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https://walbrent.com/2012/01/21/persistent-construction-myth/

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https://gineersnow.com/engineering/bamboo-poised-replace-steel-reinforced-concret

https://blog.allplan.com/en/carbon-concrete

lorhema:
I'll appreciate your responses. I want to understand what is required.
We use a submersible pump for our well and it pumps the water into the overhead tank. Do we expect the same for the borehole? It's not close to the overhead tank. It's about 12-15 metres away.
Will the borehole submersible pump do or is another surface pump required?
The borehole is 70m deep and the overhead tank is about 4m high.

Thank you.

Every drilled borehole will be accompanied by a submersible pump which is installed within the bored hole.
As long as your piping works runs from the borehole to the overhead tank that will do.

Surface pumps serves different purposes.
If there is a need for that your plumber will inform you.

If you have not been using a surface pump while you pump water from your well to the overhead tank, I see no reason to use it now given that you have a borehole.

fabulous85:
good day house,
pls is 0.45 guage suitable for stone coat roofing sheet. trying to roof my house but all the sellers i called in kaduna have only 0.45.

When it comes to using stone coated roofing tiles, the gauge should not be a concern because that is not where the quality lies.


The quality is in the name of the manufacturer.
Not every warranty is a guarantee.
Just be careful.

I have seen a 3 storey building that collapsed because the client who happened to a Professor in one of the pure sciences turned out to be the Engineer and Supervisor and Project Manager.


It is because of this our so called Professionalism that makes certain clients turn to other alternatives which end up good and bad in some instances.

Nothing stops one from speeching without trying to talk down another just because you need a job.

A Professional does not tell people that he is but his work(s) speaks for it self.

diordaves:
It's good to engage for educational and constructive reasons. Rotecch77 said and I quote 'only professional plumber can handle this" .

Maybe I got the term "professional plumber" wrong. My thinking is all plumbers are professionals, so by qualifying "plumber" with "professional" it's seems to me there are some plumbers who are not professional, so can't handle the job. Is your interpretation different from mine? A non professional plumber is a fake or am I wrong?

And then you asked how a professional plumber would handle it and this just got me thinking: how would a non professional plumber handle it as home owners are prone to cutting corners by all too often engaging the DIY route or as someone once said baba Lati.

I asked a simple question and I got a reply .
I stopped there.


I am not bored now, so i'll not comment about it.

diordaves:
I was expecting you to ask why should a non professional plumber handle any job at all? Is a non professional not a pretender after any profession?

Do you really want me to engage you in this discuss or probably this thread is bored and so lets catch some fun?

rotecch77:
Yes, but only professional plumber can handle this

Explain how a non professional plumber will go about it?

aonag:
i dont have this experience on this scale. i have made bulk orders online from China and had them imported via air but thats different from going there myself and buying items myself. its still in consideration phase as i am thinking of the modalities
e.g consolidating different good from different manufacturers, logistics to the container location and most especially shipping costs to the final point of consolidation into the container and also if the container space has to be paid for in the prriod in ehich its taking in all these goods till its filled up. my parents were importers and have experience but they mainly bought from one manufacturer. i would have to talk to my mum about this.

Buying from different manufacturers isn't much of a problem.
Just know the shipping company address you intend using. As you buy from each manufacturer you can tell them which company is handling the shipping. They will package and send it to the company with your details on it. You may likely pay some extra for that.
But since you'll be there, be sure your goods are packaged well and you can monitor some of the activities. Some might be stressful but its worth it.
Your goods are cost per line in the container and that's what you'll be charged for.
Happy shopping in the east.

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Good Day
Do you have the first door on the posted pix. What exactly is it made of, the size and price ?

spyder880:
Its so cold and quiet in here today, Oya, lets critique this housing estate

What do you hate most about this arrangement?

Housing estate

Or

Housing Stores

gbadexy:
The pop powder is replaced with portland cement to be used to mix the pop emulsion paint to form a paste.
Some topbond or other brand name variety of it is best added to the paint to reduce the risk of cracking. like 1litre of the bond to 1 drum of pop emulsion paint.
While acrylic based paint is the best type of paint in all type of paints, experience has shown that addition of some pva based topbond type binders helps to minimize possibility of cracking due to it slowing down the drying rate of the screeding plaster on the wall after application.
Cracking is caused when the plaster doesn't have time to shrink uniformly due to drying. The top dries faster than the under. but adding top bond slows it to allow more uniform drying due to its alcohol content which has affinity for water.

Okay.
Is it possible to get this same acrylic based pop emulsion paint in any other colour apart from the white/off white colour it is, as a production specialist?
Thanks

gbadexy:
We did discuss on this thread the advantages of cement screeding over the regular pop cement and paint screeding.
I was of the opinion cement screeding is better but not used much because of its slower drying and setting, hence why contractors that want to hurriedly leave one site for other jobs don't favor it.
like I mentioned then, it's stronger, smoother and the slow setting ensures there is no wastage of materials.
In gypsum screeding, after 10 to 15 minutes, the paste becomes too stiff to use and has to be scraped off the bowl. Even mixing in small quantities doesn't totally prevent this but significantly minimizes it.
Here is a link to the building of our own hajj muftau where cement screeding was done:
https://www.nairaland.com/4453773/painting-pictures-hajji-mufutaus-kobo-kobo

I assume this should remove doubt about the feasibility of cement screeding for internal and external screeding.

If I may ask, how is the cement mixing done
Is it just cement alone and what's the price per Sqm?

skelefish:
Is this dredging sand different from the regular sharp sand?
Can u put your numbers of tyre per tons. e.g 6tyre = 5tons. 20=so so tons.
Thanks.

6tyre falls between 10 -15 tons depending on bucket size and sand loading.
Dredging sand in my area in the lay man's terms does not really have "teeth".
So depending on your location and cost implication, some of us use "diving sand"(local mining).

Walins:
. How many bag of cement do u get frm one trips of sand

Every location differs and I rarely use dredging sand for moulding.
6tyre loading........max 12 bags
10 tyre loading....20 bags

Walins:
if am to mode a block hw much will it cost and hw will I calculate it

You will have to find out the price in your area but in my area its a bag at #700.
Types of aggregate material determines the mix and preferred number.

On a general note (foundation stage/ sub-structure))
6" blocks(solid/hollow)------------30/35 blocks
9" blocks (solid/hollow)----------20/25 blocks


You can increase the number by +5 afterwards for after foundation stage.

KolaShangOne:
Attached.

Thanks.

KolaShangOne:
Yes Sir.. It's 3000 per sqm..

Please can you put up pix of them
Thanks Sir

Good Day Sir
Please does this brand have "Spotted Shingles " and what's the price?

Hmmm

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Dominionng:
You did a full wall tiles before POP ceiling and your installer didn't crack the tiles before he installed the ceiling? i.e the ceiling was tied to the noggin alone without the wall? Kindly keep his contact for you will need him for repairs. This is not a drill sir.

The first of such builds I did that was in 2014.
If any of such happens the client will definitely contact me.

akinolaolujide:
It's your project and your taste and your decision all am saying is it's not construction beat practice .

Is there a guideline handbook for best practice?

Get 5 Engineers and 5 Architects from different countries and seek their opinions on certain things as regarding building construction then you have a debate.

Certain things we ascribe to are nothing but myths.

akinolaolujide:
Beacause some people drive right hand cars in Nigeria does not make it right.
After all all men are still driving cars.

If they have broken a law then it's not enforceable.

I have broken none. And my client does not spend more than the usual known price.

akinolaolujide:
There are pop is a very messy process except you are having it precast y do u want to spend funds cleaning a well done tiling Job or even just preventing pop from getting to it .
Also the scaffold employed by the Pop guys may end up spoiling th tiles. So why take that risk

There are no floor tiles yet to be done.
Walls tiles comes up first in all toilets, kitchen and my POP installer gets to work.
Tiller will work completely afterwards on the floor.

Dominionng:
Oh! Of course there is a logical reason sir.
When wall tiles is fixed before POP ceiling, then you need to break the tiles above the ceiling line, or at least all the points where the POP mesh will meet the wall. And with that, there is a high chance of cracked tiles below the ceiling line.
So, why waste money, time and energy when you can have your tiles neatly done after your POP ceiling.

I have about 3 buildings/sites where I have done it that way.
My POP installer did not crack the wall tiles.
I guess my installer works differently.

Dominionng:
POP should come first.

There is no harm in doing it differently.
As there is no actual logical reasoning doing it in any particular format.

Walins:
. How many fit will the foundation be

A look at your particular design plan and if you intend using 6" or 9" will help as to know the range which it will fall .

Rubbiish:
I asked u just to know if what my engr has been using & what i have been reading is wrong, not to ridicule u.

Are u a client? Aren't u a professional?

I thought i saw where u explained the ratio to someone above?
Una too dey take things personal for here abeg...

Hian.........so you have been memorizing and quoting what your engr does
Okay o ooo

As long as it works okay for him its okay .

sako28:
My ogas,
Which come first bathroom wall tiles installation or bathroom POP ceiling installation.

Thank you

Whichever you choose is okay.

I've always preferred POP afterwards in the instance of doing full wall tiling.

allCopacetic:
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Modern..Simplistic

Killing people.
Sir, what exactly is this