mufutau55:


Agreed with you... and all the Nancies and Johnnies go dey shout.

Hajji M.

Rubbiish:

I didn't even bother to read the rest...
Electrical 1m?
Fittings/piping 600k? For a 3bedroom bungalow??(how many WCs & showers)?
Oga let me see road...
Standard is subjective when it comes to cost
I am talking about what the average nigerian can afford.
I built a two bedroom bungalow by using electronic jacuzi for all my bath does not make it standard.

I will go through my archive & post the comprehensive cost analysis of the five bedroom.

Pls note i am not including fencing & other auxillary facilities like compound interlock & filling etc. Just the building...

galaxi:


You read through it, and deep inside you,you understand everything!
How much does wire cost?
What about the piping work
What about chandalin lights?
It's close to a 1m. Unless you do surface then with 300k you can achieve that.
My house have 4big toilets and a small visitors toilet and 2 single jacuzi at the cost of 180k each = 360k + piping 160k then other accesories.
Check the roof, it's metro tiles!
I understand you type and the kind of project you execute because a profesional will not argue like you. The are bungalors worth over 20m, it all depends on taste.
See below is my friends bungalor recently completed too, how much do you think was involved?
I will not respond to you again because i know your type maybe you just graduated.

abouzaid:
over seventy 70% of Nigerians earn 40k or less each month,how then do they afford to build their homes if a three bedroom costs 12-15 million?

Rubbiish:

God will richly bless u sir
People tend to see things from one perspective when they are blessed in life, forgetting poor people constitute over 70% of world population. If professionals now use only premium approach for buildings, how will the average man build his home?? Lol

Wonder why God don't bless people...

Rubbiish:

Break it down, lets see how he is gonna spend 15million on a 3bedroom bungalow & not just just throwing false figures...

abouzaid:
over seventy 70% of Nigerians earn 40k or less each month,how then do they afford to build their homes if a three bedroom costs 12-15 million?

timesup234:
Young man i can build a three bedroom for you with 4million if that is what you are looking for. We are talking about a standard building with above average finishing.

galaxi:


Lol!
You are a funny guy!
I do not see myself as rich but i like good things and go for it if i can afford it.

Looking at the house that lead to this arguement, you will agree with me that it is been built to standard.

I know about contruction very well and the fact remains that it will cost more than already already spent to be completed, am sorry if you feel insulted but i have been to bungalors worth more than 20m and profesionally the total cost of a house is dependent on taste of the owner.
God bless you!

EgunMogaji:
The issue we have here is standard.

Standard we know can vary widely and this is where HOA comes in.

Including land I doubt that my next door neighbor spent N3 million on his bungalow but I wouldn’t try to pass that off as standard while in the company of reasonable adults.

I blame this on the non existing or enforced laws in Nigeria.

abouzaid:
even government enforced standards are meant to cover the barest acceptable quality but it's left to the owner to build to his own standard, for example, the smallest sized bedroom by building code is 7'x10 but we know the average Nigerian home have bigger bedrooms. what about quality and cost of tiles,ceiling types, paint type etc.it's wrong for a man that built with 12 million to dismiss the home of three million as substandard. what pushes up the cost of homes is luxurious finishings and cut throat contractors/ relatives.

EgunMogaji:


I disagree.

Government mandates safe habitable standard that will protect life and property.

Not to pick on my neighbor too much but as an example he used local wood doors. Even with the door of the parlor closed, one agama agama just dey join us anyhow. That’s how big the gaps and cracks were.

There’s a door but that I’m sure that it won’t meet any government standard.

That one can slap a grudgingly habitable house together doesn’t mean that we should consider it standard.

I do get your point and I entertained it.

EgunMogaji:


I disagree.

Government mandates safe habitable standard that will protect life and property.

Not to pick on my neighbor too much but as an example he used local wood doors. Even with the door of the parlor closed, one agama agama just dey join us anyhow. That’s how big the gaps and cracks were.

There’s a door but that I’m sure that it won’t meet any government standard.

That one can slap a grudgingly habitable house together doesn’t mean that we should consider it standard.

I do get your point and I entertained it.

Rubbiish:

The teak wooden door was poorly constructed, same way turkish or chinese door can be poorly constructed if the openings are not properly sized. It doesn't make the use of wooden doors less than standard.
If mr A decide to use nigeria PNT ceramics tiles all through his build, & Mr B use spanish glaze tiles, it doesn't make mr A build less than standard.

abouzaid:
building code is not against wooden doors but a door with big cracks is not the average Nigerian home. this is an extreme example.

abouzaid:
about ten years or more ago. a nairalander by the name sunnybobo spent over thirty million to build a six bedroom bungalow somewhere in Anambra. but he never claimed it to be a standard home but showed it off as a luxury home. that same house today would definitely cost over hundred million to build. but we're talking about average homes here not luxury homes. I can easily tell you how to build a three bedroom bungalow with two hundred million complete with a two acre sized artificial lake stocked with thousands of edible catfish and tilapia,and a few fishing boats, a covered lap swimming pool, a two bedroom quest quarters,guard home, a car port etc.but I would never call it a standard home by Nigerian standards even though I know it's more or less a regular home in some parts of the USA and Australia.

EgunMogaji:


I’ve read the Nigerian building code thanks to Brabus. Have you?

It’s not an extreme example, for my experience.

timesup234:
Any three bedroom built today should exceed over 3 million excluding fencing and outside work and painting so what are we arguing about? Won't you spend extra 2 million or more on fencing, gate, fence protector, outside german floor or interlocking tiles etc? Won't that total over 5 Million?

galaxi:

I have friends that completed houses recently and all complained about high cost of building materials.
When it comes to standard building 12m to 15m is not a big money.

mufutau55:


When the person start to build the house... and adding cost, they will see say not be washa.

Hajji M.

EgunMogaji:

This reminds me of me before I put shovel to the ground and my eyes cleared of all my grandiose plans

mufutau55:


All of us learnt o... For my kobo-kobo project, I put big plan for paper, 7 Bedrooms ensuite, 2 big livingroom, a BQ with 2 Units of 2 Bedrooms.
Spyder say nah MQ (Man Quarter). I have never stop crying since I started. I beg, make I develop my shithole o.

Hajji M.

EgunMogaji:

Darenyx can attest to me asking him later why he didn’t stop my insane design
Worse is that my Wife has refused to go back to Nigeria when I retire in 3 years (insha allah). So I’ll be patrolling my 5,500 square feet alone for a while

EgunMogaji:


Darenyx can attest to me asking him later why he didn’t stop my insane design

Worse is that my Wife has refused to go back to Nigeria when I retire in 3 years (insha allah). So I’ll be patrolling my 5,500 square feet alone for a while

donvicky2007:


Thanks man. Benin is fast developing, even Amagba GRA is fast developing with the speed of light.

miredia:
About how much do you think I can get a 50/100 in the heart of GRA preferably by a tarred road?

donvicky2007:


Is possible

Contact me if you ready.

donvicky2007:


Amagba 4.8M 100x200........
If you have your choice location, you can let me know ,then will tell you the price. "100 by 200 "

Mup4life:
Mrmarley did you use the 5inches block in the inner pattition of your dpc also? Or you used 6inches all through for dpc and 5inches for the inner partitions after dpc level?