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element: preliminary: these involve the setting up things that will help smooth running and construction of the building. Things like source of water( bore hole, well or water vendor etc). source of work tools like wheel barrow, shovel, head pan etc.

1. 1 wheel barrow @ N1500/nr = N15,000
2. 5 head pan and shovel @ N800/nr = N10,000
3. Builders square, lines, bucket etc = N6,000
Total = N31,000

sinking of bore hole may be capital intensive depending on the location of the building. Here in south south ( Rivers), the water table in shallow nd hand drilling can be employed. A depth of about 10m will guarantee adequate supply of water for the project.
Drilling done manually = N30,000
Sumo pump = N40,000
Gp tank of 1500ltrs capacity = N25,000
small plumbing work, hose and other miscellaneous = N15,000
Total = N110,000

Note that the bore hole will be useful after the completion of the house since only an overhead tank will be required

some of the elevations

I will start by presenting the proposed 3 D for the building, I actually make a 3 D for the building to buttress my point better

here are some of the 3D of the proposed building

Good evening room, I am about to start the construction of a three bedroom flat for a a nairalander in Port Harcourt. I find it interesting to share the cost analysis, some small structural design procedure and construction process so that other prospective building owner can contributes and also learn from the job

Completion of the roofing wooden work. Here is the breakdown of materials
1. 2 x 4 hard wood long length of 17ft = 120nr
2. 2 x 4 hard wood of short length of 11ft = 160nr
3. 2 x 3 hard wood of short length of 11ft = 240nr
4. 1 x 12'' facial board = 26nr
5. 2 x 2'' soft nogging wood = 300nr
6. 2 bags of 4'' nail and 2 bags of 3'' nail
workmanship 120k

duration of job = 5days

We seriously need revolution and attitudinal change.
Nigeria is a country where government that produce nothing is the highest employers of labour
A country that prioritize salary and allowances over road, rail, power, education and health care service
A country with majority of wealthy class politicians and ex permanent secretary.

Nigeria will never become an industrialized leading economy country if we continues in this path

bushdoc9919:
Aregbe is a good lad!

On a more serious note....Aregbe should

1.Go and read Lee Kwam Yeu.

2.Pay a visit to Singapore.

3.Go and do likewise in Osun.

4.He will never ever be remembered for salary arrears again!

Singapore has high educated middle class in the sixties when they left the Malaysian federation, they have skillful manpower, ready made entrepreneurship population that can set up small and medium scale industries and also have the patience to watch it grow. Singaporean were not like Nigerians that want to make money without working

manny4life:
Haha.. The SW is in serious trouble o, was it not a few weeks ago that Ambode was removing labor from his workforce? Haha, there is trouble o.

Government should never be the major employer or formal labour...Government need to be an agent of infrastructure development and the protector of rule of law and not a cooperate company or business venture that employ labor.
Nigeria is in deep messed because of corrupt political class, corrupt civil service and lazy inefficient civil service. I think the size of states like osun civil service need to be slashed because of too many lazy workers.

Agriculture, mining, manufacturing and servicing should be the major contributors to employment generation and not some civil service commission

ufelove:
Hmmm... I remember this TV although ours was classic,it had a sliding door in front of the screen

Hmmm... I remember this TV although ours was classic,it had a sliding door in front of the screen**goodtimes**

i remember that sliding tv too... we do feel cool with our long bamboo antenna

continuation of roofing work

continuation of the roof

mufutau55:
Wow! Your favorite.

Hajji M.

yes sir..long time sir

princejones:
Nice job my guy and pray for more jobs and contracts for we young contractors and building engineers

amin sir

Shawls:
@abdulwastec
How many 1-bedroom self contained apartments (bungalow) with cross ventilation can I get from a perfect 50x100 rectangular plot?
Alternatively,how many 2-bedrooms apartment (bungalow)?I want to maximize the land for my retirement.The land is at Elebu in Ibadan after the market not far from the tarred road,but rent is not that high for 3bedrooms there.
Can you give a rough plan? I sent you an email a long time ago, you did not reply.

Shawls.

for the one bedroom flat maybe 4 to 5 units
for the two bedroom flat maybe 3 to 4 units

walestega:
Hello Sir,

You are really doing a nice job here. I have a little concern. I have a big bros civil engineer who supervises my site for free. I'm presently done with my the foundation of my 3 Bedroom bungalow and the fear of filling is sickening as the land is sloped. I have opportunity of using the graded soil in the estate for filling my foundation but he insists it's top soil and that i should buy laterite and use for filling instead.
With my calculation, it will take up to 25-30 Man diesel trucks to fill that foundation.
Kindly advice on what to do.

Regards

Your brother is right to insist you filled the foundation with laterite.
The compromise here is due to cost and magnitude of your job sir, i will suggest you use the graded top soil in the estate because you house is a bungalow with limited span and light functionality.

i will also suggest you filled the foundation in layers of 150mm wet it and properly compact manually with rammer. if hardcore stones are cheap in your area I suggest you filled about 150mm top level of the foundation with hard core before you finally add small sharp sand and place your membrane.

more pics

here is the roofing work
wood type :
2 x 4 hard wood of 18ft length
2 x 4 hard wood of 12ft length
2 x 3 hard wood purline of 12ft length
1 x 10 facial board 0f 11ft lenth
4'' and 3'' nail
Wood treatment chemical

description of the roofing
spacing wooden roof truss = 4ft center to center
height of the king post = 10ft (3m)

continuation of the work:The first task was the completion of the front arch

the client want to rest for sometime due to money

snakebeat:
U're bless... Where do u reside?

permanent residence @ abuja, temporarily in port for some work

snakebeat:
Thanks a lot sir....
U're good... Don't knw if u can stretch ur kindness by doing justice to d following questions, how many headpan or wheelbarrow can one get from one tonne of sharp sand and granite?
If one is to get 35blocks from one bag of cement, what would be the mix ratio?

Hapy sunday....

let me give you a small breakdown sir.
gravel are sold in tonnes,
1 tonne = 1000kg
we all know the relationship between mass and volume, you headpan, bucket or any other working materials has volume, such relationship is density = mass/volume
all you need to do is get the volume of the head pan or bucket, get the density of such aggregates ( e.g gravel with density of about 2400kg/m3. sharp sand with density of 1600kg)

from the above, simply make volume = mass/density
and then divide the result by volume of your head pan or bucket to get the number of head pan in it.

Note that:
1. a trip of any material is subject and depends on the carriage capacity of the tipper, we have 30tonnes trip of gravel, we have 15tonne trip of gravel.

2. for sand, we buy in bucket, we have 3 bucket equivalent to 15 tonnes

snakebeat:
But why steel? Are d spaces that big?

it is rivers state school and they have their specifications... the spans in the chapel is very big

snakebeat:
Thank u for d explanation sir. But as regards
part of cement = 2.025 x 1/7 x 1506/50, how did u come abt 1/7?

Bar required per column = 4, how also did u come abt this 4? Or it's standard?

1/7 is the ratio of cement in the mix 1:2:4 ( where cement = 1, sand =2, gravel =4, sum of all ratio = 7)

4 number of reinforcement is the number specified by the design engineer. structurally, one can only have even number of bars (iron) or reinforcement in a column eg. 4, 6, 8, 10 etc

snakebeat:
I can see another reinforcement on top d bld height, was is it for?

the reinforcement is for the head course to receive the steel truss roof

more pics

more pics from the job

more pics from the work

here is the completion of all block work to head course.

anwo247:
That's it.

This is why I have had this uncontrollable urge to slap some people here. And the people are the yorubas.... sellouts since 1914.

The question i keep asking you south easterners calling yorubas sell out....is what do you have in common with yorubas that gave you the audacity to call us sell out?

Yorubas interact alot with northern groups like nupes, fulalanis, hausas etc.
what interaction do we have with igbos?

freshdude99:
you are very far from reality so I won't argue with you. The reason I choose not to is simply, ur name explains exactly where you are from and before I say a word or two about my point, tribalism will set in. So keep living in ur idealistic and abysmal world. Happy living

Yes i am from the North ( Yoruba ).
yes i am a muslim.
But you are wrong I' m not a religious or ethnic bigot, if you have anything to explain feel free to do so.... Dongete is a great Nigeria that is putting food in the mouth of a million family daily and i live him for that

Mogidi:
Which quality player can you buy with $20m?

balance= revenue - expenditure
arsenal can afford to have a deficit of $20m a year by easily investing all the revenue accrue in one financial year on players and allowance.

The bottom line is after the taking over dangote don't really need to expend too much money, all he need to do is to reinvest all their profit back into the team