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spyder880:
The blocks I bought. ......

Sir, i observed the surface of the block is smooth not too good when plastering.

Shawls:
This forum has been very fantastic in helping one another with the "Good, the Bad and the Ugly" building project contractor experiences we encounter as individuals.It is a herculean task,especially for Nigerians in diaspora, trying to erect building(s) in Nigeria.Our knowledge of current building materials and labour is so poor that we end up paying higher prices, comparatively, most times.Interactions on a forum like this with honesty and openess about information has been beneficial and a saving grace to a lot of people.
However, may I suggest that contractors or suppliers should stop e-mailing prices to individuals.Afterall, we all buy online where prices of products are listed for ALL to see.If there is transparency in a bussiness deal, it drives in more clients.
Discounts may be given to individuals based on amount of purchase(bulk vs small).That is understandable and acceptable.

Secondly, if there is a dispute with a contractor, try to resolve it amicably first,(I'm dealing with one right now), if that does not work, bring your case to the forum with evidences (pictures don't lie) and let others in the forum help you out.

Just my own one cent.Thanks all.

Bold letters, mailing price is inevitable. some do not understand the use of this forum. Imagine a client saw my post two years ago still asking for that price, i know have to direct to check the date and go to the last page through phone conversation. Some will mail requesting for price update. All building materials change everyday now.

Empiree:
Help needed.

Trying to choose btw these two. What are pros and cons of these step titles metcoppo?

Is choice... Both are same.

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Building Codes In Nigeria Must Be Enforced – TPL Yari Makinde Oluwarotimi — Nov 25, 2016 12:20 am | Leave a comment TPL Kabir M Yari, FNITP, PPNITP is a former president of the Nigerian Institute of Town Planners and the current Habitat Programme Manager (HPM) of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-HABITAT. In this Interview with Makinde Oluwarotimi, he bares his mind on challenges facing building and planning in Nigeria among other things. Can you tell us about the various impacts the NITP has made so far on the nation in all respects at the federal, state and local government levels? One of the things we look at is whether the institute has been able to build the capacity for its practitioners to manage the investments, to an extent, yes we have. We have been having a lot of conferences and publications and these are not only for our members but the general public, but you find out that one other thing that the NITP has done fairly well is the issue of advocacy. You find out that when you are looking at policies, for example, the national housing policy which was done in the 90s, was headed by our members. Secondly, we had been able to call the attention of government to the issue of climate change. When we were experiencing flooding, we have to plan and do other things. But even before then, our founding fathers did a lot. For example, after the civil war in Nigeria, they were the ones who were recommending government to rebuild the citizens in eastern Nigeria who were destroyed by the civil war of 1967. At the same time now, we are making a lot of cases for the rebuilding of the north eastern part of Nigeria because it’s not only building houses but providing good planning and better environment, taking advantage of the problems or disasters to give us more opportunity to plan better and give better livelihood to those people. What challenges has the institute faced in the process of fulfilling its mandates and objectives? The institute, as well as the members, have been facing a lot of problems, one of the big problems is the numbers. The population has been growing from independence, some barely around 30million, now if you look, it’s about 180million and you see it has grown like five times and the number of planners has not multiplied the same way. So you discover that the problems of the population explosion or fast population growth is a big challenge of planning because development is above planning and planners are now running behind development. Two, one of the big challenges is that many policy makers are not aware of the importance of planning but coincidentally, they want to give better lives to an extent; they want to embark on projects like roads, drainage and some other problems but what we, as trained planners, tend to do is that we help you to reduce cost and do better projects by planning ahead, so that you are able to implement but when people just want to construct roads and other things without planning ahead, you find out it’s very expensive. The third is that we are having issues of funding planning problems. There are many towns where master plans are being done but to implement that plan is becoming a problem, if they had sat down to look at better ways, such a problem would not have occurred but we tend to think the money sources are more important. Plan and plan implementation, if you do the master planning, without the implementation, you are not doing planning, so those are some of the problems we are facing. Today, most Nigeria cities have been growing without those plans like you said, so what do you think can be done about it? Urban upgrading is to provide better infrastructure. If you remember the world habitat day for 2016, the theme is Housing at the centre but the United Nations is saying housing is not just at centre but when there is a roof over your head. But housing includes decent shelter, accessibility, houses accessible to jobs and other places. It includes adequate supply of water and sanitation, adequate improved basic infrastructure. All these substitute what we call adequate housing so we find out that in Nigeria, if you put that definition, you will discover that most of the houses and urban settlement are not adequate. It means there is need for the government to provide an a solution because there are so much backlogs of houses, they have been saying that 17 million houses are needed to be provided for the people, yes you must plan ahead, not just plan but you must plan at the scale of the problem. Are satisfied with the constitutional laws guiding the institute and planning in the nation, if not what improvement will you like to be made? For the institute, I am satisfied but for the planning laws, there is a lot be done because planning is made a residual issue because there was a Supreme Court issue between the Lagos State government and federal government where the former challenged the federal government on decree 88 of 1992. But the most important thing is that both levels of government need to corporate. The growth of slums in our cities are increasing by the day. What do you think can be done? African ministers in 2014 went to Morocco and they had a resolution to make slums history. Slum purifications is a big problem in sub-Sahara African countries, in fact with the MEG, many countries have been able to reduce the number of slum pollution, even in northern Africa, they were able to reduce the number of slums in that area but sub-Sahara Africa and Nigeria were having big challenges. The most important thing that can reduce the number of slums is to plan ahead. If you plan ahead, you have reduced the purification of slums. You can’t plan ahead until you have the plan and when you have the plan, you have the implementation plan and to implement a plan, you need to mobilise resources. So my suggestion is that the Nigerian government should plan, phase out the plan and there is what we call capital investment program. So if they have the plan, they can initiate the capital investment program, usually a short term of about three years so they provide for all infrastructure on annual bases and the funding. Three, there is need for government to find ways to find infrastructures, there are many other ways government can find infrastructure, part of it is when you do street naming. You can improve your revenue, you can do what they call value capture. In former Nigerian law, they called it betterment fees. If you improve the infrastructure, the land value increases, I suggest we use what they call participatory land adjustment. When I went to India, at that time, the government didn’t have the money. They put the plots together, re-planned it well and then gave it back to the individual and subtracted the amount of space left for drainage, roads and others. At the end of it, even though the land is smaller, it will have better value and the towns are planned properly. I think I will advocate to Nigerian government that those that do not have much money should think participatory and I say participatory because you are doing it with the consent of the people, nobody will complain. When you plan like that, it will eliminate slums all over. The fourth one is that we ensure that we use public private partnership. It has been used now for private developers to build houses and sell but the problem of that one is when you look at the poor people, the ones at the bottom of the pyramid who are more than the others, they may not be able to afford it but if we do re- adjustment, it will be win-win for everybody. In many cities and states in this nation, especially Lagos and Abuja, we have places that have become refuse dumps what can be done about it? The issue of refuse is vast, even the conception because refuse and cities are all linked together. In earlier days, the cities provided the waste and the waste was used by the farmers for fertilizers and that’s why the farms grew and even the sewage, they were used to fertilize. If you at look at the 50s and 60s in Kano, they had so many donkeys. Early in the morning, donkeys would bring firewood and when they are going back, they would take the waste for the farm and that’s why the productivity was very high and the farms were very fertile, but because of modern technology the waste have become none-degradable because they are plastic and if you take it to the farm, they will only spoil the farm and will not fertilise it. What is important is how government can turn that waste into a resourceful product, and being able to create something out of the waste, which’s what we are advocating. Use the waste, sort it out by degradable waste, you can use the degradable one for manure and the other none-degradable waste, you can turn it to energy so you can save the environment. Collapsed buildings have been a menace in this nation. What is your take on this? You find out that many of these collapsed building don’t have approval and those that have approval are not following the specification or design. What we advocate is that there should be some enforcement, there should be some building codes that should be enforced and that is why we have the national building cooperation, there are buildings that are not only collapsing but when flooding occurs, some of the buildings collapse. That is what we have to bring to the drawing table, try to make the builders accommodate, also ensure that our buildings are not bad and they can withstand the disasters. We have more people in Nigeria who live in rented apartments. What can be done about it? Once you have a shelter over your head and you can afford the rent, when we say affordability that is if 1/3 of your income is going for the rent, then it’s excellent. If the amount you pay for your rent is more than your income, then it’s not sustainable, the house is not affordable. We advocate that the government should do something about home ownership case, home ownership in Nigeria.

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...No compromising, No wayowayo, No abrakatabra, No ojoro.

..beyond IMAGINATION

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30tons Mainland @N145,000
30tons Island all tru Ajah roundabout @N155,000

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30tons Mainland @N145,000
30tons Island all tru Ajah roundabout @N155,000

Tel: 08055545355, 08032887233, 08025392565, 08098055224

...No compromising, No wayowayo, No abrakatabra, No ojoro.

..beyond IMAGINATION

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Tadeus:
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Give the 2 price. waiting sir

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gbadexy:
Words can't express how much I appreciate your kind words and numerous recommendations.
God will continue to place you in the place of an elder and a leader.

This guy really knows what he is doing...guy you rocks you field.

I am very happy, i have worked with many Builder, Engineers from Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Abuja, Temporarily Calabar & PH, i must give kudos to Aventure, CEO Moore Shelter, PMIL, Segzy14, The Doyen of creativity Skimanski, darenyx, Best concrete STAMP floor Junapril all these people are just what you can call perfect, i will never forget Muyesky Ogbeni you too much, wonderful clients, we are with from foundation to finish people like deking, igbanbajo, FESTUSAKINBAMO, Marpol(Shagamu), Tulex and many more. Likewise we have some that are frustrating but i pray God touch their heart positively.

...we are still here doing building materials right: Granite, Cement, Iron Rod, Sharp Sand and Filling Sand, Vibrated concrete Block, Wood.
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Tadeus:
Manual or auto drive?

Auto

We thank all our customers who stood by us all this while despite the high cost of building materials, we say God will continue to be with you, provide, enrich you in Jesus name.

We are please to inform the general public(Lagos, Ogun, Oyo) that the price of Granite has decline a bit to N2,500/ton now(Transport exclusive)

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Hello Nairalanders,
Please I need a Building Material Marketer around Igwurital; Port harcourt here.
I need the costing of the following materials; Your least prices please.

1. 2000 Blocks
2. 50 Bags of Cement
3. 7 Trips of Sharp Sand
4. 1 Trip of Granite Stones
5. 20 Pcs of Half Inch Rod
6. 5 Pcs of Steel Rod
7. 25 Pcs of 1/12 Wood

Waiting for your response.

PH service suspended.

Tadeus:
Always at your service

Nissan Almera Tino 2006 to Lagos

We thank all our customers who stood by us all this while despite the high cost of building materials, we say God will continue to be with you, provide, enrich you in Jesus name.

We are please to inform the general public(Lagos, Ogun, Oyo) that the price of Granite has decline a bit to N2,500/ton now(Transport exclusive)

Call us now: 08055545355, 08032887233, 08025392565, 08098055224, 08045444544.

Our services is 24/7

The issue while truck loaded with Granite mostly use that bridge is because of the area boys under the bridge extorting the driver and molesting the drivers, most complain the bridge not conducive too narrow for two trucks at a time, Area boys can't be on the bridge at that time. that is the reason they use the bridge

it is the reason the trucks do not move in the day time, all truck moving Granite move from 10pm to 5am within Lagos. Thank God no life was lost.

Lagos should carry out 100% Zero tolerance on Area boys and Omonile.

Delgi:
Will any of these do?, let me know.

Yes sir... Load capacity 30tons watch for that. 1&3 is good 2 can not lift 30tons but can work with sharp sand.

segcymoor:
U can't understand Bros





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We got to check and check again .....we are resetting for columns base because we can't afford to get it wrong.


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Building control agencies will come for approval. We can't proceed if not ok.

I just tire sef... The people no go come see anything ooo, na money them want ooo or frustrate you. Anyway lets learn this type of foundation. Lets go there.

darenyx:
12 units self contain apartments
Client : Nairalander

This Guy na BOMB, wetin sef... Nice concept i love this. Quick one preferred land dimension? All old houses for AJEGUNLE ready to Go... Popular demand.

spyder880:
Don't mind the cheaters, can you land me a complete load to Umuahia, how much. Contact the on watsapp if possible.

N7,500/ton 30tons Load=N225,000