₦airaland Forum

diordaves:
Sorry to read about this. Don't wonder if artisans can't read or write. They can't. This is where the services of a tertiary educated/COREN trained engineer comes into play.

I will go for blocks, the old fashioned bricks and mortar. The plaster board option could be more expensive and less effective with the current state of affairs. Why?

If you took out the section of the wall to increase the room space, this is doable but you need to strengthen that same section to prevent the roof from caving in. I'm not sure if you did all round chaining, even if you did, the beam span of the taken out wall need to be looked by a structural engineer to confirm if it will support the roof. Block walls are not only for partitioning but do support the roof. So take out a wall, you create another problem.

Now you talked about plaster board partitioning as done in the UK/USA. For such scenario, you need to introduce a Rolling Steel Joint, that's is RSJ steel beam to support the roof first, then the stud partitioning, then sound proofing and then, finally the plaster board. See photos. The last photo is a finished living area, look properly at the ceiling, you would notice the hanging RSJ. That section of the wall was taken out to open up the living room for more space.

For your stud partitioning, you need 2×4 termites resistant treated hardwood. These don't come cheap in Nigeria. You also need the RSJ. By the time you factor in all these with the cost of expertise labour, you have made the remedy so complicated and expensive where a simple cheap brick and mortar will do just fine. It is a simple process of shifting the wall outward. Block work is a superior solution.

I will go for blocks partitioning anyday, anytime in Nigeria. It is cheap, fire resistant, sound proof and built to last with minimal maintenance.

wristbangle:
Saw this prediction in a trance.

Nigeria 2 - 1 Argentina

rabcnesbit:
Good day house. Hope you are all well. I need your advise please. I visited my building for the first time since the work started (building is now nearly completed - roofing and plastering already done, but thank God floor tiling not already done yet). Despite the fact that paid for an approved building plan, the builders still got most of the internal measurements wrong! I am just baffled and completely speechless! How difficult is it to read the measurements in a plan and follow it! I wonder whether some of these building artisans can actually read and write! The worst of it all is the master bedrooms in the downstairs flats. Believe me that I am not exaggerating that you will struggle to put in a double bed (forget a king size) and you won't have any room left for even a small dressing table, and the space they demarcated for wardrobe is only wide enough for a single wardrobe. I mean this is meant to be the master bedroom for the Mr and Mrs, and you can only squeeze in a single wardrobe! Anyway, to cut a long story short, I am thinking of breaking one side of the wall (the one demarcating the room from the corridor) and extend it out a bit.
For some reason, the stupid people made the corridor as wide as a football field at the expense of the room, so there is space to extend the wall out). My big question is that (too cut down on costs) can I use plaster board partition, like they use in the UK, US etc, for the new internal wall, which is just one side), instead of blocks. Or is this something they do not use/do in Nigeria? Thank you.

amstamon:
I've Been Wrongly Accused By My Very Best Friend And I Don't Know What To Do

I just don't know what to do at the moment, I'm so emotionally down and confused.

A friend who's birthday was today, decided to host us at a bar close by. On getting there, I greeted everyone but noticed he was quiet and moody.

30 mins later, he asked that we should meet outside. next thing I heard was that I was sleeping with her girlfriend. I tried to prove my innocence but it all fell in deaf ears. with anger,I left without telling anyone.

An hour later, he called and was like "someone saw both of us(I and the girlfriend) coming out of my apartment".
I don't know how to prove my innocence and please I really need you guys input on this matter.
I don't know how to make him believe me.
I know my writing is bad, but that's not what matters for now.

Please I seriously need your advice guys.
I swear with my life and father's grave I cannot do such

dazzlingd:
They are working for God ...labour for God is free, only the pastors are chosen to enjoy the dividends of tithing

lawman88:
Well, as a lawyer, you made a serious mistake. There is a fierce legal implications of what you did and you may be jailed despite they are owing you salaries. What you did is called fraud and there is no excuse for fraud.

The best thing you would have done was to contact a lawyer to write a letter to your firm giving them a time frame to pay up your salaries. If they refused, them your lawyer will take legal action.

What you did, you may loose both your salaries and the company may even frame you up that you diverted millions of naira to your personal use which may end you in jail.

My advice: Remit all the money with you, then tell them to pay up your salaries. If they refused, get a lawyer to write to them and if they still refused, go to court while still working for them. Don't resign, if they sack you while the case is in court, it will be to your advantage.

Ayo25:
Please lawyers in the house I seek your advice and help over my tussle with my firm.
They have concluded plans at my firm to arrest my guarantors. The same firm that is owing me backlog of salaries would go after my guarantors because at some point when delay in payment of salaries became unbearable for me, I decided to stop remitting whatever I made from my production for them until I am paid by them.
By the companys standard it is wrong, but there was no way I could manage the situation and as a matter of fact you need money to make money for them which if your production was not up to scratch you will be queried. So because I could not secure another job I remained in the job. At the initial stage I would go out of way to make money for them and remit everything but at the end of the month, bang there would be a deafening silence. No salary. The situation became so bad that at some point I was owed five months.
So I decided enough is enough. So I began to withold the money I made from my productions for them until they pay me too. I decided on this course of action especially because I heared that what they did to people in time past is that after owing staffs for months, they will now pay lets say four out of nine months and brazenly tell you to forget the remaining five or go to court. I do not want to feel used by anybody or firm so I decided that at every point in time I must be with some of their money. So I wont be on the receiving end if they put up any funny behaviour.
So some weeks ago the firm eventually discovered what I have been up to. I was asked to submit all their equipments which I did.
So they demanded that I pay up all what I am owing them. When I did my calculation, they are owing me a little bit more than I am owing them. I asked to be paid my entitlements too. They insist I should pay them first. Someone in their ranks exposed their insecerity that I have been sacked and will not be paid anything if I obliged them and Pay up their money.
They started cajoling me to pay. I offered that they should deduct their their money from my salaries with them.
They rejected flatly and said they will be going to arrest my guarantors.
Lawyers in the house please advise me on how to go about this. I dont want them to go near my guarantors at all.

pizapato:
I've noticed a lot of confusion about granite and gravel.

Based on knowledge of geology, granite is not limestone.

Granite is an igneous rock, while limestone is a sedimentary rock. Most people now use crushed granite (or the slightly métamorphosed equivalent "granite gneiss" ) as aggregate in concrete, I don't know if limestone can also be used.

Gravel can be derived in two ways, some are deposited just like sand and where they can be mined. They usually consist of different types rock fragments which have been eroded, transported (reason why they are usually rounded) and deposited in the current location. Rock fragment present might included, granite, quartzite, gneiss, iron stone e.t.c and many other rock type. The other type that is also referred to as gravel is quartzite rock which is usually massive, But require less effort to break due to the presence of high amount of fracture. It sometimes occur with laterite (weathering of the rock produces laterite)

abbeycial:
thanks a lot bro...I have ordered for granite.
I sincerely appreciate your guide.

thanks a lot.

but seems the granite varies cuz I have seen them with different sizes(small Powdery and a little big ones almost the size of gravel)

abeg which one is the best.
cc

Rubbiish:
@bold...No one is a paragon
Except u haven't gone wrong for once in ur field of practice
Even professors do go wrong....

Rubbiish:
What u described is pebble, gravel is chunky and jagged.

Rubbiish:
It's been long i saw someone use gravel, those who can't afford granite, now use stone base in place of granite.

lagosrd:
you won't learn anything this way. Either you agree or not. The truth remains that the architect leads the pack. Except otherwise where other professionals are selected as project manager in such site and such person must be a professional project manager. And not one road side baba Jamiu parading himself an engineer. Most times professionals don't know their boundary. They tends to want a to correct the architects design which is not possible. They don't like challenges that will change the status quo

lagosrd:
Read my next post. And be enlightened. Someone must lead the pack.

lagosrd:
The use of building codes begins with the planners, architects before the engineers.

Daboomb:
P-L-E-A-SE ...DONT BE TEMPTED! DONT USE GRAVEL!! DONT DO IT!!!
HOLD-ON AND SAVE MORE.
YOU WILL ALWAYS BE WORRIED, EACH TIME YOU REMEMBER WHAT YOU DID.
THIS IS A TWO STOREY, NOT A BUNGALOW!
ITS BETTER TO SPEND EXTRA AND HAVE PEACE OF MIND, THAN TO BE SORRY!
IT IS VERY EAASY FOR DECKS TO COLLAPSE, BECAUSE OF THE WEIGHT THEY HAVE TO SUPPORT!
REMEMBER, LIFE HAS NO DUPLICATE.
LET THOSE THAT HAVE EARS.........HEAR.
MAY GOD GIVE YOU WISDOM.


NB: I was 'shouting' intentionally (All Caps), because l want youto hear me.
Something in me is ringing an alarm bell right now and over time, my hunch rarely goes wrong!
PLEASE, l take God beg you.

dejavus:
Any advise on Floor tiles, Is Vitrify good enough without breaking the bank? Any reliable suppliers in Ibadan?

Thanks in advance.

KingRabota:
My friend, we're talking about BUILDING codes. These codes are designed and implemented by professionals WHO should be thoroughly grounded in Engineering practice. The job of an architect is to DESIGN he's like an artist, his work is to draw a beautiful looking structure. The engineer looks at those drawings and using his scientific n Technical background brings them to life.
It's very common in nigeria for architects to design and supervise. In case you didn't know this is a CRIMINAL OFFENCE!
If during site inspection it is discovered that an architect is supervising the project. It can lead to a jail term. Come to think of it. If a mechanical engineer or any other engineer who ISN'T a Civil engineer is discovered supervising a construction site. He/she will have their practising licence revoked and will face prosecution(ask the petrochemical engineer who supervised TB joshua's collapsed castle ,talk less of an over glorified draughtsman.
Fashola is a lawyer. He has ZERO idea of what it takes to run an Engineering establishment.
Politicians have stolen the jobs of Engineers because, engineering projects are capital intensive.
By the time we start placing round pegs in round holes (Minister of Works. Housing is an engineer) maybe then we will start seeing better and higher quality infrastructural projects

Bullhari007:
how much Dangote is selling cement in 2015 and how much is he selling a bag now Dangote is their paddy let them talk to their man... only delusionist believe they are out of recession, until I see it in the price of commodities then will I believe

oscarmedia:
Hello house , I’m currently working on a project which was meant to be 2 units of 2 bedroom apartments but along the line plans changed and I plan to use it for 4 units of 1 bedroom mini flats . Is there any need to reinforce the German floor with rods due to the change or can I get away with just casting since it’s a bungalow?

abbeycial:
So am I safe to use it for decking slabs for a two storey building with 4 units of 2 bedroom flats?am really tempted due to finacial constraints.

I would also appreciate if I can be enlightened on any additional fortification required for the above.

abbeycial:
Wow!
The gravel idea was sold to me by one of my neighbors who also has a two storey building he developed in same area(4 units of 2 bedroom flats).
Was doubting the reliability of gravel over granite when it comes to decking thus I threw it to the house for clarification.

For the ply wood,I would just drop the idea.
I can't faint.

abbeycial:
Bonjour my brothers.

Kinda confused and I need your advice.

Can I use gravel for a decking project?Though I know granite is the standard been used but due to constraints on my financial muscle,I wish to know the side effect if a two bedroom twin flat is decked using gravel instead of granite.

Secondly,can I use ply woods supported with bamboo sticks to hold the decking instead of the normal 1 by 12 planks?

Thanks.

Rubbiish:
Accurate.
Same with what i was told.
But u didn't add kingpost sir

Daboomb:
No Sir!

They usually use 2' x 4" for it, not 2 x 6.

Some Carpenters can 'manage' 2 x 3 for it though this is not advisable.

maxiuc:
Same issue here with Skye bank i transferred 25k to a uba bank account the AtM machines said issuer error I was debited of 25k I called my brother to check if he has gotten alert he said no so I sent to his Bank to verify if he's having a pending transaction but nothing

Now I went to Skye bank to complain the said I should wait that after 24hrs it will reverse back now 24hours gone no alerts the customer care Lady gave me a form to fill which I did now asking her how long it will take to reverse my money she said 1or 2weeks please everyone how that possible I need urgent answer because tomorrow am going there

desiji:
Okay we are still thinking & still using our Nigerian metality, my Mercedes should and must be bigger than yours, must he buy one with a complete coverage of everything or only the necessary things. We have solar as big and as small as one wants and to Batteries he just needs to get the right ones (i.e LIFEPO4) , Tesla PowerWall, infact batteries are getting better and longer life span as before. Where i stay you have houses used only as Sommer residence and only powered with Solar if Alhaji permits i might post pictures.
It is a pity the Govt, is not Subsidizing this Energy source where i live you tell the Govt you are interested in Solar come and see how much Subsidies and incentives they start to give.