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spyder880: I was asking because I couldn't see the blocks on the list. Ask him again, how does he plan to do the concrete facial on the beam except if he raises the normal beam till after 12 coaches of blocks?

spyder880: May I use this opportunity to thank all of you, my friends in the property section of this forum. You have been with us through thick and thin all through the year 2012. Your love, support and encouragement to us was so much that we can only say a big thank you.
We promise to keep doing what we have been doing, only that we are going to do more in the coming year to satisfy more clients and improve the system. We also say a big thank you to all our clients; past, present and future, that our relationship will continue to be cordial as usual.
Our wish to you is that the good lord will make all your dreams to come true this 2013, may good health, wealth, joy and prosperity be your portion all through 2013 and beyond.
May god bless you all.

brabus: I think it’s obvious by now that updating this blog has become a little more difficult. In between balancing work, family and of course the project I’ve found little time to update it. Sincere apologies to those who come back looking for updates often. The project is actually on break now.

I'll update the cost of this project later on this thread. Meanwhile, we're doing some background works prior to finishing of the house now.

Watch this space as from next week as things begin to unfold. "From Paper to Brick: Rendering and Facade for our shell"

spyder880: This is the whole costs for doing the decking in this house.

1 SAND 7 12,000.00 84,000.00
2 GRAVEL 5 20,000.00 100,000.00
3 12MM RODS 310 1,600.00 496,000.00
4 6MM RODS 50 600.00 30,000.00
5 16MM RODS 20 3,000.00 60,000.00
6 CEMENT 130 1,850.00 240,500.00
7 1X12X12 PLANKS 325 900.00 292,500.00
8 2X3X12 POLINE 60 250.00 15,000.00
9 BAMBOO 200 250.00 50,000.00
10 BINDING WIRE 1 4,500.00 4,500.00
11 NAILS 15,900.00
12 CONDUIT WIRING AND MATERIALS 115,000.00
13 LABOUR FOR CARPENTERS 90,000.00
14 LABOUR FOR IRON WORKS 60,000.00
15 LABOUR FOR MIXING AND POURING 89,500.00
16 TRANSPORT AND LOADING/OFFLOADING 18,000.00
17 MANAGEMENT AND SUPERVISION 141,100.00

TOTAL N1,902,000.00

PREVIOUS TOTAL N2,795,700.00

TOTAL MONEY SPENT IN BUILDING THIS HOUSE TILL DECKINUG LEVEL IS N4,697,700.00

Aventures: @bugemont. Every other material is ok; but i av some doubt concerning rfct i think is on high side, but i cant be precisr on wout d structural drg. Also d labours are a bit high u can negotiate down to abt 70 percent of those charges wt d exception of supervision. Meanwhile, it is not advisable that the pillar shld be casted along wt d slabs. They shld be done seperately. Goodluck

Aventures: sir going thru this tread will give an insight to the pros and cons of framed structure building. But let me just do a re-cap generally buildings in area such as lekki, Ajah and any area where the soil bearing capacity is low and building are prone to settlement are supposed to be built as framed structure. The procedure is simply to construct all the structural members first and ensure that all the members are rigidly connected together (the structural design would have specify hw this is to be done, the design would have also taken to consideration thst the block wall will only act as partitioning wall only and not part of strucctural member). Though this can also be achived by conventional method of building the block wall, cast the columns and beam one after the other but the effectiveness can not be like constructing the structural member first b4 the block wall.
Cost wise, there is little or no significant different if well managed. framed structure method is faster and much more safe stronger and better.

spyder880: Its another way of doing it and I think Aventures or Segsy moore has built a house like that here in this property section?

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spyder880: Thank you for this question, in my negotiation with my clients, I make sure I demand for two things, one is a store room where I can pack materials like cement and other "dry" space materials. In this store will also be the tools and fittings needed for the job. The room should always be locked and the key will be with my trusted supervisor on site with constant checks by me. (You saw the number we wrote on the cement stock a few pages back, to enhance accountability)

Another thing I ask for is a room where my workers will be sleeping, I prefer this resting room to be very close to the store room, like next door so my men can keep an eye on the materials store.

In sites far from occupied homes, I will ask my client to construct or fund the construction of a two room wooden work house where the above activities are done right inside the site. (Like in the Owerri project) we are loosening the wood in the Owerri project to use in the building now as my men can sleep inside the down portion now.