Fhemmmy:

Why not post the plan here and you never know other people too might contribute one or two things.
Others too might be able to steal one or 2 ideas from your plan

How is cement sold now in Enugu and around East, say Imo state and Abia.

spyder880:

I do not think there is any problem with that. Once you do a decking, its like another house on top entirely, and as long as your blocks are laid where they are specified on the plans, the type or size of blocks wont matter, in fact the smaller the weight on the top floor, the better for the building.
Blocks are important, but not as important as other fittings in the house, just used to close the open walls as the pillars and beams are the real deal in weight support and overall house strenght.

Thanks so much point noted.

spyder880:

Let me use a few minutes to talk about my house, as it relates to my current taste. When I started my house, it was clear to me that I had a need, I just want to build and live in my house as soon as possible and that is my only target. Anything that will make me stay a day longer where am living right now is not helping me. So my efforts are geared towards providing my immediate family with quality shelter, and not a glamorous or luxury finish.
I recognize the fact that am not the richest person in this country, and there are many more things to do with money than building my residential home, investing is uppermost in my mind and I always like to build commercial houses at this stage, luxury will come when my investments start to yield bountiful returns.
Therefore, my proposal is to finish my house thus;
High quality long span aluminium roofing sheet, not step tiles.
I will not do the gutter roof design, aluminium sheets will be used to form beautiful ceiling to my bottom outside roofing.
Only my front door and back exit door are going to be security doors, maybe my bedroom and my wife's rooms too, all other doors will be wooden doors.
Only my living room will be fitted with POP ceiling, all other rooms will have any of these types, the asbestors ceiling, plastic ceiling, suspended ceiling or designed wooden ceiling.
I may not use the highest quality twyford toiletries, middle of the range products will do for me.

This is in line with present reality for me, by the time I become mega rich, I will build a castle in an island off Victoria Island and paste the pictures here, later I will move my family there from this one.
However, if am building for a client who can afford the most elegant of luxurious fittings, I will give him a house that will rival IBB's Minna castle, and trust me, I will scatter this forum with the pictures!

I am using 9'' non hollo blocks for the down floor can i use 6'' hollo blocks upstairs or i have to use same 9'' hollo block upstairs for my project. what do you think.

Am Alone:

Spyder - Thanku
Payless - Thank2
Chaircover - Thank2
More grease 2yours 2
in all u do!
Peace

CONGRATULATIONS, am happy for you.

AM ALONE, It cost me N120,000 just for the plan. As soon as i receive the plan i will post it here as well. Due to unstable nature of building matrials i have decided to buy materials first before building the house. so far i have molded about 8500 (4000 non-hollow and 4500 hollow), bought gravel (5tipper), stone (4tipper), sand (20tipper), rod (different sizes) N250,000. Fencing is already done including security house. Bought 2 tanks for water. My builder is saying that he will charge me N1,000,000 just for labour, i have not replied him yet i told him to give me time to save money for cement and we will talk. Mind you the house is 2bedrooms with palour on the down floor, 4 rooms upstairs with palour,penth-house is 1room with it's convinence. All rooms has its own toilet,bath and walk-in closets. Any advice generally.

Am Alone:

Bros you ask after me, you try oooo - wao!
And I bring too much beter oooo

Thanks so much. i make sure i use same when my project is up there. Do they come in different colours.

Am Alone:

The roofing of my house commence two day ago.
And from the look of things, it is going to take 2 more
extra days. I just hope you like the finish product of the roofing sheet.
Total money spent on the roofing sheet alone is 1,466,000.00

435m2 of Stone coated tiles 870pcs @ 2700 ==== 1,174,500.00
94pcs of angle ridges by 1.45m        @ 1580 ====   148,520.00
3pcs    of power paint black            @ 3000 ====        9000.00
40kg    of stone nail                       @ 3000 ====     12,000.00
20meter of aluminum verda brion for gutter @ 1100 == 22,000.00
Tranportation ======                                  ===     15,000.00
Installation @ 200 per square meter ========            85,000.00

Total paid: 1,466,000.00

This is the best I could do! I tried my very best, some places I went, the
roofing sheet goes for as much as 3,480 per square meter.
But i got is for 2,700.00 and the thickness is 4.5mm which is the highest guage(as i was informed)
for the stone coated roofing sheet. The 4mm is a bit lighter. But the 4.5mm is quite better.
But again, you can compare it to aluminum even 7mm thickness. Stone coated is far thicker and heavier!
Peace

what is the life span of your roof over that of aluminum,

@ spyder please when you have time can you post house with penth house. It cost me N120,000 just for the plan. As soon as i receive the plan i will post it here as well. Due to unstable nature of building matrials i have decided to buy materials first before building the house. so far i have molded about 8500 (4000 non-hollow and 4500 hollow), bought gravel (5tipper), stone (4tipper), sand (20tipper), rod (different sizes) N250,000. Fencing is already done including security house. Bought 2 tanks for water. My builder is saying that he will charge me N1,000,000 just for labour, i have not replied him yet i told him to give me time to save money for cement and we will talk. Mind you the house is 2bedrooms with palour on the down floor, 4 rooms upstairs with palour,penth-house is 1room with it's convinence. All rooms has its own toilet,bath and walk-in closets. Any advice generally.

@spyder880 , i was told by my builder that building a house with pen-house is outdated, meaning no-one is building house with pen house anymore, i have not been to nigeria for 11yrs now. should i change the plan to exclude penhouse or go with my choice.

@spyder880, I am about to start up six bedroom duplex in imo state and the idea is to use NON-HOLLOW BLOCK at the down floor and hollow block at the upper floor. whats ya advice.

@oyinbogoju please can you email me these plans to ib75usa@yahoo.com.