₦airaland Forum

twenty one gun salute to the main man himself. nice gravel,are those washed or just hand broken, they don't seem to contain mud. good work, keep it up.

mrvitalis:
I don't get..... this confusing.... first 8trn budget
.. Only 2trn as capital expenditure?. ... And u say u want 40% capital expenditure?
Or am I missing something?

i thought i was the only one that noticed it, this guys are jokers

yorke1:
If only proper investigation/DNA test carried out on this man, i am very sure his lineage can be traced to the land of the parasite(North). Bastardd!

his mother is a Fulani from the sokoto ruling family that's why he holds the title of the son of sokoto

this article seems like propaganda to prepare the ground for the hausanization of the customs service

meetdopi:
My 4bed room + BQ has reached the lintel level and I need honest advice on the possible cost of roofing the 2 buildings. The roofing plan is as attached. The main building dimension is circa 13 X 22sqm while the BQ is 13 X 4.5sqm. Genius in the house please advise

bros, how far na with the floor plan?

tonychristopher:
Anambra people are traders they don't go to school that us what some idiots and monkeys said ...they even went and said that they are sophisticated but yet we can't even see them making impact intellectually


A lie might travel million miles
It will take a step of truth to catch up


Let them keep lying and we keep moving forward


Proudly nnewi dude



Hate me if you like ..I am too igbotic no apologies

i de fee your back.

meetdopi:
My 4bed room + BQ has reached the lintel level and I need honest advice on the possible cost of roofing the 2 buildings. The roofing plan is as attached. The main building dimension is circa 13 X 22sqm while the BQ is 13 X 4.5sqm. Genius in the house please advise

search for h$lbroker thread here, the Guy is an experienced carpenter and hard wood supplier and would give you a free quote. please can you send your floor plans to greenermodels@gmail.com. thanks in advance

a house built specifically for sale would likely be built to the lowest possible standards, go to any of the estate threads and hear the negative stories

nobody believes the Nigerian army anymore yet they keep talking

engrdubem:
I remember the day I went to the school,driving down the road was so scary sef,I pity the students.......and they say willie is working....okay oh.

Willie is a monkey but he's far more better than any other sitting governor besides that school is a federal institution.

hopeless nation, what would it cost them to organise a school security/vigilante which is already so common in anambra? Nigerians in power always abuse their offices.

archialternative.com/2011/01/23/i-see-poor-people/ worldwide online salary survey shows how poorly architects are paid worldwide. we still thank God for Nigeria.

barcarnista has eventually destroyed his reputation.

peaceland:
@ abouzaid, @ rotecch77,
please help me to understand
are you guys talking about 40k litres or 4k litres
seems you wrote 40k litres which is bigger than a full pms tanker
just want to be sure I am not imaging the wrong thing.
thanks sirs.

i assumed that he meant 4,000litres so i didn't bother to ask him to clarify since that should be around 1000 gallons.

rotecch77:
@abouzaid;1000 gallon is much ok for the house, while the one for business is based on how large the neighborhood is but I will. Advise you to do separate standing for that which will contain 2 set of 2500 gallon tanks, lastly the capacity of the bore hole and the state determine the pump capacity ( if it's southwest area 1 or 1,5 hp pump is ok)

thanks again but it would be clearer if you quote the figures in litres since a British gallon is different from an American gallon.thanks again sir.

do we have any borehole expert here please?

rotecch77:
@abouzaid; the said tank size(20,000lts) is too much for a bungalow, the load will too much. For the pillars to withstand

thanks a million but what size do you recommend? can you handle a borehole project? the house would have a small fish pond and would be selling water to the people in the neighborhood in Jerry cans now and to tankers some time in the future. what size of tank and pump do would you recommend?

obiano has been romancing with the north since gej lost the election, anambrarians should watch him closely meanwhile boko haram terrorists are still at ekwulobia

rotecch77:
More coming

please i want to deck a part of a bungalow to contain an overhead water stand for a large tank like 20,000 liters tank. what size do you suggest the slab to be in order to contain the tank?

homerac7:
My apologies, please send email to "homerac7@yahoo.com".

mail sent, please try and quote me henceforth so that you can appear on my mentions. happy weekend to you.

homerac7:
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please what's the prices for the different sizes of brc wire mesh.

adeekiti:
thanks boss, no German floor but what can be done in dis situation @ abouzaid..location: ogun state, owner lives far away from the house. A 4bedroom flat , other problems are crack floors in the compound.

honestly, i don't have a confirmed fix but what we did sometime ago in enugu state is that we painted the lower part of the wall with oil based water proof paint and it even looked nice, as for the cracking floors in the compound, it's still lack of German floor is at work, i guess the owner either have to do a proper German floor or carry out periodic repairs. i hope others can give you more concrete solutions. take a look at the attached picture, you can see how the lower part of the house is painted black but your own house would need the paint to be higher due to the lack of a dpc and German floor.

please do anyone know the current prices of fibre cement roofing sheets like the one made by nigerite? please does it need specially trained carpenters?. @adeekiti, does that house have a German floor before the blockwork was done? does it have a damp proof membrane? oil based water proofed paint would help but the cost might be very high.

abdulwastecx:
Niger state is my my home (suleja my place of birth)
I have resided in suleja ad minna. In suleja, we have a lot of quarry sourcing granite ( which i also call gravel ) is not that expensive, but in minna and bida, granite tends to be a bit expensive so people use local stone in that area.

what people call gravel is actually referred to natural stones or all in one aggregates, since they occur naturally , gradation may be very difficult to do.

Here is my opinion sir, natural stone with rough surface other than metamorphic rock can be use for building construction of smaller bungalows where structural integrity is not of a paramount important.
For larger house or structures, a well graded stone (granite) free from dust and with appreciable crushing strength should be use.

I always put this into use when i am in the east (anambra), the condition there

thanks a lot, you're one of the few if not only other builder here that approach issues with a realistic and down to earth approach making use of locally available and widely used techniques instead of the television type packaging that others often adopt. i hope you're enjoying anambra? idemmilli is a nice place although I'm a bit worried about the gradual emergence of Lagos like levies and extortions with the associated omo onile mentality.

[quote author=abdulwastecx post=39254026][/quote]please are you familiar with building practices in Niger state? we often use gravel (locally referred to as concrete sand) only because of cost and i haven't seen any negative results but here on nairaland it's exclusively granite. what do you think of it?

i hate the bad blood, hypocrisy and backbiting on this thread.

NL1960:
It is not really a quote. When i want to do any aspect, i normally tell my brother who has been handling the project to get the person to do an estimate. It is my brother that i send money to and he does not connive with them. He buys materials on need basis. Cement has actually come down. It is normally N1,950. It is in the village and the sellers are small time sellers and not those sellers that can buy 600 bags at once for resell. They might even be buying from those selling at N1400 to resell.

The reason i posted these prices is to highlight the point that location matters in a project and that an amount that cannot be used for instance in a place like Lagos to complete a project can be used in another location to complete the same project. Iam getting the sand and gravel from the village which is why it is cheap. People familiar with Edo North for instance will know of Okpella. It is the home of granite and so will be cheaper there. I intend to take pictures of my gate when i go home and show it here and then tell people to guess the price.

As i said earlier, i studied how the farmers were able to achieve building bungalows to house them and their families without having all the millions in their pockets. There is no 'money for foundation', 'money for decking', 'money for roofing', 'money for offloading materials' in the villages. These are serious savings that is put back into the project.

Btw, did you notice that there is no transport on the list and yet there is a gate and fence railings that will be brought to the site for this work. Transport na FOC now. Just buy sheppe for boys and your gate and fence railings will be at your site in a twinkle of an eye. The same thing happened for my water tank stand for a duplex. Even standing it, there was no crane used.

please extend my greetings to your brother, he's really trying. apart from the cement, everything there seems quite cheap. divide the total price of your blocks by the total quantity and you would see that the price per block would likely be #80 or less for six inches. now compare it to the prices often quoted here and you would see that their prices are atleast 50% higher. there is a reason most of them are keeping quiet but let leave it at that. all i know is that one day either me or someone else will launch a thread that will put everything to the test.

Ramos16:
You obviously are a very ignorant person, with very little intelligence, no offence , I do not know where you get your news of the Catholic church spitting Oyedepo and his likes, last time I checked it was fellow "Pentecostal" worshipers that do the spitting..

Why I say you are not smart, why bring your case up now, when if you look around, you will see a lot of catholic schools which are the most expensive in the country, especially their secondary school... I have not heard of a Catholic school that is not expensive, never heard of... So I feel it is foolishness for you to think that the Catholics spite Oyedepo, they barely know him seff.. and anybody with good level of intelligence should be able to point out the obvious to them (the Catholics), if at all I believe your story...

Do not let you shear hate for something cloud your judgement, it is one thing to just hate something or somebody and speak of it, it is another to be able to make sound judgement void of mawkishness.... and this goes to every other person out there, that is thinking with their leg instead of their head.... fix it or leg up...

yours is the most intelligent quote so far, the vc said highest fees and the question they should have asked is "for what course" when i was at unn, social sciences paid about 20k, biological sciences about 40k, engineering about 60k, while medicals was about 100k ( all figures rounded up). the same structure is visible in Madonna so i don't think the fees are bad. if you compare it to other church owned schools in that region, it will still likely come out as the cheapest by far.

Whynotthetruth:
Nwanne, akpokwana anybody itiboribo biko here...onye obula bara uru n'udi nke ya...Though there's need for humility but the insults and hatred demand that you celebrate and dance to the gallery to flaunt your success sometimes... that your enemy may see the truth which he refuses to acknowledge about you...and also your happiness will inflict some more pain on his poisonous mindset about you

hmmm,I'm afraid to write anything other than I'm very worried about the igbo vs Yoruba mindset despite the visible truth in your post.

NL1960:
If something is not experimented, nobody will know if it is possible. Location matters in the cost of a building project. You can still start your project and give us a feedback on the cost. I studied the farmers in the village to know how they were managing little funds to build their houses and i learned something from their approach and cost savings measures. Finishing is relative and subjective. Somebody can buy a toilet set for 70k while another person will buy the one for 7k. Somebody can build a bungalow for N20m and somebody will laugh at the person and say that what the person built is useless because he had used N50m to build his own bungalow.

I was given this for the completion of my fencing and mouthing of gate. I used a total of 25k(10 bags of cement, water, sand, labour for molding) for the blocks that will be used to complete the fence.

QUOTATION OF FENCING MATERIAL
N6, 000 10 planks (600)
N 24,000 12 Workmen (2,000)
N 11,000 11 laborers (1,000)
N 40,000 25 Bags of cement (1,600)
N 1,000 5 pd wt of 3 inches nail (200)
N 4,800 4 length of 12 mm rod (1,200)
N 2,000 2 length of 10 mm rod (1,000)
N 8,000 1 Trip of gravel
N 1,000 half bundle of binding wire (1,000)
N 2,000 a day job of carpenter
N 2,000 a day job of iron bender
N 6,000 two trip of sand (3,000)
TOTAL N 107,000

Can you notice some 'abnormal' low prices in this quote?.

cost of building materials and labour is relative to location but i think the price of cement is too high, i bought dangote #1350 here in the north, ask them to explain more. i don't really know the size of what you're doing but why so many labourers/workmen? the quantity of cement and iron rods too seems too much just to mount a gate. get a second quote from an independent source if possible. i reread your post and noticed that you still have some sections of the fence to finish but still ask questions and get an independent quote. the prices for most things on the list seems ok if not even cheap (the iron rods seems underpriced). good luck

NL1960:
I have also not seen on Nairaland. The question is whether it is only on Nairaland that projects can be posted. How many people even post on Nairaland?. There are clients that some Nairaland members build for who do not want their projects to be displayed on Nairaland. So many building projects are being done everyday. How many of such gets to Nairaland?. A builder here never knew of Nairaland until he was introduced by a Nairaland member after he handled his project. There are so many of such people out there using economical ways to deliver projects on a tight budget.

bros please free him, i just want the issue to pass. it would have been a worthwhile discussion if he was a builder and i can't just see anything to gain from arguing with him, my only disappointment is the nairaland builders, i have no doubt that if i launch a thread now to build this house, many of them would start engaging in false criticism because they are protecting their interests so i have decided to be a passive observer on this thread henceforth, so please free him.

Tosinayoko:
What they dare not try in the North

there's an eze ndi igbo in every part of the north, i think it actually first established in Kano before spreading to other parts of the country and beyond, i sincerely think that both the igbos and yorubas need to rethink a lot of things because both would lose big time.