland window fabricator. I paid this nairalander 70% of 1.9 million Naira to make EBM windows for me since first week of November and promised to deliver by Novemeber 27 or so. Since then, this man took 1.2 Million Naira deposit and has been dribbling us since November. I got police involved and they harassed him and asked him to sign undertaken to deliver within two weeks. In fact, they sent me video of the nairalander while he was in police gulag.

This house could have been completed if this nairalander had respected the agreement to deliver my windows by end of November. Now we put everything on hold because we cannot continue to work without windows.


Police are your friends. If anybody defrauds you, report to the police and they act if you have a case.

diordaves:
More Deckingand Sceptic Tank sizes guide
There are two sceptic tanks: One at the back of the building and one at the front. They were both built to take parked cars. The measurement for both are same: 20ft long, 9ft deep and 5ft wide at a cost of 700k that is 350k for one.

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Nice and informative.

Two Questions:

1.) What is the function of the BAFFLE?

In your last picture (where you have the Sludge in both sides of the Chambers), how did the Sludge get into the second chamber, thinking that it is solid waste that is supposed to rest at the bottom of the first Chamber?

Finally, most people have decided not to mix the Kitchen Sink water and bath water with the toilet water (Both dont go into the same Chamber/Septic tank) so that the Toilet Chamber does not get filled-up with liquid in no time while the Water from the Bath and Kitchen are "filtered" in a Man-Hole first, before being discharged "honourably" into the main Gutter as "pure-water"!

Thanks for sharing.



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EgunMogaji:


Aren't you still flowing out to the leach field?

diordaves:


I didn't adopt the leach field approach due to land constraints and fear of my foundation hence the "soak pit" approach.

FastShipping:


When we did the fence and gate, there was a space of about 8 feet left opened beside the gate to enable easy passing on temporary basis. I expected the little space to be sealed within two weeks after the completion of the fence and gate. The contractor is a nairalander too. I warned him about that little space because I paid for it to be completely closed but he ignored my warnings for months. To my surprise, the contractor never did anything to the space beside the gate. It was through that space the thieves gained entry into the property and pulled cables out of the wall. There were other things stolen too and not only cables.

mufutau55:


ROTFL! My kind of security... Ogun Orokin Special ni o.

Hajji M.