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Congrats bro! I pray for more provisions to complete it speedily. Roofing is a significant milestone in any building project. Why not share pics for us to see.

Gallybounce:
thank you sir.

I’ve just completed the roofing ,
Everything cost me around 3.3m plus or minus .

I spent 840k for woods ( ayin ), nails, chemical for spraying , knapsack , transportation and workmanship ..
I spent 1.9m naira for 390 sqm of stone coated black Milano plus accessories, transportation and workmanship
I spent 460k for the parapet and workmanship ( these guys did a great job ) .

While the roofing was going on , I felt like I wasted money ( spent around 3.3m to roof 3bedroom ( two sitting room) flat). I Thought I shoulda added small change and buy correct lexus ..
But when it completed omo I’m really really satisfied .. as in I love it so so much . So beautiful .


Another downside is that the area is not yet developed to what I’m used to and it looks odd, bush bush everywhere ., but I don do am I don do am. Tbh na force dem force me o



Once again , thank you and God bless everyone of us . Amen..

Seconded.

kopell:
Hello sir, after appreciate efforts in my opinion. I think you should show him love with tip as well. These guys take their time to give us most of this information free of charge. Some of us that appreciate them, we show them love with an appreciation combine. We most understand they have family to feed. Tope thank you.

Gallybounce:
Good day boss and bosses.

I just finished with the parapet and I think it’s right about being at the site with the workers for proper monitoring.. The parapet guy quoted 45 bags of cements and 45 cutter rods. Believe me, I bought 45 bags and he only used 25 bags for every thing.. I saved 20 bags already. I bought just 30 length of rods and it’ was enough .




That being said, I’m about to do the roofing and I also want to use stone coated shingles

My carpenter quotation is beyond my power. He justified it with original woods are expensive .


i want to ask if it is compulsory for the carpenter to go buy it? How can I avoid buying fake woods?



I’ll be going to get it on Monday hopefully ..

And finally, how can I spot the original stone coated gerard? and is it advisable to go buy directly from factory ??


Finally he charged me 200k for roofing of 3bedroom flat..

Pls help ..

You needn't be in too much haste if your goal is to save cost. Get quotations from one or two more carpenters and compare.
Speak to anyone that's recently roofed his house because wood types are always dependent on your location, also find time to visit the wood market alone to do your survey and discuss with some of the wood dealers on quality and cost.
I got two carpenters for quotations, the first quoted 160 timbers, workmanship for 130k (rafter and roof installation) while the 2nd quoted 130 timbers, same workmanship for 150k. I decided to purchase just 95 timbers for the 2nd carpenter with the plan of buying more if not enough, you won't believe that the 95 timbers were enough with some leftovers - a similar case with your parapet's.
For the original stone coated Gerard, why not give money121 here the job as I'm yet to read any negative review about him.
Finally, you may also share your building plan here for the seasoned pros here to advise.
The above advice may not be the best but is based on my experience after I made up my mind to be monitoring my projects myself.
Best of luck.

I guess this upper floor on the shops wasn't part of the initial plan. I like the good space management. What's going to be up there?

spyder880:
Forming and raising the walls of the upper floor on top of the shops............

KolaShangOne:
My NL people.. you won't believe how much I did this tank stand..

It's for a bungalow and meant to carry just one tank between 1000 - 1500 litres.

I got a quote from one of the local welders for around 600k.
Did it for a lot less than (that title of Chimamanda's book about the sun?).

If you can decode, you will understand

You just mentioned the relationship between cost saving and quality and I remembered process optimization in one of my engineering classes. Would you be gracious enough to share with us a breakdown of the costs/materials involved? Thanks.

Weldone topsy23 for your selflessness. I'm impressed at how you make effort towards answering every question raised here that relates to your area of expertise (and those that do not but you have an idea). I'm sure am not the only one on here observing this.
Never mind, the hand that washed others should also expect to be washed.

topsy23:
Location of the Septic/Soakaway is not to us but I believe the 100mm pipe is good since the plumber is running a separate pipes for both soil and waste

Other water supply also can not be question because the your location and over tank will determine tye quantity to be used/installed .

Hamtabfawaz, Bolu1986, your call.

Olusharp:
Please I am new to this.. How does POP work and how much should one plan for a 3 bedroom...

Timely info.
Thanks.

MrOkenwa:
I bought some locally made tiles in Abeokuta ( victory and goodwill) 4 days ago.
The prices are given per carton, not sqm.

kitchen wall = 2900

Toilet wall = 2800

Toilet floor = {40*40} 3800

Kitchen floor = {40*40} 3800

Sitting room, entrance porch and rooms = {40*40} 4400(victory).
Goodwill is 4300. There are some for 3800, which are the plain ones.

Go and do the pricing yourself. If you go with your tiler and he's known to them at the outlet, they'll add 50 or 100 per carton for him. They added 100 for us but we were ahead of them. Imagine paying that for over 500 cartons. He doesn't need to give them any signal. Some tilers too loiter around the outlets too. If you involve them in selecting a good tiles and all that, the sales person might add the tiler's rebate to the price they'll give you.

I'm paying 400 naira per sqm.

Weldone oga Spyder.
This roof installation is really neat and beautiful.
Just a quick question please: what's the roofing sheet guage used and its price per sqm?
Thanks.

spyder880:
All the roofing of this house has been fully completed 100%.............

All the plumbing piping works has also been fully completed.

These colors are beautiful. The painter did a great job.

rotecch77:
Painting of this our project is still going on

https://www.nairaland.com/3092553/construction-6bd-contemporary-duplex-2bd

Oga Spyder880,

Would you advise that one completely finish the plastering/dressing of parapet before the installation of roof carcass prior to roofing? I'm asking because I felt the vibration caused by the carpenters' hitting of woods might cause cracks in the already plastered parapet.

spyder880:
Final parapet fascia plastering pictures..........

I am a silent follower of virtually all your projects here and I must say you are doing excellently well. I'm also impressed by how you take your time to attend to all questions and enquiries. It's not everyone that understands that attending to questions open your eyes to some hidden things which makes you better in your field of endeavor.
Keep doing good my brother.

Dennis3D:
Keep following up.
We are resuming other site activities here next week

Front Fence Works and Piping works LOADING

Let me refer you to this thread:

https://www.nairaland.com/2550211/general-topic-thread-to-discuss-anything/3011#2550211.96382

And this engineer: spyder880

Akerewe:
Well done Chief Engineer av bn following ur thread keenly nd I av few questions to ask about this ongoing project.

1. What's d size of iron Rod used
2. What's the total size of this land
3. How many pillars are in this building before decking
4. What's the cost of decking alone including the labourer, the mason, the planks used and d total workmanship for the decking alone
5. Did u use 9" inches blocks throughout the first floor building before the decking.

Thanks in anticipation of your earliest possible response

Bro, just a little correction ... It's "Still in stock" not "still in shock"
God bless your hussle.

Blessedsunny2:
Still in shock Spanish product
blessed sunny global Spanish dealer

You are doing well sir. Weldone.

Jeff68:
Exterior painting ongoing,,.pictures coming soon

Whew! This is beautiful, will love to see the installation process.

spyder880:
We're making some doors for the bathrooms, these are hung roller barn doors

Don't do 0.45mm guage steptiles or metcoppo corrugation to avoid leaking issues. That's the headache Kolashangone is referring to.
Just go for longspan jejely if it's going to be 0.45mm. Most aluminum gauges are no more what they used to be.
You are doing well in your project, weldone.

redgem:
Can you please tell me the conditions? I am currently chatting with someone in Lagos, she said she supplies bozac aluminium earlier but now she is saying it's Authentic aluminium (brand name) she supplies. Her company's name is Bamaco. She doesn't have black color for metcoppo 0.45mm and that is what I want.. Their office is at Pleasure Bustop Abeokuta Express Way after Iyana Ipaja..
Money121 doesn't supply less than 0.55mm, I wasn't happy when I got to know cos since I started following this thread, I wanted to buy from him (cos I trust him).. Its hard to find trustworthy online vendors

Saw this post somewhere ...

Nigerians are Nigeria's problem.

Talking about pure leather, I'll speak to a friend who works in a leather research establishment. I'll post a feedback as soon as I can.

Born2conquer:
I think you can only get pure leather in the north

They skin every animal they slaughter for meat and they sun dry the skin for leather, I see them every market day

Wow!
Clean straight lines everywhere.
This is beautiful!
Weldone sir!

EgunMogaji2:
Status

Can see it's really going on beautifully well.
Weldone sir.

EgunMogaji2:
How it’s going.

Bros,
Take this matter offline, speak to rotecch and your client, reach an agreement on what you will pay and how you will pay. Forget about who is right or wrong, put aside ego or pride, a concrete agreement/settlement may not necessarily be the QS' report - from my perception of your client, he seems to be a kind person. By the time you achieve this, you channel your energy into other things more productive, unless you derive pleasure in controversies, I wouldn't know.
Kopell and Greenarrow01 have said alot on this matter today.

n3xt:
Interestingly we do talk and I won’t want to share some of their conversations here.

They were even asking me “How do you make profit from your projects?”

If you doubt me, I’d share screenshot of my conversation with one of the contractors who bid for the contract.

He might be a double-faced person or true to his word but I know we do chat all the time.

I like this...
Thank you.

FEGEITOK:
As an aside from purely property matters, and in the light of the undercurrents, and some of the thank you posts here in the last days of 2021 and the early days of 2022, I thought it wise to make the statement below.

In 2019, Bernardine Evaristo won the Booker Prize for Girl, Woman, Other category alongside Margaret Atwood. I watched a BBC program that rehashed that story a few hours ago.

Somethings stood out.

President Obama said that one of the books he uses as an escape from the pressures of the presidency was Bernardine Evaristo's book. Imagine the President of the most powerful country recommending your book.

Bernardine Evaristo has returned the favor she has been granted by been digging up authors who she felt were overlooked and trying to spotlight them and because a Booker Prize winner is the one making the recommendation people were taking notice.

The authors she recommended were extremely grateful that someone of her stature propped them up.

The point is this, if you are a vendor on these streets, be careful what fights you get into, some fights are not worth it. Don't bite your nose to spite your face.

Pick your fights carefully.

Be willing to lose money to make more money in the future.

Be willing to create, sustain and maintain goodwill.

A word, a note, a recommendation can land you a million naira or dollar deal even a billion-dollar deal.

A word, a note, a caution can also deny you a million naira or dollar deal even a billion-dollar deal.

Sometimes you need someone up there to open doors that would otherwise remain closed.

Don't allow people who would otherwise open doors for you to actively force doors that would otherwise be opened to remain closed.

Relationships are the most valuable resource for success.

I do contracts and all of my biggest contracts came to me when someone above my pay stamped his/her foot down and said give this guy this deal.

If people don't like you, they will not deal.

Don't give people a reason not to like you, and then not deal with you and encourage/goad/persuade others not to deal with you.

A word is enough for the wise.

Yes, it's not a dedicated thread to that particular build but the pictures he attached explained the process.

folmus:
You have to scroll down the page

Rather than not doing German flooring at all especially on perceived stable and hard soils, I'll suggest the method adopted by muyi002 in attached link, it's a cost-saving alternative that can mitigate against the damp wall issue due to capillary action of water.

https://www.nairaland.com/muyi002/posts/7

FEGEITOK:
Notes on German floor for the gentleman up there, see also https://www.nairaland.com/3630752/cement-sand-granite-concrete-mix#53736651

I can see you are really racing against time.

Clean job!

bolu1986:
https://www.nairaland.com/6564561/pop-design-tv-wall-installation

For your pop, wall screeding, pre cast paraphet, tv walls
Get in touch…

Thumbs up sir!

spyder880:
Ok, I will look into these suggestions, but I am afraid of using wood because of its relatively lower period of durability. Such heights are not places you will have time to be maintaining everytime. A hood is not also a good option, it will make the vent too prominent and might draw attention away from the beauty of the building.

However, I made sure the sealing is too tight, even a small cockroach cannot easily get into the vents. I will show more pictures when they are completed and painted.

Welcome.

I hope this bathroom will get a shower cubicle to contain splashed water because I can't imagine "our" client going through the stress of mopping up that large floor area after every bath.
N.B. "Our" client because I've been following since day one of this project. Remember I even offered to contribute an entrance door? ... Lol

spyder880:
Bathroom space, work in progress......

Great job you are doing oga Spyder. I have a little observation/suggestion - The air vent finishing doesn't look appealing enough. Is there no way the hollows for that particular portion could be filled/covered to avoid something crawling out of it someday? Also, the edges can be dressed (like a window hood) to look more appealing and not look like an old village window. As against the usual POP and cement options, you may consider using flat, treated and polished wood for this purpose. In fact, the wood when installed properly with the gauze can address the two concerns.

spyder880:
Time to seal up the air vents with wire gauze........

The family knows who they sold the land to yet they're calling to ask him if he wants to resell. That's the essence of the warning so that if the seller has an ulterior motive of reselling it, the prospective buyer will be prompted to ask questions. Meanwhile, his registered survey, c of o, or whatever processing should have commenced.

hslbroker2:
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This u said can't solve anything.

The family's knows who they sold land to, the first thing is registered survey, c of o, before fencing if u are wise