₦airaland Forum

EgunMogaji:
Professor to the rescue. This is what is missing on Nairaland. Not many steps out of the box.

One of my houses in California does not have any load bearing internal wall. The walls are true partitions.

Back when it was built, you cannot change the outside wall but you can sit down with the builders Architect and configure the internals

Oga AbdulWastecsx, una no go shook mouth for the matter?

I dey here my big Oga.

The standard configuration of roof truss will look like the picture you posted above, where you have only two members, namely the strut ( members undergoing compression) and the tie (member undergoing tension on the the applied load.

These members forces are gotten through structural analysis of the load acting on the roof such as
Dead load
1. Load of roofing sheet, 2.load of the self weight of roofing truss, 3. Load from suspended ceilings or pop and 4. Load from Fittings such as plumbing and electrical.

Impose load (life load)
1. Load from rainfall
2. Load from snow (for Europe and north America
3. Wind load ( when the structures is high rise or places with high wind velocity.

After all these loads have been estimated, these load are basically applied through a simplified method through a node ( point where we have the purlin) and the analysis are carried out using manual method like joint method of truss analysis, or section method or using a specialized softwares.

The result from the structural analysis is used to size the timber truss members for the members in tension and compression by looking at standard stress of the timber and their sectional properties.

The load from these timber roof will act at the roof supports which are normally the external walls of the building.

In summary, a standard roof truss design and constructed following basic engineering principle will distribute load to the external walls but most of the wood truss we build here are not design to have a clear span between the two external walls of the building ,they are designed to have intermediate supports which are the internals walls, hence, they carry more load than the external walls

Chekitaut:
Me your friend...? Lol

Sorry, my Oga send me the balance?

Chekitaut:
If you do million of things to people, that one thing you fail to do is what they will capitalize on,

When it was 130k you did not say anything online after delivering to your site your bal is 40k you carry Hauja. Too bad. "Ori ti o ma je e ko, ti o ba lo si moon ko si ni, o ma je". I hv help u deliver with all honesty. But you Bleep up Abdulwastecx unto 40k

My friend, you haven't been of any help to me, please send me my balance. I need that money please

chelseabmw:
How much will this cost? Let me have ur email or Whatsapp no

You can whatsapp on 08169492682

chelseabmw:
Pls how much will this cost?

It depends on where you are planning to build the house

mightykay:
what really happened? Do you invest, pls let me know cos I want to invest there

It was another matter entirely, I don't have the money to invest in such a deal and if I have the money I will never do anything with this guy

Please take off this picture. The picture is a property of Harney project

mufutau55:
NO. This is still going on?

Hajji M.

Yes sir... The guy never pay me

Chekitaut:
Big one, Presently Haulage is really making big waves now.

With a capital of N30m you are sure of N3.5m every month, Interested individual contact me Calls/whatsapp: 08055545355, 08032887233

N30m presently can not buy a plot of land and build 4units of 3bedroom apartment(Economy class) also a 4units 3bedroom apartment can only get you a income of N3m a year.

Think Haulage with Chekitaut.

Where is my money? Abeg come pay me my balance o

bixton:
You have not answered my question and have only assumed what restructuring implies.

What difference is "resource control to restructuring"?

It is only the template that will tell you its intention and not what we all assume it to be.

Restructuring means the following
1. Resources control
2. Change of constitution which involve insertion of referendum and other clauses which will be agreed upon by all the federating units.
3. Change of the legislative arms from bicameral into unicameral system.
4. True devolution of power from a centralized federating state into a true federal states where each states or region will be able to make laws, police their state and organized their economy

Daboomb:
I gave reasons why l said they are greedy and selfish.
You need to tell me why you think they are not, stating your own reasons.

You probably have difficulty with understanding the meaning of Resource Control: I want to be in charge of all resources mined or sourced from my area. (That is not the 80% figure you are peddling around).

What is your own definiton of Restructuring?
You also probably did not read where l said my own definition of restructuring is defined based on EQUITY, FAIRNESS and JUSTICE for ALL.

Where you are from, should be irrelevant in this discussion as it is not about who you are as a person.
You can be from anywhere and still support or oppose restructuring, the important thing is to define what you are saying succinctly and get your view across.

You have to go back to my comment, there you see that I have a good understanding of what resources control means. They have the right to control 100% of the resources they mined, tax, farmed or produce in their land and locality. They have a right to that, we all have right to have our future in our hands

Equity and fairness are not by robbing Peters to pay Paul, it is not by building a rail line to link Daura to Kano ( when a more busy route like Anambra to Lagos, Lagos to Ibadan, Kano to Abuja etc have not been built). Fairness is not by laying over 1000km pipeline to Kaduna in other to build a refinery can easily be sited closer to a source of crude in the deltas or Lagos closer to the biggest market (Lagos alone consume over 40% of our refined petrol per day). Equity is not by giving a state like Kano and Katsina more allocation than Oyo state etc.

Where I am from is important because it helps to clear a lot of misunderstanding and the motives behind the restructuring because in your comment above you insinuate that most people supporting restructuring are greedy south easterner and niger deltas that want to have 100% control of the oil wealth

bigrovar:
Hi guys. This is a bit of a long one:

So I have been away (hustling and stuff) and decided to build a low budget functional house for my family and stop the house rent which is becoming a drain. I decided to build on a 50 by 50 plot of land. A basic 2 bedroom bungalow.

I did very basic floor plan (see attached) to allow for enough space for rooms and a packing space which can take 2 cars. I used this tool http://www.sweethome3d.com/ for my floor plan.

Due to my busy schedule, I left the supervision with my brother since he had experience in construction. He hired the technicians and hands for the project while I provided money.

They took the project to lintel level when I came back to inspect it. Unfortunately I was very unhappy with what I saw. Here are my concerns


1) Against my instruction, my brother still went on to mix 9 inches with 6 inches for the outter walls. I told him to use 9 inches for the outter walls of the house all through and reserve the 6inches for the house. This was not done instead 9 inches blocks was used up to window level and 6 inches used to lintel level. I fear that this might affect the structural integrity of the house in future, since the house was designed not to have pillers and DPC was not used in the 3 course foundation.

2) I halted the roofing of the house because the carpenter recommended I use head course which is a casting done round the house 2 courses after the lintel. Is this really necessary?


My brother said the style of laying 6inch blocks on 9inch was fine since I wont be doing parapet and the soil was dry and good and " people do it alot without issues" but am not sold.

Is they any remedy to this before roofing? please gurus in the house. I would appreciate your take. I have attached pictures of the property in its current state.

From the pictures above, I don't think you have anything to worry about the structural integrity of the house since you are building a bungalow. You may have to worry about the aesthetics like moisture rising through the Foundation later since you don't have 'DPM and DPC' but structurally you don't have to worry yourself since you are not building a parapet and your building is simply a[b] bungalow[/b]

I would advise you to go ahead with the roof since from experienced I believe a 6'' wall will be able to carry the load coming from the roof conveniently without any problem

Daboomb:
It all boils down to how well informed one is, in General topics and current affairs.
Its not everyone that is interested in Politics and General Affairs thus they may be short on "input", when such discussions are raised.
But instead of staying on the sidelines and reading so as to improve their knowledge, they prefer to shutdown those who posses the ability for such discuss, by pressing report Button over and over again.

That is the Nigerian syndrome in us, "If l cant have it, then no one must have it" .

Now, we have always disagre on where the problem lies (you like to see as witch-huntig of the previous administartion headed by your kinsman, when we say they laid the foundation, to a large extent, for the economic woes we have suffered in the last two years) but l agree with you that the polity needs to be restructured.

Restructuring itself should be based on Equity, fairness and Justice for every Nigerian.
But if you look closely, you will observe that noone wants to bell the cat and tell ourselves the truth.
What people call Restructuring right now is nothing more than a display of Selfish Greed.

Some people look at Nigeria and like members of a family, think that they should be the "family purse" so they can spend as much as they want, whileother members ofthe family go struggling and trying to meet up.

The TRUTH is that Resource Control is what most people (especially those from the East and ND) selfishly and greedily construe as restructuring! Its never going to happen, at least not in the next ten years.

Some others see retsructuring as Regionalism whereby Each region has and operates its onw Confedral Systemof Govt.
Like Resource Control, it will also put some "members of the family" in jeopardy and as such, they wont just keep quiet.

What l see as Restructuring is:
1) tackling Corruption in a way that ensures that Politicians are not attracted to Politics for the sake of the amount of money they can make from it. Make Public office financially unattractive so that only those who have real love to lead (and are even ready to spend their own money to make things work) are coming forward. Put the structures in place and dont let it be about a "strong man or personality"

2.) Have sero-tolerance for corruption such that like it is done in China, stealing Public funds should attract the death penalty.

3.) Remove "state of orgin" from any form Nigerians are filling. let every Nigerian be a Nigerian despite the fact that we all know where we come from but that should not be a ticket/barrier to any publci offering. Remove Quota system and all sorts of "educationally disadvantaged" excuses from admission toour insitutions. Let any area put forward their best persons and let there be open competition.

4.) Most importantly, let us return to REGIONALISM but in a way that it does not cause chaos.
The Crude Oil is th emain problem because over soem decades now, the whole nation has come to depend on it and take it as the only source of immense wealth. No Region can or must be allowed to pay claim to it FOR NOW.

Fed Govt should set a 20yr period under which ALL the proceeds from Crude oil is shared EQUALLY by all states, while the time is used to develop alternative source of income for all other non-oil producing states.
This is the only way to prevent war breaking out when some Region try secede with the Crude Oil

With time, every region will find its own source of income and stop depending on Crude Oil.
Once you remove the Crude Oil income from the equation, to restructure will be very easy and no one will even want to run Politics at the centre.
5.) purge the Nigerian Police of all these drunk, mentally unhinged criminals in its rank and recruit "medically and psychologically evaluated" Graduates into the Force. Have stiff penalty for bribery in the Police and Judiciary. Set-up sting officers that can catch and summarly dismiss such bribe takers.

6.) First, educate nigerian on hate Speeches and then pass into law, stiff penalty/jail terms for those that spew hate speeches in the name of freedom of speech.
7.) Make Recalling of Politicians very easy, by their constituents. Cut-off all alowances and excessive perks

8.) Deal decisively with all those challenging the authority of our nationhood, be they Odua, IPOB, AREWA or Creek Militants

I will even suggest we operate a quasi-military-presidential system for fixed 3years, to set things right as full democracy, as practiced in Nigeria today, creates too many loopholes for criminality.

The above is my own vision of restructuring.

How can the people agitating for restructuring be greedy?

How can a state like Lagos that generate the buck or non-oil revenue (0ver 60%) receives lesser money than a state like Kano state that contributes close to zero and with anti investment policy( they don't allow alcohol, they don't allow gambling and these are the major contributors to the supposed money they come to Abuja to collect on monthly basis)?

How can oil producing states that financed over 80% of our budget be greedy for demanding to have more controls or total control of the resources available in their land, a supposed resources that pollute their water, rendered their air contaminated, areas with more challenging terrains to build infrastructures? They deserve to have a 100% control of the resources in their land. I am from South west and from a state with no oil resources but restructuring is the only way we can put more people to work.

The 'status quo' needs to be changed, the era of inflated population by a section of the country to gain political power and more money from the federal government need to be stop, the era of do or die politics to become a president and occupy other federal political positions in other to loot needs to be stop and the only way we can achieve this is through 'true federalism'

People agitating for resources control or restructuring are not mostly from the so called south eastern and Niger deltas, but rather they are concerned young Nigerians that has grown delusional of lack of opportunities due to poor governors resulting from a flaw central system of government where a section of the country do all the work while the other part lord over, promote primitive ideology and always want to dictate the pace for the nation.

I am a Yoruba and a Muslim but I want a restructured Nigeria where every section can grow at their own pace, where the central government wouldn't be too attractive for criminals so that every elections year Nigeria will not always be at the edge of disintegration, where the ethnicity or the religion ones follows will not be a yardstick for selecting one for elected position at the federal level

Kazim88:
If war had broke out in 2015 because Goodluck won.... it would had been the poor masses that would have fought and died...

They would think they are APC fighting corrupt PDP

Not knowing PDP and APC do not actually exist.... politicians move to and from party to deceive gullible masses...
Ask Obj, Ask Atiku (2 senior APC members)

Don't mind those gullible youth my brother. The only war I can fight is the way of economy improvement, partisan politics use ethnic and religious sentiment to push their ideology forward, I have many poorly educated friend from elite background that are enjoying this country, they are the people that love the unity of this country and at the same time play religious card

Kazim88:
You absolutely right my brother... They use idle and jobless youths to threaten violence and brimstone on the nation if they don't get their way.

That is their way and if Nigeria breaks up they have the most to loose, I don't know why people give the '' core North " so much power. The southern part of this country are in a much better position economically and socially, the middle belt are also in a good position. The North west should never be in a position to issue threat to the rest of us because they don't have any bargaining power like economy, access to the sea, natural resources or human resources etc

jacyhelen:
even the Yorubas Knows it that they are slaves to the Hausa people..the inculcate it in their children when they are growing up.
Watch as Saraki,ipobexposed will never comment on this Thread at all.
God bless the Land of #Biafra.we shall be free someday.
May God continue to be on the sides of Yorubas to give them strengh on slavehood.

You just don't get it.... The only Slave in Nigeria are the poor, the rich are the slave masters while the poor are the slave irrespective of their ethnicity or religion.

Nwadiuto247:
The guy worries himself a lot over Osibanjo taking over from Buhari. This is not the first time i am witnessing such anger from him.
But the constitution must be followed if Buhari leaves the Presidency.

People like you give too much power to the so called "core North " the elite from this so called "core North " only use the multitude of illiterate, unemployed people from that region for their own political gains, people like the hope are the few educated ones benefiting massively from the flaw present arrangement, they will create more division and more hatred to keep the present arrangement.

givbitcoin:
I said it here before and I even wanted to state, practically, how, but on seeing how childish many people were, I took my leave.

If for any reason Buhari decides to resign or is unable to continue, osibanjo will still not be president. He can be anything but not my president, never!

Not your president? Your opinion doesn't count.

People like you is the major reason why this country is so backward, I wonder why you think so highly of yourself

MrRitchie:
I'm not around ATM

We can discuss on whatsapp...

[quote author=MrRitchie post=59716197]mowe

Call my number sir so we can arrange a meet up

MrRitchie:
Pls can u help me with 3bedrm bungalow with a flat roof that 3.5m can finish

Where are you planning to build the house?