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For those who dont already know, ckenneths is a combination of my real name and the first letter in my surname, that is the username I was using 4-5 years ago when I was trading stocks in the Nigerian stock exchange as an investor/small time trader.

Since I cannot finish sending my pictures this night and am not sure of being in town tomorrow, I decided to wake up the lost id and post these pictures with it. I will be using this username to post till my Spyder880 user name is restored maybe today or tomorrow.

I am therefore begging lawyer to please unban Spyder880.[color=#990000][/color]

Spyder880 is ckenneths and ckenneths is Spyder880.

Spyder/Ckenneths

Do you do renovations as well - or only constructing new buildings? I'm planning to renovate/upgrade our village house in Anambra.

blacklion: Spyder/Ckenneths

Do you do renovations as well - or only constructing new buildings? I'm planning to renovate/upgrade our village house in Anambra.

I will be handling a renovation of a very big house in Anambra in the next few weeks. I am still working out the costs with the new client. How big is your house of which you want renovated and when are you planning to start.

You can send me a mail on ckenneths@yahoo.co.uk

Hey!! seems lawyer has restored my Spyder880 user name, so fast, thank you lawyer.

My house, updates

from the back of the house

from the Enugu bungalow, updates

roofing in progress

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we are also moving fast in our duplex project at Owerri, these are pictures taken after 4 days of action;

Day 1: excavation
Day 2: sinking of pillar bases
Day 3: setting of pillars and commencement of blinding
Day 4: full blinding

We shall be setting blocks on the blinded portion from this evening, block setting continues tomorrow.

Meanwhile, some pictures

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Like I said before, we are starting blocks setting this evening, my brick layers are waiting around now, blocks are plenty, so is sand, water, (water has been pumped up to the overhead tanks) cement dey, and the skills, here we go again......

spyder880: My house, updates

Your house is coming out well. For the down part of a duplex, is it advisable for somebody to do POP or PVC or just paint the decking?. The down part of my duplex project has the main sitting room, dinning, kitchen, store and an ensuite room on it and iam wondering whether to do a POP or PVC on or just to paint the decking or do a POP or PVC on the main sitting room and dinning areas and then paint the others. I have already decided that it will be PVC ceilings for the upper part. Comments and suggestions are welcomed from other gurus.

@ NL1960,
Its really a matter of choice, each of the 3 choices are good and will be pretty if well finished, your pocket will also play an important role in coming out with the best decision. (my 3 cedis worth)

After 5 days of work, we have filled the foundation with blocks and are waiting for the carpenter to board the pillars so we can start casting the pillars, thereafter we can start filling up the foundation with sand.
I dont think we can hit our target of 15 days to lift this work from first digging of the foundation till getting decking ready, but we are going to give it a very good try.
More pictures of work progress later.

This house will be done with internal toilet piping, conduit style. We are going for the best of everything here.

After 5 days of action, this is what we have in the 6 bedroom duplex project in Owerri. The blocks are old and some have changed colour, they are also of irregular size from the mold, but that will not be an excuse for us to do a bad job, my work must be neat irrespective of how bad the blocks are.

Did you see the height we are giving this foundation, 5 blocks before the floor slab. The immediate implication of this high foundation is that you will need an additional quantity of filling sand to fill up the foundation before you do the floor slab. But yeah, better thing dey cost money

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Work still ongoing, more updates as from tomorrow.

well done bro, am thinking of getting a property in enugu. any help? gra, t/e, or any prime area. raphmo2000@yahoo.com

okenwa: well done bro, am thinking of getting a property in enugu. any help? gra, t/e, or any prime area. raphmo2000@yahoo.com

I work with a team of agile estate agents and this will not be a problem. I will mail you later today for all the options and available properties in Enugu. Are you interested in empty lands or built up properties?

By tomorrow, we are going to escalate the supply of materials, sand, granite chippings, cement, rods and wood. I am expecting at least 100 tons of materials by tomorrow. Work goes on.

Hi spyder, i have an engineer working on my site and its a 4 bedroom bungalow and we are doing the balcony extension and the dining arch and the building is up to lintel and his adding 9inch block ontop as well, doing the soakerway as well, tho i am not in country and i have sent him 460k to get the project going, this is what i received from him today and i just dont understand how he works out the figure, please check and let me know what you think
ITEM DESCRIPTION Qty Amount
Expenses on Blocks
9" Concrete blocks 750 105,000
6" Concrete blocks 200 26,000
6" Concrete blocks additional 200 28,000
Sub Total 159,000
Work on Soakerway
Concrete Blocks 370 51,800
Cement 20 36,000
Bricklayer (Blk setting, plastering, decking) 30,000
Iron rod 22 38,060
Rings 12 350
Iron bender 4,000
Sub Total 172,210
Cement for lintel & 7 major arch 41 63,800
Sub Total 63,800
Planks
Planks1x12x12, 2x3x12 27,000
Scaffolding planks for bricklayer 3,500
Nail 3,500
Carpenter revalued charge ( additional job) 18,000
Sub Total 52,000
Iron Rod & Welder
12mm iron rod 20 51,900
Rings 120 3,500
Transport 1,500
Binding wire 1/2 roll 1,500
Iron Rod & Welder 6,000
Sub Total 64,400
Granite, Dust & Sand
Load of granite 1 130,000
Load of granite dust 1/2 load 50,000
Double load of soft sand 1 18,000
Sub Total 198,000

Bricklayer for Partitionning
Lintel casting, 7 arch & levels + N10,000 variation on
new work 45,000
Sub Total 45,000

Flooring
Cement for flooring 26 46,800
Bricklayer ( flooring + N10,000 additional charge for new work 42,000
Sub Total 88,800

Total Expenditures 843,210
Amount Sent by me to the Engineer 453,900
Balance 389,310
15% supervision charge 84,321
Balance + 15% charge 473,631

initially N454k was the quotes and now he wants more money N389,310 to carry on with the job....