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Happy new year.
You are doing a great job here.
What's the standard spacing between the V-shaped angle metals in razor barbed-wire installation?

Abolarin91:
A good way to start the new year ...work successfullycompleted.

I'm not a building professional though but I sense that the building design is as a result of the shape/size of your land. However, you may ask your architect to still review the plan especially the portions I marked red (window protrusions and dinning wall) whether they are necessary.
Regarding your request, @ Saydfact use to be very helpful in this area but noticed he's been inactive on this forum for some while, I only hope all's well with him. Better still, get a BOQ from a professional.
I wish you speed in your project journey.

Sabibouy:
Hello house, pls help me check this quotation for a 4 bedroom bungalow German floor foundation I got from an engineer

Check this link and other topics by the same Op.

https://www.nairaland.com/7690775/diy-practical-class-estimating-comfortable

Ourown:
Hi Guys, please can anyone point me to a thread or any resources that explains and shows the process of building a bungalow? From foundation to roofing step by step process on best practices and materials to use. I don't mind buying a book if there is one available. I am building my first house and I want to make sure I do everything right and not rely blindly on contractors.

Asides the absence of a store which has earlier been pointed out, I think the design is simple and okay.

Ourown:
Guys can you please review and critique this plan for 3 bedroom bungalow? Thanks

@ Saydfact, compliments of the season. It's been quite some while we felt your presence here. Hope you are doing great?
Kindly help this person making this request.

Alliswell73:
Please, help me look in this quote for parapet precast or concrete fascia; whatever name it applies.

The builder quotes the following materials:

1. Rings triangle—7dozen, 4k per dozen = #28,000
2. 12mm TMT 20 length —#12k×20= #240,000
3. 10mm TMT 6 length — #8500 ×6= #51,000
4. 1/4 rod 18 length —#1600×18=#28,800
5. Sharp sand—#100,000
6. Granite— 15tonnes=#180,000
7. Cement 45bags—10,000×45=#450000
8. Bamboo 50 pcs—1000 per one= #50,000
9. Workmanship #380,000

Total= #1,507,800

Please, help me check the quote if they're not artificially inflated. Also, if the labour cost(workmanship fee) is moderate we can negotiate further.


Thanks.

No prices attached to the items? This is just a list and not a quote.

Alliswell73:
Merry Christmas to all and Happy New Year in advance.

I was given the below quote for a parapet precast.

Help me check if the quote is overpriced or not, including the workmanship.

Thanks.

Is it not the same usual (not TMT) Y12 rods I was told costs 9.5k yesterday that's quoted to be 14.8k here? I did a rough estimate of the cost difference on the required number of Y12 rods alone to be around 752k.
Bros, check well o!

Lampert505:
hello. Good evening guys
I got this decking quotation from my engineer.

How do you guys think I could cut cost pls
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Weldone Philipok.

Keep being honest, it's the best policy in any legitimate business.

sonnie10:
You are doing well. Thanks for this beautiful completed artwork.

This is one of the few here you can give your project and go back and sleep.
After he finished, he even called and handed over all the remaining materials ( including 8 bags of pop cement) . Who does that in Nigeria ?

Highly recommend.

It's obvious you are having a "nice" time with your contractor. If you don't trust the contractor, renegotiate the terms, buy your materials yourself and create time to always be present during their utilisation. Don't allow anyone to pressure you, the house is yours and the money being spent is yours, abi no be so?

You have also been advised to share your floor plan with dimensions to aid contributions from the good people here.

Wish you the best in your project journey.

Alliswell73:
I didn't know. They bought 1000 blocks first

Can you post pictures of your past jobs here let's see? Not pictures of others' work.

Elvisdtiler:
Am available..
Call me
09118255696

Clean job as usual. Weldone.

I noticed there are openings at the edges, any reason for this?

Do you screed Pop ceiling immediately after installation with the same cement or you use another material?

cash1115:
Active 100%
Available for your job

I think the polystyrene should be cost effective. I have just installed POP on an approximately 80sqm space, it cost me 30 bags Pop cement, 42kg fillers, 3kg binding wire, and other materials like soaps, groundnut oil, nails. Was charged #1,300/sqm for labour for simple designs. Check the costs of all these and compare with the polystyrene quotation you got.

bet9ja:
Good people of Nairaland. I need advise on my building project - It has gotten to the Ceiling stage, I am contemplating between POP and Polystyrene, Please which one is cost effective. I have approximately 80 sqrm.

Even though I am not an architect but I feel this design could be better. See my suggestions:
1. Try and fit the toilets in between any two nearest bedrooms especially at the east end.
2. You may also consider reducing the ante room size.
Best of luck in your building journey.

@ saydfact, please help say something about this plan.

iamMoshood:
Guys, I'm planning to start my family house building project next week. It's 4-bedroom with a security house. Please help me assess this plan. The available land is one plot.

Hello brother,
please help with this.
Thanks.

Beframia:
Hello,
Pls what's the quantity of POP materials needed for 80 sqm ceiling space... very simple design?

Hello,
Pls what's the quantity of POP materials needed for 80 sqm ceiling space... very simple design?

Bros, go there yourself and get the windows fixed. It's really bad that he got a shoddy job in exchange for his hard earned money.

Adedward:
GOOD pm brother, am very sorry, I just sent money to my boy, he will come tomorrow to rectify what u complain sir, thanks, am very sorry once again, thanks

Nice one Rotecch77! I'm glad you realised you weren't doing the right thing by "throwing" random statements. I always laugh when a particular set of my female colleagues indulge in that anytime they have misunderstanding with somebody.
Don't you think you should still reach out to that "someone" and try to iron out your differences? You ain't doing badly and your brand is going places.

rotecch77:
Thanks so much Chief I really appreciated.
As they says; No smoke without fire” someone pushed me to this but I will reverse back to my original Character bcs of someone like you and my esteemed clients which i can’t leave without them.

In this life you just need to “ Do your best and leave the rest” you can’t pleased everybody as we all know.

Shout out to All our Esteemed
-Clients
- followers
- friends
- well wishers
May Almighty God be with you all.

Don’t forget we deal in building construction and maintenance coupled with sales of plumbing stuffs

My brother, you just spoke my mind. People's way of reasoning these days never cease to amaze me.

FEGEITOK:
Some people are very full of themselves...won't mention names but their words speaks volumes of the persons behind the monikers

See the workings below:

*House base area= 9.6 * 9.6= 92.16sqm
*Eaves = 0.5m (see what it means in the image in the link I shared with you).

*Pitch = 4.2/4.8 = 0.875 (where 4.2 is kingpost height and 4.8 is half of the width of the house)
Convert 0.875 to fraction with 12 as denominator... which gives 10.5/12 approximately 11/12 .... This is the roof pitch.

Input house base area, eaves and roof pitch in the calculator to get 155.2 sqm.

*Multiply 155.2 by the correction factor of 1.357 which corresponds to 11/12 roof pitch (scroll to the bottom of the calculator page).
Ans is 210.6064 sqm.

This is not an absolute answer, it is subject to corrections and criticism.

Reeefe:
Lols abeg tell me how ohhh

Here's your answer: 210.6064sqm

Don't ask me how I arrived at this because the assumptions plenty and the process long.

Reeefe:
Here is a sample of the result. Ideally this is a 190 to 210 sqm job. I have done something similar before

This link should give you a close estimate.

Reeefe:
Hello house please I'm trying to calculate the sqm for a roof.
Can someone put me tru?

The Kingspost is 14ft (height)
The length is 32ft
The width is 32ft

It's a hip roof

rotecch77 please what is the format for this calculation?

I saw a few examples on YouTube but the results in the calculation isn't giving me a correct Sqm

Rany4all:
I think what he was implying is that they'll use the client's cement to refill the empty bags they bought and then return the client's empty bags with signatures to him. So they can sell the cement in the bags they bought as opened or half bags, while still returning the client's empty bags with his signatures.

You are right bros, that's the implication. For the client to put signatures on cement bags, it shows the level of distrust he has for the artisan. For the artisan to still empty the contents of signed bags into another empty bag in order to make away with it... That artisan must be an irredeemable cro0k.

kopell:
Please don't generalize, there a lot of good people here that handle projects of over 100 million without any issue. Many of them are so busy they don't even have time to update their profile regularly. Always do your due diligence before commiting your hard earn money to just anybody

toyeoye:
Still NEVER trust anyone no matter track record. Even saints are cutting corners in this economy.

It still baffles me why some people would still want to cheat their clients - cutting corners in jobs or during materials procurement by buying substandard/incomplete materials, even after being paid full for the agreed labour/service charge.
I can't remember where I saw a post about a client that signs his signature on every bag of cement to be used in a particular day, the site supervisor/bricklayer is expected to return the empty signed bags to the client at the end of the day. Do we think this will curb the incidence of cement theft at the site?

For the roofing woods estimate, this guy - Hslbroker2 used to give estimates but don't know if he's still an active NL user. Procarpenter is active and should also be able to do justice to that too.
For roofing/roofing sheets, Money121 is the household name here.
Please note that I've never done business with any of them, hence the need to still do your due diligence.
All the best.

Celepope:
My Ogas them in the house. I have built my house up to roofing stage. My contractor have been bleeding me seriously because I am not on ground nor any siblings of mine to monitor this my project. He practically charges me double based on the information I have gotten from this thread with the excuse that things are now expensive. Is there a way I can be able to ascertain the square meter of the roof size to be able to know the amount of wood needed for the woodwork and the square meter to determine the roofing sheet (shingle black) I will be needing for this building? The attached drawings are the only ones he gave me. He said he can’t give me the exact or estimated square footage of the roof until after the woodwork. How true is this? An approximation even if not 100% accurate, of the square meter this house will need for roofing will highly be appreciated.

horlabiyi:
My Oga I don come again ooo. We are moving the plastering level for my building and the bricklayer is telling we are going to use 90-95 bags for both in and out. Is that not too much? Money no dey

90-95 bags of cement for a 3-4 b/r bungalow?
That's too much. I plastered a 4 b/r ensuite recently with 68 bags.
Your bricklayer should check well o ... Money no dey.

horlabiyi:
Glory be to God. I’ve roofed the building 387sqm Milano at the rate of 6200

Very neat and beautiful job.
Congratulations and more wins for you.

Thanks.

michlins:
The job has been completed and painted

Nice and neat delivery as usual.
What tank capacity can this carry?
Can you also give a breakdown of the materials that completed this?

Do the joints (or edges) need to be secured using wooden batons like the old asbestos ceiling we know? Could you please share a pic of your installation?

VanuatuWycombe:
It’s good for wall cladding too, both internal and external. That’s what we are using on our current project. Installation is on DIY basis since we have all tools and consumables needed.

No need of screeding again. Just look for good paint sprayer like the one we are using - Wagner HEA Airless Sprayer.
You can also by Gaco/Magnum too, if you have the cash.
There are China-made sprayers too on the market.

There's this option of using plaster board/gypsum board. Do you have any idea about its usage or is it the same as fiber cement?

diordaves:
I don't have a personal picture unfortunately but here are some from the internet.

Do you have a sample pic of an installed fiber cement ceiling? Kindly share if you do.

diordaves:
Nigerite fibre cement is cheaper to install with minimal screeding of the joints to have a continuous finish.

However, if you now wish to over engineer it to have organic finish like installed POP, you might as well do POP as it would cost you more at the end of the day.

Fibre cement is for a clean, simple modern budget ceiling solution.

I would prefer this method to any other for under deck POP installations. Thanks for bringing this up.

OnMyHonor:
Woods get weak or eaten from the inside, by those bloody Wood Ants, despite treating the Wood with Solignum, before noggin!

Another [b]Option, if someone knows they are doing POP, the necessary thing to do, is to provide 10mm Iron Rod Ready-Hooks embedded in the Decking, at the Concrete Deck Construction stage (like we do Fan Hooks into the Decking at that stage), you can now hang your Pop to such hooks.[/b]
No matter how heavy or how much you attach to it, it will stay-up like that, as long as the job is properly done by a qualified Installer and they use adequate Cementing/POP material.