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here are some pics for your view

spyroxy1: please don't kill the thread.. I am following the thread keenly
I will seriously want to have a business with you OP. Gimme ur number at spyroxy1@gmail.com and /or BB pin .
God bless the owner as she shares her success story..
as some1 already demanded for the costs and the process..... Ejo ,please Biko help wif this vital info

thanks

spyroxy1: please don't kill the thread.. I am following the thread keenly
I will seriously want to have a business with you OP. Gimme ur number at spyroxy1@gmail.com and /or BB pin .
God bless the owner as she shares her success story..
as some1 already demanded for the costs and the process..... Ejo ,please Biko help wif this vital info

thanks

This thread is still much alive. We ve been busy, as we have to deliver in 2 wks time, but i will find time to update all necessary info. Thanks for your interest.

can you pls give more details about this property, location, pics, title documents. i have a client who need a good property in a highly commercial area.

more floor tiles pics

more pics update

for the floor We use spanish,and china vitrified glazed grade A 5mm guage tiles 2350/sqm

more tiling work ongoing

spyroxy1: nice one

thanks

more pics of work ongoing

Work is fat progressing on tilling, plumbing fittings and installation more update on this later

[quote author=segcy.moor]First of all, apology if I may ve waste ur time. As you can see we ve through with this particular project and I ve already presented ur product before our other client.He is trying to compare ur product with ours here before taking decision.Now, back to time wasting issue. Many people here send design to us to prepare the bill,some request for design with 3D, gather information, even lead us to site to get professional advise with promising of giving us work,eventually we wont hear from them...I mean wasting our time...But life goes on![/quote]To buttress your point segcy moore; we get a whole lot of request from people both serious and unserious, asking for estimate from foundation to finish some don't even have drawings, some with drawings but their brief will be so scanty, at the end of the day after spending hours preparing the bill, spent megabytes to send the bill, even make calls at times to get some recent price info, now imagine the painful aspect is that most of this people will receive your quote and that is the end, no acknowledgment not to talk of thanking you or smelling the job. Well people should understand that preparing estimate na serious work. Anyhow as you said life goes on.

Read and learn!!!

Tile work in progress. more pix later

blink182: is it just this one box that will handle the waste of the whole building?

LOL Ooooooo. this is septic tank concrete in progress......

more update pics

Get your building design floor plan uploaded,ask your contractor to give you the break down of the estimate and also upload it here, i am sure you will get very good and relevant responses from here.

@topsy23 we have already engaged an M & E guys on this project. Your contact is noted, hope to contact you soonest. Thanks

CAUSES OF BUILDING FAILURE
Introduction
Structural failures in buildings have always occurred all over the world for a variety of reasons, or a combination of reasons. Whilst in other parts of the world structural failure can be traced to wrong engineering calculations, most failures in Nigeria can be traced to very poor construction, non-compliance with code or specifications or cutting corners on materials.
Buildings are designed to meet certain defined functions and to support certain loads without deforming excessively. The loads are the weights of people, objects, rain and wind which are called live loads and the weight of the building itself which is called dead load. For buildings that are mainly a few floors, the structural design is not as challenging as for multi-storey buildings.

1.0 The Major Causes Of Building Collapse
The major causes of building collapse are: -
i.
Bad design
ii.
Poor or faulty construction
iii.
Sub-structure failure
iv.
Super-structure failure
v.
Failure to comply with specifications
vi.
Use of sub-standard materials
vii.
Conversion and Change of use
viii.
Combination of causes

More internal pics are coming tomorrow. Tile work commences tomorrow, i will showcase our tile samples as the work progress

Oga segcy good job! but is this balcony save for children? i am just thinking...

As i am still trying to gather the early pics of this project, let me update you wt some recent pictures

Sprumbaba: Nice write up. I hope something like this makes Front page other than Tonto Dike

Thanks

Best wishes to all Nairalanders and visitors in your pursuit to acquire property as a way of investment (which is quite okay) or for personal use. I wish to use this tread to further enlightened ourselves on other investigation needed to be carried out before buying any property.

I am being prompted to put up this write up due to some of my observation as a structural engineer in the course of my duty to do integrity report on some property. I discover that some structures built in some time past were not actually built adhering to construction standard that could made the structure to last a lifetime. some of this structures are already showing major structural failure, therefore some owners would just do some cosmetic cover up and put such for sale.This is not applicable to old building alone, it is happening in new houses as well, i know of a newly building in one of the renown estate in lekki axis that the buyer had to quit quickly when the house was showing some failure and non functionality.

What do i do?

As a matter of fact property business is the most juicy for now, so we are not to fret investing in real estate sector but just for us to be careful and reduce the risk to the nearest minimum .

Besides normal investigation to ensure you are not dealing with 419, or buying a property under acquisition or litigation or dispute etc, the integrity of the structures should also be investigated.

1. Conduct a physical sighting/investigation do not buy photographs (LOL) I know of a man in Lekki who bought a property he saw on a flyer for about 40m, when he got to see the site he could not believe his eyes as his village was even more developed than the site.
2.In the course of conducting physical investigation, ensure the level of the house is far above the road, not just the road but the major road that connect the axis (go to osapa London, and learn from the experience of house owners in this axis), observe the bottom part of the house for dampness and possibly unacceptable settlement, when you enter into the house observe either you are stepping down into the house or up, look out for cracks observe the types of crack they are. Check the fence as well because fence give way easily if not well built as this can tell as well the possibility of the competence of the builder. Well many things to look at during physical investigation you may need a help of an expert in this field. DO NOT BE BLINDFOLDED WITH AESTHETICS AS THIS SHOULD BE 2ND IN UR PRIORITY LIST SAFE GUARDING YOUR INVESTMENT SHOULD BE THE MOST IMPORTANT!!!
3. if for one reason or the other you can not come to a reasonable conclusion by the physical investigation, and you are so interested in the property because of the commercial viability, them go for INTEGRITY TEST. This entails carrying out some test such as Smicth hammer test, PUNDT test, to investigate the strength of the concrete as built design vis-a-vis supposed designed, odeo meter test that will revealed the reinforcement arrangement, spacing and sizes. After all these the investigation engineer would now come up with a report called Integrity report that will contain his final recommendation.

Just to write a few lines and not to bore you with long stories. I am believing all other expert in the house will lend some more advice. Thanks for reading!

pix from the scratch. The site was a levelled ground, partially fenced round. The soil formation of this particular location at the topmost layer is fine sand follows by clay and gravel. there was a previous exploration of the fine sand(plaster sand) in this area, which left the entire area to be a little lower than the road. In a nut shell the advantage of this formation was that we did not dig too deep, cos already the entire area has been dug b4.

@ Ladapo: sure more previous pix and update are coming, am sure my client is more than willing to share the cost update from start with all of us and also share her experience on hw she manage to really cut cost without affecting the sound integrity and stability of the building which people thought we were building an upstairs.

these are just some pics of the project some weeks back, hope to update the tread from the start to the update. Presently POP work is ongoing, cement artwork is ongoing, door installation, stone art work. we will showcase all these later.

Project Description : One Unit of 3-bedroom bungalow with attached 2 rooms maids quarter. In more details, this building consist of the 1. entry porche, ante room, visitor toilet, main lounge, Guest room, elevated dinning with lobby that flows into the kitchen, the kitchen is like figure 8 in shape having 2 sections flow into each other, one part is cooking area, the other is area is for kitchen equipments, store, family private lounge, master bedroom, children's room, 2 maids room with one bath & toilet and kitchenet.

Location: Magboro off lagos-ibadan express road.

Project Engineer: Abidoy venture

Project Manager: The client

Project Duration: 14 weeks

Project Start Date: January 15 (Land investigation, Purchase and design inclusive)

Project Status: Almost at Completion.

Project Completion date: April 30

This tread is for us to learn from a client of mine who successfully manage this wonderful project to achieve best quality output, within stipulated time, i am sure you will be amazed how much money she saved for being highly prudent, resilient and active on this project, record keeping excellence.
Well she is a Nairalander per excellence, she will answer most of your question so that you too can be great in DIY (do it yourself). I may answer some technical question anyway as the case may be.

Sit back and watch the pictures speaks as house grow. Wishing you a happy viewing and succesful completion of your own project.

More finishin work to commence soon.

Gone! RIP

[quote author=Farm+]I have a project at Warewa just before Arepo (when u are coming from Berger (Lagos)). Its a duplex. I will like you to handle the precast parapet. The external dimention is 19m X 12.5m.

How much will you take if
a. You are providing all the materials and labour including scarfold
b. If I am providing all the materials

How long will it take to finish the project - the parapet?[/quote]Sir i have sent a mail to you box. Thnaks

That was a perfect analysis from the friend of the tread. We can travel down. and if we have your roof drawing we can come up with an estimate. our email address is abidoyventures@gmail.com 08023142108

WISHING YOU ALL A WONDERFUL NEW YEAR.