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Hajivince:
More on Pad base casting

Well done engr. Clean job.
Hope you invited fcda people to inspect the strip and column starters and bases before casting? They can be very difficult atimes.
Kudos!

flexyonline:
Apologies and I believe everyone is an adult that can look out for themselves but this your arrangement is doing me somehow o honestly. Everyone knows where building materials suppliers are so shopping for those here just seems off. Again, apologies bur I can not help but voice this out.

U are not alone.
I smell so many rats too....

Used motor oil is carcinogenic. The heat on the roof will react to produce dangerous gasses which you will be inhaling. Don't use your money to buy cancer.
People here are giving advice on things they are not competent. There were times you can take advice on this thread to the bank. Not anymore.
Caveat emptor should be added after advice from some people here!

redgem:
I am a novice....my brain didn't think of that

Don't even do it.
The 2x4 in the market are not exactly 2x4. By then time u cut it into two you won't get 2x2 but chewing stick.

sonnie10:
Does anyone know how to make wooden texture on a concrete plastered wall before applying wooden oil paint? We do not want it to be just plain and smooth, instead we want that real wooden pattern finishing, There are tiles and bricks like that but to me, those are not work of art

Something like the second picture

Search no more. Your friend Bosun N3xt will do it for you at shekele money.

redgem:
@sonnie10 @michlins @coldcandy @n3xt and the monikers I could not mention... Thank you guys for your contributions/advices...he has refunded my money! Will be going to buy at the market tomorrow with my engineer

Well done madam and thank God for dodging that bullet. Don't listen to his co-vendors trying to make u feel like u have taken the wrong step. You have bought yourself rest of mind. You can't quantify the amount of money u hv used to buy Rest of Mind!
You can and you will get good roofing hardwood in the market. Approach the sellers (airport road, okhoro, sapele road, etc) but don't appear desperate. Most of them often give valuable info on how to identify hardwood for roofing with even different names.
Take your time. Don't rush.

redgem:
I don't have the strength for issues but I won't let someone cheat or intimidate me because I am a lady...

In this industry be ready for issues because there are many wolves in sheep's clothing.
Anyone can be dupped both men and women especially if it is your first build.
You are already in the right track by being here. Read this thread from the beginning for good tips
You may not get good help here anymore because fraudulent vendors have taken over from the do-it-yourself builders that started this thread. These vendors will give you excellent advise but the advise are cleverly done to trap you. Just becareful

redgem:
He is getting the woods direct from the bush and he promised that its quality...told me the woods in the market are not strong woods, they will be attacked by termites (even after treatment) and will wear out with time.

I made the payment immediately I was given the price list, paid him full amount he told me last week only to get a call that he went to the Bush this morning and the price has increased... Is it my fault that he didn't pay immediately I sent the money to him?

That was why I was delaying cos I wanted to gather funds for wood work and roofing.. Only to find out now that I am spending more than half of my budget for wood work.

The wood in the market were all gotten from the bush.
I guess he gave u a very low quotation compared to the market price too. Let's hope u have not been conned.
Ask him to return the money.

redgem:
Good evening everyone... Please can I ask for my money back after I paid for my woods only to be told now that prices have increased... I paid for wood a week ago only to get a call now that I need to pay extra 65k to the 545k I paid a week ago making it 610k. I feel like I am being cheated... I have not even paid for other materials, transportation and labour(negotiated 100k after plenty begging)..
Just 12 pieces of 3×4×18
90 pieces of 2×4 ×18
90 pieces of 2×3×18
120 pieces of 2×2×18... And these people want to cut my head ��� close to 800k just for wood work? Then how much for roofing ���

Prices of materials changes per second these days. So it's difficult to tell if that is genuine or not.
Don't send him the money. Put that 65k in your pocket, go to the market and check the current prices at different mills then go with the guy and buy and pay for the goods. Pack your wood to your site that same day. Stand there and ensure the quantity you paid for is what is loaded. Follow the truck all the way to your site. Trust no one. I repeat: trust no One.


If u don't have time to do these things yourself then send the money, close your eyes and pray.

NB: don't start woodwork until u have enough money for the roofing sheets.

flexyonline:
My learning is that battery capacity compared with typical load is the main thing and that then determines number of panels for optimum charging from solar output less usage. Even though my panels are sized for 12KW, the highest solar output I have gotten instatenously is 8.5KW.

That is the right way to go about it. Calculated load<battery power<solar panels.
Pls what is the estimated cost of your outlay?

n3xt:
No process is slow when there’s convincing evidence of fraud. Simple!

I gave him money to build a house for me in Oshogbo, we found a house he built in Ijebu.

But it won’t sell when you have coc*k and bull stories to prove.

House no be bread na! It takes months to develop so to establish fraud is pretty easy when you have a valid proof[i][/i].

Ladies and gentlemen, here is your con man of the century!

twinskenny:
I no want talk for your matter bro but you are really becoming a nuisance.. can you shut down everything around you and think for a day? Just a self reflection.. just saying ..


Remember on somehow project we spent extra money on the decking electrical pipe you did? We basically replaced all the pipes..

May Almighty God show you your true self.

Best prayer at this moment.

AlphaTaikun:
@n3xt
I know... Lol.

Due dilligence is an integral part
of my DNA. I can't fall for the games of those without a pedigree on here... "Emi ke?"

I've been on NL since 2005 with
an older account and I can sniff
out any scam online and offline.
A famous maxim goes thus, "Only the paranoid survive."


Thanks again.

Cheers.

Lol...we have heard this before.
When it happens you won't know how it happened and I will be here reading and laughing.
Beware of over sabi sir.

sonnie10:
I will not add and subtract from what this client and the contractor has told us.

Client said he paid #218k in total
He commissioned contractor to do the following
Procure doors worth #160
Plaster part of external walls
Repipe the whole house
Fix two windows
Remove old tiles from wall
Install basin
Do plumbing
Covert former kitchen to parlor
Fix frames for doors
Mount new doors
Do pluming testing
Do window dressing
Do door dressing
Plaster some part of internal wall

Insisted doors must be delivered first. Meaning out of the #218k , money for doors (#160k) must be spent first.

Therefore contractor would have a balance of #58k at hand for these extent of work.

Contractor applied a strategy that would’ve made it feasible by channeling limited and available fund to basic areas first. Along the line, client demanded refund for doors (88k).

Note-Business or trade strategy is secret, contractor was not under any obligation to revile his.

Conclud for yourself if the above listed work could be achieved with #130k which he agreed he paid for workmanship.

So why did contractor accept the job when he knew it was not worth it?
Anyone would have been thrown offguard with sudden demand for refund considering the whole context.

This matter wey you carry for your head is baffling.
Are you business associates with rotech or you are rotech with a second account?

henrymor:
Hi, my good people.

Good afternoon. Thank you for all the advice you gave me.

I have a question, please. I bought power showers for my bathroom and my plumbers advised me to make the tank stand 14 Ft which I did. Despite this height, the showers' pressure is still low. The taps outside bring out water with high pressure but the power showers and kitchen rap dispenses water slowly. I mean the pressure is too low. The shower pictures are attached.

Please, what can I do?

What is the pressure rating (psi) of the shower? Divide it by 0.433 to get the theoretical height difference of tank and shower outlet in feet.

EgunMogaji2:
The things that occur in Nigeria.

I went into a Very Vell known upscale furniture store in Ibadan.

I selected a suitable sofa set. They didn’t have any in stock except for the display item which of course I’m not going to buy.

The store wants me to pay a deposit before they’ll bring a new in box one.

Now this doesn’t make sense to me. I can see if I wanted some obscure version that’s not normally stocked.

Is this how yah all do this out here?

It’s a bit disappointing to me based on the perception that I had of the store. I guess they’re not as big as I thought.

Oga run oooo.
The made-after-deposit is never the same as the displayed. I have been a victim. Very popular shop in Abuja.

Kobojunkie:
Well, the role of a man, especially in relationship differs from person to person.

Some women, for instance, want a man to keep them warm, whereas others may see a men as simply a ticket to financial freedom. It all depends on what the woman is really looking for in a man.

If she is now the man then who is she warming ?

Being a man is not all about money

somehow:
For a start, a free energy saver is 100% better than inverter or solar though. (Both still cost money to get something worthwhile).

But I have made provisions for both incase... So nothing spoil.

Pls what is free energy saver?

Focusmind:
But the POP TV is the raining thing now with different disco lights colours battling to outshine each other in the pop TV stand. I don't know why I am always different from the norm when it comes to taste.

For my wife, this is the new decoration in every home now but I am still sticking with my wooden design TV console.

U are not alone! All those green and blue and red lights are really a turn off.
The interior finishing guys are bringing studio and club designs into our homes. I wonder how people sleep after exposure to all the color riots.
I vote wood.

I need this finger mesh. Any supplier?

sgtponzihater1:
Dear Brabus/Next/TheNext/Kobocity/Bosun,



...... but with the concerned persons, unconcerned persons and obvious trolls e.g vanbonatell on your balls, only heaven can rescue you this time.

All is well that ends well, and no scammer will go on unpunished

Chief SgtPonziHater

Chief Troll Vanbo
"MAN OF THE YEAR"

vanbonattel:
Looks like a prison. Those doors look like what they use to lock ritual victims before they are offered.

Chai! This one made me laugh so loud.

rotecch77:
Good morning house.
Here is the mediation update about the construction saga btw mr brabus and somehow which I stand as mediator btw them to see how the matter can be solved amicably.

As I said last time that I will update the house, here we go, straight to the point in short paragraph

The mediation start on 28th/ 29th of dec 2021.
After much time on call coupled with sms and whatzap messages with mr brabus.
Like 20min, 40min, 30min and so so, the last time we talk on phone was about 80min (1;20min) straight talk, ( I almost get hear problem that day)
I also reached MR somehow” through messages etc.

I tried to get two things done.
- the amount due to pay back
-time to pay back

On the amount due to pay back, MR brabus said he can ONLY pay N1m back based on his own calculation against N2m QS valuation .

Now after much discussion with him (brabus) he said he will do something by adding to the N1m when his head cool down, plus when meet with his cleint one in one to run mind together ( I suggested this to him)

Let me say I won this part of battle halve way.

Now to the second one “ time to pay the initial 1m, after another serious discussion MR brabus said the said N1m and is not ready at the time we discussed this ( 6th of January) and I asked when bcs its urgent and he promised to get back to me on the time, but up till now he as not get back to me, I message him but no reply yet.

I always report our discussion to mr “somehow” he do also follow up.

At the moment NO penny as been paid ( I don’t achieved my aim fully on this matter, do I called it failed mediation, hmm No bcs I I gain some I loss some. But generally I get something about life on this matter.

So as it’s now I don’t know if the client ( mr somehow will use another form to retrieve his money back or still go back to mediation. As I will take a small break about the matter and leave it for the cleint to decide.

I thanks MR somehow for his gentility and understanding toward the matter.
I also thanks MR Brabus for his time also, I will not forget others good people here who want the matter to be settled amicably.

Thank you all for your time.

Rotech.

Well done sir!
The Bible says "blessed are the peace makers". May the Lord bless you for your efforts.

henrymor:
Wow! Thanks for this advice. We used the thickest pipes for the interior. I would have gone for the 280k stand but my budget is very tight and we need to complete the remaining areas of the project and pack there by month end.

If using the normal height with pressure pump will work for me as suggested by the other excellent advisers I think I should follow it. Or what do you suggest?

Do the 14ft and save yourself future headaches.
You have already made first mistake of using power showers. Those things look romantic but not functional as per your current finances.
When I was building my house, the estate design specified jacuzzi bathtub. I ignored it and any form of bathtub. At my age I cannot be lifting legs to climb a bathtub.

uncleteeh:
According to your pics sir, this is a monopitch roof.
It isn't a flat one because it has a pitch according to it's name.
This is quite affordable and therefore could be what mountmoriah was suggesting.

Very one can check up what "flat" means using "the second teacher"

Flat roof can only be achieved through reinforced concrete as at present, therefore it is a slab and it isn't cheap.

Flat roof.
German floor.
Parapet.
Coach.
Etc.
We use them as defined by brikila. Even PhD civil engineers find it difficult to educate these brikilas.

diordaves:
Young bloods have you heard?

"Get you a wife that refuses to be quiet" so that your contractor won't be swallowing fufu with your money and refuse to take your enquiry as they have no time.

It's semo not fufu

DrGoodman:
This made me think about this in a more serious, different way, brabus may be mentally unhinged, seriously. Nobody in their right frame of mind can be as insensitive as that. You must be operating on a different faulty mental wavelength to think of advising people on what to do while being cross examined in the Dock for #2 milla
Only psychiatric patients can attempt that. We treat cases like that sometimes.

It's called Dissociative Identity Disorder

Amokomowo:
Hello professionals....

I want something like this but the bricklayer insisted na block dem go use for the pillar....I have told him to stopped and look for a professional.... Please is he supposed to use a block as pillar to get same results ?

Ensure you have a reinforced column in d centre and use the blocks just to increase the size. Don't allow him to mess your building.

You unknowingly bought a govt land which you now know it's illegal.
Now you sold it to another person who will later suffer the consequences of buying illegal land and you are not feeling bad about that.
You are now asking for advice on whether to pay a fee to a criminal agent! You get mind sir!
Wetin do us for this country? Criminals everywhere!!

justified007:
Good evening bosses in the building , I need an urgent advise.

A neighbor packaged a government acquisition land and sold it to me as a genuine land sometimes last year . I was at window level because I got to know it was a government land and surprisingly he never feel sorry for what he did at the end of the day I decided to sell off the land and recover whatever I can get out of my investment and I told him to sell it off since 13 months ago but he couldn't get a buyer before another agent brought a buyer and I sold the property at a lesser price than my investment.

I paid the guy that brought the buyer and the first agent is disturbing me for his agency fee even when he couldn't bring any buyer and I know he's been charging interested people before taking them to the land and he knew I sold the land at a loss o.


Is he entitled to any payment despite not bringing buyer for the property ?

Adedward:
gud dey sir, I don't understand u, u mean nets which kind of nets be this, pls give me details
Of the project, ist casement windows nets or sliding windows nets ? If it casement nets with thick materials it's too much ooooo,

It's casement window nets using thick solid king profile with thick panels