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spyder880:
Still learning, just a question, is there any reason why you want to wait till the materials are complete before starting the setting out/breaking the ground since this normally takes up to 2-3 days?

Just to be rest assured that our plan will fly as pre-planned. Why break grounds when the materials are not on site? Suppliers may fail and thus projects delay starts. I dont like keeping my guys waiting endlessly, I always want at least 50% of my materials ready before committing to a task.

If we shift the date by a day or two is not too bad than keeping yr artisan waiting endlessly for materials. Instead of setting out, I'd rather commit to doing the relatively easy tasks like the foundation pillars and mat, water, and some others mentioned above.

Reason for Sale: I hate the phone, it sucks and I'm a MAC fan.
Bought Brand New with Carton.

I think your GF too needs adjustment. Why have visitors toilet under the stair? Arent you considering security? Someone might hide inside the toilet without you knowing, its too hidden where it is! Suggestion, Let it come to the ante room

Send me an email at NextHome@live.com for a free draft design and I'll send you the draft design later today. You can share the draft design with house for discussion

Good morning. Yesterday, the site was cleared, ready for the excavation. This will not be started until we have taken full delivery of materials for the foundation. Expect more progress updates after 16th June!

Before then, we will be doing the following:
1. Taking delivery of materials to the site
2. Breaking/removal of existing foundation. (We can get 10 (16mm) beam reinforcement from the existing foundation)
3. Preparing the steel beam reinforcement structures (Iron Bender). Ready for installation over the coming days.
4. Setting Out/Breaking Ground
5. Building a temporary structure as site office/store

Pic updates to follow as we progress.


Plan Your Work. Work Your Plan

Nice one Spyder880, I think as we embark on new projects, it may get a little confusing following along with all of them in one thread stream, so it will be a good idea opening new thread. This way we will keep the thread clean.

NextHome’s design process varies greatly with the conventional norm for home builders.

@jerryben12, thank you sire.

Today, the site has been cleared and cleaned…. it is nice to have a clean environment to work, rather than the bushy and unkept compound that we had before! In the next few days, I'll be taking delivery of materials for the foundation work which will be done hopefully and God-willing on Saturday.

Stay tuned.

Suppliers needed around Arepo, please quote for the following materials.

1. 30 ton Granite
2. 30 ton Granite Dust
3. 20 ton Sharp Sand
4. 20 ton filling sand
5. 1 ton 12mm iron rod
6. 1 ton 16mm iron rod

Please send your quotation to nexthome@live.com - Only supplier within Arepo, Ibafo, Magboro, Mowe axis only.

keba:
Wow Brabus, this is great. Was going through this post then told a colleague of mine who resides in Lagos before he called you asking about availability of property in the area. Would have spoken with you but he ran out of credit. I will contact you soonest and will definitely follow up this project, kudos,

Keba, thanks for the credit. I'll mail you as soon as I gain information from my contacts. There are still more properties within the area but let's keep it off the thread. I'll mail shortly.

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@george31, I'm watching

and more,

More pic,

3pleT, you need only one staircase in that house I'm seeing. Convert the stair in the kitchen to a Laundry or Pantry/Store. The space on the first floor can be used as game/gym room. My one cent

Site Clearing
Picture Updates

>>>Off to site. Early to bed, early to rise.

Pic updates to follow soon from the site.

We are still tidying up documents on land transfer and registration. N7.5m, no be small money o. We have to bring in all the Alfas, Pastors, Babalawos, Police, Army, Lawyers into the matter.

But anyway, here is an outline of how I expect us to proceed from now and since we don't have any other regulatory issues remaining we should now be on track.

Tomorrow 12th June - Site Clearing/Preparation for foundation laying.
The week of June 13th - we will finish the land transfer and registration. Once this process is complete we will move to the site and work will start with purchase of materials, surveying the plots to create room for excavation.
By the week of June 25th - you will be able to see some major work going on at the site.

Thanks

^^ Make I send in my CV.

diordaves:
Yet another bold move. Well done. To start the ball rolling, I've got a couple of questions:

# What are your core focus (objectives) in delivering this obviously grand project: SPEED, COST or QUALITY? This is imperative, so that when we critique and appraise your effort we do so informatively and objectively and not blindly as previously experienced.

# You said the project is in Beachland Estate and land cost is 7.5m excluding Omonile. My question is when you buy into an estate, do you still deal with omonile or the vendors of the estate are expected to smoothen out all hicups with omoniles. Stay blessed.

Thanks Diordaves,

Cutting corners is a common practice in Nigeria, with developers and builders keen to reduce construction costs, often at the expense of the structural integrity of the building.  It is often in the places that can not be seen that these corners are cut, but invariably, these are the worst possible places to try to save on a few Naira such as with the foundations.  We are ensuring that at every stage of the build we are using only the best quality materials and also that we are adhering to the highest possible international construction standards.

Is it SPEED or COST? Nah 

But QUALITY and STRICT ADHERENCE to highest possible construction standards is our core focus.  I hope that through this a lot of people will gain an understanding of the construction process and may find it useful when planning their own building projects.

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As a foreigner, you often find things are not done quite the way that you are used to, and buying land is no exception.  Different things applies to different location. The greedy nature and attitude of some real estate agents makes me tag them "Omo-Onile". The land was bought from someone who's selling off within the estate, as a result it was not really estate vendor affair.

3pple T:
Hello peep,

I am about to deck my five bedroom duplex,  please can you kindly  advise me may be 2 staircase is better in a duplex than a normal  1 stair,  please your candid opinion is needed before i make a terrible mistakes, anybody can contribute, thanks.

Post your floor plan. But out of curiousity, how have you been doing it before? Are there no plan?

Thanks Seun and Lawyer (the moderator) for bringing this to the front page. I would like to use this opportunity to thank you for adding the "Like" button to threads and posts on Nairaland. I would also like to suggest that you look at the layout. We should be able to see bookmarked, related and new thread at a glance on any page. I suggest you reduce the size of the space for posts and do a 2 or 3-column page (facebook style) so that you can accomodate all this new features.
I'm a design consultant so I can tell when a design is boring. But all the same, I must thank you for the opportunity you afforded Nigerians.

Great job.
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More update about the design and the client.

Having spent the last 4 weeks consulting with my client, the final draft and design of this project is now complete. My client had been watching the progress of all the houses showcased in the previous thread “The Real Cost of Building a Six Bedroom Duplex” and really want something different, so the design and concept you'll find here could be considered to be a hybrid design.
Today, I will pass on all of the architectural plan drawing to structural engineer. I should have drawings back by the end of next week and break ground on Saturday 18th. The target completion date is June 2012.

I'll also be spending the better part of my time today with on the site with my bricklayer and site engineer to see how we can convert an existing foundation on the site for our benefit. Later today, once I gain time, I'll send the site plan for discussion and deliberation.


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Select:
@ All,
This is a nice one and worth monitoring.
U can get in touch for the processing of your Building Plan Approvals within Lagos and Ogun States. I work as a Town Planning Officer in one of the Lagos State District Offices. U cannot get me on phone at the moment(as I am not in town). But pls mail me via- select500@yahoo.com and I will get back to you immediately.
Cheers!

@Select, I'm presently working on two projects in Lagos. I'll mail you as soon as the drawings are ready. Ogun state happens to be my jurisdiction, I dont have issues getting things sorted out in time.

prince_onx:
My project is in Aboru (iyana-ipaja Lagos), I know I have wired $10K 4times from January to April 2011 and I no get change left (don't have the full break down) but post #2306 page 73 and post #1335 page 42 will help with some details. I honestly do no know what it will cost to finish the project but if it exceds N20m even if na one window remain I go leave am like that   send email to prince_tonel@yahoo.com if e no work call 911 and ask of me  

lol

Thank you for all the responses so far. Work should commence on the site by Monday 13th June after we have tidy up all the loose ends. But meanwhile, I'm working out the Construction Schedules and Timeline with my client and subcontractors based on available resources.

Lesson 1
Make changes on paper. Once you start building, it becomes exponentially more expensive (not to mention time-consuming) to make changes. The best time to make a change is when you’re still working off of the plans. While every job has some changes, your project will get built faster and with fewer errors if you make changes before the walls go up.

Why Construction Schedule? You may want to ask

Staying on schedule will save us money. Lots and lots of money!

How?

Having a written goal to shoot for, not some vague idea of when things should be done will help us get closer to our goals than just hoping for things. Also, the schedule will let us know when to order what supplies, and this will help us save because it means we'd have materials onsite when we need them, thus no time delays; unused materials are on site for shorter periods of time, thus less damage and theft.

This thread will continue to be an interesting one like the previous thread as it will dwell most on smart steps to build a luxury house without breaking bank.

Thank you all. Today has been a very tough day, I've been very busy doing the documentations, so nothing much is happening. But lest I forget, here is my neighbourhood - at least to prepare your mind for what is about to happen.

^^^ N1700 - N1750 in Sagamu.

Hello All, one thing I'll be doing on this thread is to modify my posts wherever needed so that we can keep the thread clean.

@sunnyjz, I'll mail you later. I'll be setting off to site early today.

@caseymoney, I know smartdraw, visio and all others but  I use ConceptDraw for Mac.

@Sagewood, pls check the Land information above. 55 x 120ft (I'll always keep it updated as soon as real things get started). We are building 3 flats. see the floor plan attached.

@Fhemmy - I'm all out for you today. You love pics, you get some nice ones from the neighbourhood.

@love-tosin, thanks for the opportunity you afforded me.

prince_onx:
OK guys! Spyder, Alone, brabus and co
I did my decking about 6weeks ago and am about to start the top part of the house sometime next week. I used 9" block from foundation through decking except toilet and closet. My question now is: will it be a problem using 6" blocks for the top part of the house? I spoke with my younger brother today who is supervising the project and both him and the contractor plan on using 9" for only the 4 sides of the top and everything else like splitting of the rooms, dinning, kitchen, etc they plan on using 6". Please let me know what you guys think before I give them the go ahead.

It's a good idea.

Project Location: Beachland Estate, Arepo, Ogun State
Reason: Proximity to Lagos (5 minutes drive to Berger, 10 minutes to Magodo, 20 minutes to Allen, Ikeja, 30 minutes to Ikoyi Club, 40 minutes to VI, 40 minutes to Murtala Muhammed Airport)
Land Cost: [/b]N7.5m (excluding Agency fee, Omo-onile, and miscellanous)
[b]Land Size: 55 x 120ft

Does the land worth the price? Maybe - I'll post more picture of the neighbourhood later tmrw.

[b]LAND INFORMATION
[/b]Flat Topography
Fenced with gate
Title: Survey, C of O (almost ready)
In a gated community


@sunnyjz, I'll update the floor plan later as soon as its ready. Inbox me for the cost of the plan.

The land and the neighbourhood.

caseymoney:
This thread cover everything and i see no reason for a new thread,

Sure it does but I decided to create this thread to document and provide useful information to anyone who has decided to head down the path that my client (love-tosin) did, and build their own house. This is more like a mixed-use apartment unlike a private residence being discussed on this thread.

New thread opened "Building a Luxury Block of Flats: Day-to-day Updates (with pictures)". Let's do it again!

New thread opened "Building a Luxury Block of Flats: Day-to-day Updates (with pictures)". Let's do it again!