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Cement (Depending on Site Location)

901 bags and above = 1,520 naira
601 - 900 bags = 1,550 naira
301 - 600 bags = 1,580 naira
100-300 = 1,600 naira


Sharp sand - 20 tonnes = 42,000Naira
Granite - 30 tonnes = 127,000naira
Granite dust - 30 tonnes = 115,000naira

Reinforcement

Nigerian imported - 1 tonne = 140,000 naira
Locally made........- 1 tonne (12mm and 16mm) = 130,000 naira
Locally made........- 1 tonne (10mm) = 135,000 naira

Wood

1 x 12 plank.....Machine cut = 950
2 x 3 plank ....Machine cut. = 320

Hollow Block (Vibrated)

6 inches = 160
9 inches = 190

Filling sand

20 tonnes = 37,000

BRC Mesh .............4mm = 15,000
Binding wire .....20kg Bundle = 6,500
Nails .....................1 bag = 5,000 (Local) , 6,500 (UK)
DPM .....................1 roll = 6,000

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Raconteur , a famous UK-based media that publishes special-interest content to the world’s leading media brands, recently uncovered the world’s most beautiful buildings, as voted for by over 400 readers and architects. The 1,200 votes in the survey revealed architectural treasures from far and wide. From the East to the West, remnants of ancient civilizations feature alongside modern high-rise structures.

As some may have anticipated, there is no single structure or building located in sub-saharan Africa on the list (as on several other Architectural recognition lists as this). The Pyramids of Gizza ,built in ancient Egypt, remains the only edifice that appears on this particular list. If you are an inquisitive African man like this writer, you may tend to ask: "When will we start having landmark Architectural structures as those on this list on our continent?". "What are the things putting our Architecture and strutcural creativity in the back row?". "Is this another case of bias against many things made in Africa?". ...or "Is it just up to us to celebrate and promote our own'?". Sincere opinions on this subject are highly welcomed.

Take a look through the infographic below illustrating the readers’ choice of the world’s most beautiful buildings, and see if your favourite has made the top 10.


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10. Install an alarm system

For much larger projects an alarm system would make a lot of impact, when you consider the financial impact of theft. Very few thieves have much confidence to stick around once the alarm sounds. You know those alarms used nowadays to alert ourselves when NEPA supplies light while we are using generator. Exactly, no one wants that attention.


Please feel free to share your opinions on the above tips shared or add any more tips from your personal experiences on construction sites. Thanks.

9. Notify The Police of Any Suspicious Attempt to Breach Your Site Security

This may seem like an effective clichéd solution to many Nigerians for some obvious reasons but we should not forget that ‘The Police is Still Our Friend’. Most site thieves live in the vicinity of your site, and they may have a history which is already familiar with the police in that area. You can always invite officers from the police station around your site location in cases of site theft. Once the presence of the police is seen on your site by your seen and unseen robbers, there will surely be some message of security beef up passed across.

8. Shine a light on the problem

Site thieves’ don’t usually come armed and also don’t want the spotlight. Having lights on the site discourages them from gaining easy entrance as they are aware they can be easily seen and maybe held by vigilantes. In the era of jungle justice, no thief wants to be held and given the tire treatment. Most sites close by 7pm, and by 7am someone is most likely on the site. During this 12 hour period site thieves are most active. Make provision for adequate lighting for your site at night if you have valuables you don’t want to lose.

7. Secure your tools and materials

It sounds simple, but too often we wait until the close of the day to pack tools and materials we are no longer using into the store. The problem with this is that some workers on other sites simply come around and pick it up on the pretext they simply want to borrow it. By the end of the day your measuring tapes, hammers, shovels, diggers, wheel barrows, generators are gone. If you are not using them let them be kept in the store. Materials like reinforcement can be chained with padlocks, and wood planks used for the foundation could be used to build a temporary house pending its reuse for the decking.

6. Keep inventory

A small book to keep a record of all materials on site can save you hundreds of thousands of Naira. Not knowing the inventory of your items is a loophole which laborers with criminal mindset explore easily. After all, no one can easily know 10 bags of cement was stolen overnight if the last count was a week ago, and several bags had been used for various works since then.

5. Coordinate Deliveries Of Materials And Appliances

Ensure these items arrive close to the time they will be used or installed. Be there at the delivery or have some trusted person to represent you because suppliers at times don’t deliver the quantities in full. Materials like reinforcement, cement, wood should be delivered few days before they are needed, and counted immediately.

4. Observe site workers

During construction you will have as many people on your site as possible, especially during days for casting concrete. You can’t verify the attitude of all the workers who work on your project. A simple way to go is to assess and identify the few workers you started with and have been of good character, and ask them to recommend additional workers when you need more hands. Because our friends are much like us, whoever they recommend would be of similar character. A bricklayer supervisor with criminal tendencies would have criminals as laborers.

3. Employ security guards

Nothing beats an onsite patrol. While many Nigerian home owners consider it an excess expense or just give tips to some ‘Aboki’ guards or vigilante’s in the neighbourhood, it is clear that these informal arrangement will not make such guards fully accountable in case of any case of theft.

2. Build a fence

At the early stage of your project, having a fence and accompanying gates would deter thieves. If you can afford it, build your fence first or you could just have used iron sheets to surround your site and have a gate with locks. This would make it hard for thieves who live near the construction site to make off with plywood, planks, cement, tools and other valuables.

Theft at home construction sites are major causes of headache to both building contractors and home owners. Some workers have been jailed while others have been wrongly accused. Thieves target these sites and make off with valuable building materials. Building sites in developing areas like ikorodu are as affected as sites in developed areas like Yaba. Site workers and greedy site managers also connive to further enrich themselves at the expense of the client’s funds.

Here are some tips:

1. Make Good Security Provision For Site Storage

You can build a suitable site house with some plywood ( or few dozens of 1x12 plank), 2x3 wood, and a bundle of iron sheets. A good carpenter can finish one in a day. You may consider giving the site guard, contractor and site supervisor joint responsibility for the safety of the materials.

Thanks HostKobo,
We'd have a blog which we linked back to, but due to the recent changes in our site we will be redesigning it. Once it's done we will go with your advice.

hostkobo:
Hi cribpark,
I read ur article on NL. Thanks for the info. Just to advice, I visited your website but couldn't find your blog. An excellent article like this should be published to your blog, and then maybe a paragraph or two posted on NL, with a link back to your site, thus readers are lead to your site and would have the opportunity to be informed about your products and services.

It also provides non NL visitors to be informed
Regards,
HK

Thanks Chinom

Chinom:
@Cribpark, a nice way to advertise your business. Some relatives a not reliable, but many building contractors are also big thieves. It's risky to channel money directly to them. A trusted somebody is needed to monitor them. Could be a relative or a good friend.

Thanks

artizanni:
Hello Cribpark,

Beautiful, we are always open to collaboration. Kindly check your page on vc4africa for us to discuss the collaboration in detail, we have left a message for you there.

Also, we will be pitching(Hopefully) at the next Startup Friday Event in Abuja, so you are welcome to meet the team.

Hello, no problem here
Thanks for checking us out, we really appreciate. You can buy your materials from us
We are still focused on being a marketplace for building materials, but interestingly a lot of our recent orders have come from people in the diaspora who are building in Nigeria.
So we are not exactly competitors, we can collaborate.

artizanni:
Hello Cribpark,

Your comments are welcome, though according to what we know from VC4Africa, Cribpark is into Online sales of Construction Materials (You Guys are actually the most well Structured).

Yes, we got carried away, But thats in check now.

We understand that you may be pivoting into our domain, thats welcome, the more, the merrier.

Have a lovely weekend.

Cheers.

Hello Artizanni,
Your comments are welcome, we understand your company is doing something related and you must have found the topic quite applicable and interesting. However, at a point your comments seemed to have been enough to make another thread.
We also do something similar like your company, but this thread was meant to engage with people and share experiences. Sometimes it is just cool to engage with people.
Thanks for adding your posts, you have thrown in some light

artizanni:
Hello,

1.Most certainly this Thread was not set up by us.

2.Also, while we have obviously been a bit over-interested to comment on the thread, it in no way reflects on the Personality of the Company, or the Company management.

3. The Op did not set this topic up to a restricted audience. The Topic is in the public domain, and since the OP stated the Problems, We stated the Solutions we have created that destroys these problems. Stating solutions to a set of problems that we have formed a Company to solve does not equate to marketing, If we want to market, we know how to advertise officially on nairaland.

4. Conscience: We have not solicited for money from the public, we have not criticized any SOLUTION the OP might have posted, and we most certainly have not asked the public to do business with us. The OP posted Problems, We posted Solutions. It is as simple as that, no thread was Hijacked.

5. It will most certainly be IDIOTIC for the public to Trust any body or Company with their hard earned money. The SMART thing to do is to check out the company, and checkout the SECURED gurantees the Company has put in place to Safeguard their money in a risk free manner, and deliver quality projects in time. We are not asking the public to TRUST us.

6. We do not have any history or reference on NAIRALAND because we are not trying to WIN the Business of Nairalanders. We have representatives in 8 Countries that do that directly for us. Client Confidentiality is CRUCIAL to how we do business, as such we will neither post pictures of Buildings under construction, without EXPRESS Client approval.

7. We are not new in this service, the quality of our strategic partners speak for us, we merely saw a topic, that FALLS into our EXACT business niche, and we thought it important to educate the public on Our Solutions, since the OP has educated them on the Problems.

8. The diaspora Real estate business is a 2.1 Billion Dollar/Year business in Nigeria, 1.8 Billion dollars/year in Botswana, and 1.2 Billion Dollar/year in Kenya, these are our next Target Markets, and so we most certainly are beyond guerrilla marketing..

They both have their pros and cons.
By building your house you should spend less, you can build in phases, and also control the quality of your project. However you are faced with the unsavoury issues like omo-onile, contract disputes, delays etc
Buying your house may be expensive but it is faster and strips away a lot of bad experiences which happen during construction. However you are also faced with the possibility of poor quality of work, hidden terms and conditions which dont favor you, and more.

whocanbewho:
To me the best solution is to buy a ready made house. It might be more expensive but u'll save yourself a lot of headache and you will get your choice.

lol. You are welcome

enoch273:
I never build house o, neither do I stay in boys quarter self, but I must comment, because I believe in the beauty of my dreams....

Nice one OP

True. A professional's involvement in your project rather than the family member allows you to be able to take objective discussions without worrying about how family relationships would be affected.

222Martins:
The issue of shrouding your building project and any other investment in secrecy is something most of us in Nigeria are guilty of. I think it is a Nigerian factor that stems from the fear of evil people and security concerns. As for the issue of handing your project to a family member, i don't do such. I would rather give it to someone without blood or friend ties; so that when the chips are down, i can skin the person alive without feeling an iota of pity or regret.

True. The family members can just provide oversight

lonelydora:
Nice write up. It's better to involve a professional contractor to build your house and then tell your brothers to just visit the site, than allowing your brothers handle the whole project. Most think people think money grows on trees in US, not knowing that it's not as easy as they think.

Wahala plenty for this brother thing.

Take Away Tips To Consider when building from Diaspora
• Involve people you trust most and who have demonstrated financial discipline, and not necessarily people you love most.

• Do not send huge sums of money at once. Instead, send the money gradually.

• Ensure project updates include pictures, video, budget and other site activities

• Don’t walk alone. Join a housing group where you can share information about your project and ask questions.

• Buy land from estate developers who do a proper layout. Because most people buying the land are middle class like you, there is a better chance of having a posh neighbourhood.

• Dont hesitate to hire a professional. Registered professionals have a reputation, but sure they are more expensive. Your trusted persons can do oversight functions and manage the project.

• If you feel your project is moving way too slow, it may be a time to take caution. Stop the project temporarily and send another friend or family who has not been involved in the project to give an independent assessment.

• Don’t spend all your resources on your housing project if you have a thriving business at the moment which also needs more investment. You can design your house in a way that allows you to build in phases, so you have extra money to invest in your business.

• Please feel free to share your opinions on the above tips shared or add any more tips from your personal experiences on construction sites. Thanks.


Further enquiries, suggestions and private questions can be directed to the writer in private message here on Nairaland or via info@cribpark.com or Call/Whatsapp 08025059733.

To Build or Invest
You are living in a studio apartment in Canada, but you have built a mansion in that part of your village where there is no light, no road and no other storey building. You only use the house during Christmas and New Year. Sometimes you wonder if it wouldn’t have been better if you spent the bulk of the money on your business, than on the house that now looks more like a social investment. Now your mansion is the biggest in your village, but even the smallest house in the city is more valuable than yours.

Location! Location!! Location!!!
You lived in New York; we know, at least we have heard your accent. We also know you don’t want GRA Ikeja because they only have initial gra-gra, Ikorodu sounds like a noodle, Mowe is too small, let us not even mention Alakuko or Alagbado. You have been exposed to a good quality of life out there, but thanks to money laundering politicians who spend the money on real estates the price has gone high like a kite in the wind. Now, you can only admire the buildings as you realise getting a lush green neighbourhood with side walks is a luxury only few can afford. But to say the truth, if you are waiting to have the money to build in these high-brow areas, you may end up not building.

Quality of Structure
So you just arrived Naija and entered your new house. You tried the first switch and it instantly got broken, the door doesn’t close properly, the water heater is leaking, the wall looks like it was moulded rather than plastered, and you still wonder why the “state-of-art window burglary” your interior decorator promised you looks like the painted version of the iron bars protruding from the balcony decking. You wonder even if the building is safe to live in, yet everyone is complementing you on how big your house is and how it is worth 45 million Naira. I don’t know how much mediocrity paid, but he seems to be well accepted and popular in the housing industry. Quality is a big issue and because detailed artisans are few, the good ones are overpriced.

Slowly But Surely Projects
They started digging for the foundation in Nigeria when you were in winter in Canada, by spring -they were still digging; during autumn and summer the digging continued; and by the next winter they were still doing digging reloaded. You begin to wonder if they are digging for your foundation or they are trying to discover oil. Maybe it has been long since you left Naija, and it may sound cliché, but things still work extremely slowly in Nigeria. Most of our efforts in the building industry are manual. It doesn’t mean it should get as bad as digging for months though.

Being Too Secretive
When you were running your project you did not want to make so much noise in the family. Your dad knew, some of your brothers didn’t know. Later you started having issues of management on site and you had to inform some more family members, eventually everyone you didn’t tell got to know and it became an issue. To avoid stories that touch, ensure your close family members are aware if you have a supportive one, an extra pair of eyes on your project would do no harm.

‘Calamity ‘ supervision
It is not hard to know a staircase made by “proudly naija artisans”. For some part of the steps you don’t even need to lift your leg high enough to move to the next step, while some steps are so high you wonder if it was still a step and not a fence.
You need a professional to handle your project. You don’t want to sit down jeje in UK and you hear a building has collapsed in Lagos only to realise it is your site. Most times, the older brothers, uncles and aunts who are handling our home construction have acquired building practices that are unsafe overtime, and in a culture where respect for elders is paramount, you need someone with guts who would insist on the right thing.

Scamming Relatives
Junior was one of your favourite brothers and you never hesitated about giving him the task of handling your home project. He kept sending you pictures of ‘your house’ in Ajah. The pictures always looked so great and were constantly updated. Though you noticed the picture hardly depicted the surrounding houses, but it didn’t matter to you. Eventually you had to be in Nigeria for an unscheduled visit and that was where problem started. First Junior claimed labourers were on strike, later he claimed the state government banned access to the site’s neighbourhood. You went ahead anyway to realise the site was as empty as the pot we keep in the kitchen cabinet. That was how your hard earned money turned into Junior’s allowee.

Building a house in Nigeria is a social status. We all want a permanent home address and the desire doesn’t end when we travel. Infact, a sizeable portion of the $25billion sent by diasporans to Nigeria last year must have gone into residential housing projects. If you are in the Diaspora and you are building in Nigeria, you must be familiar with these scenarios and you can learn from the solutions proffered.

Very good points Sunnyfats. Thanks for your input.

sunnyfats:
Additionaly, you can reduce the amount of sand you ll buy especially to sand fill the rooms etc, just simply dig the septic tanks (soak away) first, the sand will fill about 3 bedrooms (depending). If you need more sand, just dig a well and you won't need to buy any additional sand, also, there will be no need to buy water or reservoir.
In addition to the OP advice, don't waste resources by building a seperate toilet and bathroom, they can share1 small room.
Lastly, ask questions, do research, don't just collect a quote from your contractors and start sending money, confirm first and you ll be surprised how much you ll end up saving.
Good luck

Thanks a lot boss! Your comment is well appreciated.

ictmikky:
Awesome! Rich and real contents. Keep up the good work, you'll surely excel