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olumide4christ:
[b]I was a consultant on a project - Redeemed Christian Church of God , Good Shepherd Pasture Parish, (picture attached), situated at Alagomeji bus stop, Yaba, Lagos. Its just a 3-storey building, yet a lift was incorporated in the building.

The foundation work on that RCCG parish was intensive. I am happy a nairalander was involved in the project.

Any idea on this sanitary ware product: ARMITAGE SHANKS? I observed that some sanitary wares that were very white at purchase/installation become brownish or off-white with time and this is very annoying.
Segcymoor,aventure,mufutau55,mavverick,abdulwastex,endiasami, every other person.

fash78:
That is what I wanted to do but the tiler said it is easier to clean a dirty tile than get a screeded wall soil with sand and cement while tiling

I came to same conclusion a few weeks ago after thinking deeply about it. I agree with your tiler. Trying to get splashed cement off a screeded wall could spoil a neatly done screeding work.

rotecch77:
@danowano,if you scroll back you will see how I constructed the drainage for easy free flow of water more so there is also a road vat the back of the building where I channeled the rain water to, lastly I design this type of flooring for the house just bcs i don't want any water to sink and also wanted the place to have solid floor that is why I used wire Mech

Nice one

bebe2:
Lol@num 4

Tanks a lot will get a structural engineer.

Who is a aventures?

Aventures is one of the most honest and trusted structural engineer on Nairaland. Although he is not very active online. Check his profile.

https://www.nairaland.com/aventures

Cc: mufutau55

I hope the honour is not mere handshakes and photographs. There should be tangible monetary reward as well.

bebe2:
Am about to purchase this very property . It's not Wat I wanted but I have to compromise because the search process is wearing me out and the money is slowly dwindling away .

The issue is from the look of the property. , the road seem higher than the house.

And the house is way lower than the driveway.
Is this a red flag for erosion problem?

Ps. The property is in ijesha surulere lagos.

Spyder880
Segcymoor
Mufutau55
Egunmogaji

Madam, please do your due diligence which will cost you very little compared to the value of the house. Get a structural engineer like aventures to actually visit the house. And let him give you his professional sincere assessment. I know people who have bought houses thinking they had a good bargain only to realise the houses they bought has structural issues. I even know one that demolished the house thereby loosing close to 35 million if u value only the land. Follow these steps please:

1. Get a certified structural engineer to make an assessment (not online advise).
2. If structural engineer gives a go ahead, get a lawyer to go through the the paper work and verify from the ministry of justice that there is no litigation on the land. Otherwise you have entered one chance. The lawyer is also to do serious background checks for you.
3. If 1 & 2 is okay, then go to step 4.
4. Send me 2% of the value of purchase. Check my signature for account details.

Oooops:
Lalasticlala

Very nice advise but u need to tidy up the writing. Too many repetitions. I kept getting lost whilst reading.

rotecch77:
Thanks chief Kenny and others
080666619493

I am always weary of slopy lands. Although building on it could be very 'architectural' and beautiful. How are you going to control the rain water generated from within? Pass it to the next compound at the back? i am quite puzzled.

Additionally, this casting and patterning concept;is it not more expensive than baking your interlocking? Because I can see you want it to have interlocking effect.

by the way, you are doing a very beautiful job.

rotecch77:
More progress

Wow!

EgunMogaji:
For those who might want to get into automating their homes, Samsung is having a 20% July 4th sale on their Smart things home automation stuff. If you register you also get an additional 10% off making 30% off.

Just a thought.

Baba, Na for where?UK,USA , NAIJA?

segcymoor:
General external works in progress

Is dat screeding going on?

rotecch77:
Power shower

Please how much is the power shower?

TouchstoneNgr:
That would have given you 11 doors.

I am so pissed...

TouchstoneNgr:
Subframe is not required for our doors.

That is so cool. I spent close to 800k on subframes.

TouchstoneNgr:
The door leaf is installed, door frame foamed using PU foam.

So u mean there was no need for sub frame in fixing this door? I still observed that most the doors u fix don't seem to have subframes as well. Please enlighten me.

mavverick:
You know i am not an engineer.
When I saw a window which was not straight from the inside, I complained to the mason and this was fixed.
They dont mould angle beads, its like strong aluminium material, the one i showed in that picture is usually used for corners for internal skimming, the external ones are bigger, see pic.

I am guessing you mean precast window hood as they dont mould angle beads. I dont think that can correct from inside without some kind of remedial re-plaster and using a plum etc to ensure its straight.

erico2k2:
We can't use such in 9ja cos of the type of mortar we use. Cos U av to sand is down

Yea....sorry..I misconstrued your earlier write up. The angle beads would have been wonderful if we are able to use it here.

mufutau55:
More reason is better to mount/affix the windows before those hoods are done.
Hajji M.

Yes sir...I totally agree for the windows to be fixed prior to window hoods being moulded.

I know someone that used subframes before the windows were dressed and I must confess that it came out nice,neat and fitted. Very minor openings were sealed silicon gel.

mavverick:
You know i am not an engineer.
When I saw a window which was not straight from the inside, I complained to the mason and this was fixed.
They dont mould angle beads, its like strong aluminium material, the one i showed in that picture is usually used for corners for internal skimming, the external ones are bigger, see pic.

I am guessing you mean precast window hood as they dont mould angle beads. I dont think that can correct from inside without some kind of remedial re-plaster and using a plum etc to ensure its straight.

erico2k2:
We can't use such in 9ja cos of the type of mortar we use. Cos U av to sand is down

Yea....sorry..I misconstrued your earlier write up. The angle beads would have been wonderful if we are able to use it here.

mufutau55:
More reason is better to mount/affix the windows before those hoods are done.
Hajji M.

Yes sir...I totally agree for the windows to be fixed prior to window hoods being moulded.

I know someone that used subframes before the windows were dresses and I must confess that it came out nice,neat and fitted. Very minor openings were sealed silicon gel.
I ask all these because I am considering not using the hood at all or using the bottom one alone.

mavverick:
Dont quote me on this.
What I sometimes see with artisans is that the lining of the windows may not be straight.
In some refurb/rebuilds that I have done (not in nija), what we do on walls is use angle beading. This gives that corner strength and ensures a neater job, a very good chance of ensuring the corners are straight as well.

In nija, although they use cement I find that depending on the skill of the bricklayer, they do not always get it straight. When you have window hoods, it will mask the problem from the outside, but not on the inside if its badly done.

Mind, there are 2 types of angle beading, one is used for drywall skimming and there is an external one used for cement plastering.

Many thanks.Very thought provoking. But my curiosity now is about those that mould the angle beads before fixing the windows. Especially for correcting from inside.

Now to window hoods... What is the functionality of window hoods on the Windows aside from aesthetics? What is the use of having all round hoods (like photo1)? Is just a bottom hood not enough (like the other photos)?

PS...photos courtesy of Oga segcymoor and Oga skimanski

EgunMogaji:
Bored so started playing around with charts on the spreadsheet.

~8,000 blocks not counting fence

Baba dat is the way we see it o o... The whole thing go just tire you. But just do it one step at a time. The Lord is your strength.

topsy23:
I ve heard about the product but I ve not use it. A&B is different from ABB. I can't say much about the product

Oh....thanks.

spyder880:
I installed this in a house last year. No complaints since then. Good brand.

Thanks

mavverick:
When i bought my DB about 7/8 months ago, I was told about this brand and that it is very good. I know of AB and I know of ABB made in England, I believe in the end I went for ABB as the price difference was not much. Mind, this was all before the forex thing went up north, about 14 or 16k or so each then.

Thanks!

Does anyone know this DB product? How good/original is it?
Topsy23 , spyder880, segcymoor, mufutau55, etc

diordaves:
My top three wasteful build/design concept in rental properties.
What's your top three wasteful practice anyone?

In your opinion, is there any need to tile the walls of a visitor's toilet (one that has no shower of any sort?). If I am correct, the walls are mainly tiled to restrict water from soaking the walls. Is this not wasteful in a rental property? (Images are borrowed)

@ QC1,

If I may ask , were there no reinforcements used for this german floor? I can't see any iron rod in these pictures. Perhaps I am not looking well.

You can build a house with that earnings. Simply by a cheap dry land you can afford, start buying blocks (bit by bit - say 20 blocks at a time) with the maximum you can spare. once it is plenty enuff for foundation, then save up to do the foundation for a bungalow. Try to complete a room and move in (no need to paint, just plaster it if you can). Then complete the second room and third room (depending on how big you want). Then from there complete parlour and roof everything. You may have further questions as to how you can be roofing it room by room.
This is the method some vulcanisers, bricklayers,mechanics and other artisans built their own house.

Some people that are forming big boy today are tenants whilst the artisans telling them 'yes sir, yes sir' are landlord (irrespective of the location of their homes).
I hope this helps. Be wise,be smart and be humble.

Onuokwu:
This is after St. Finbarr's coming from Unilag. To be precise, around the Kemist B/stop area (by the Total gas station). The area is not that close to the lagoon but for Akoka, Gbagada and other sorrounding areas,the soil bearing capacity is notoriously low. Before the town planning guys will even accept a building plan from you to consider for approval, it must be accompanied by a soil investigation report like they did in my case. I actually bought the property with the full knowledge that i would have to demolish the existing structure on it because it had "settled". The soil investigation report recommended "pile" and since i was looking at multilevel, the diameter was wider. I imagine a bungalow there will require piles with smaller diameter.

That community/moronfolu street axis also have same soil problem. I abandoned the option to purchase a value property there because children of the deceased owner permitted me to do a limited soil test. With the result, i could not see any economically viable options to own and hold the property.

Just like you mentioned, the soil bearing capacity of those areas are terrible and this includes the Maryland area. People always scream mainland but do not realise that the soil bearing capacity of the island is better than some of those on the mainland.

EgunMogaji:
Interesting.

If I don't install gutter on the garage apartment roof then the roof run off will damage the fence.

If I don't install gutter on the main house then the internal courtyard may get flooded during rain.

I don't know how ugly a$$ rain gutters improve the looks of a house

Lolzzz....I was only pulling your legz sir. I knew you had stronger reasons than 'ecological' ones.

n3xt:
Roof gutter to channel water for inside ocean? No! You've been there before you should know the problem is not water seeping from ground but lack of drainage to direct the water to.
This explains the reason why so many big structure on that road are unoccupied and are advertised for sale without buyer for years.

Once the road gets filled up, the water backflow into the plots and continue to rise . The worse part is the new Ologolo road which divide the main Ologolo road into 2. This means unless there's serious intervention, those areas will continue to experience serious water issue until they do drainage to link up the new road or connect to whitesand.

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If you know that building then you'll know the Reserve. The reserve is not that far inside and no water issue for 2 years now (2014 - 2016).

And funny enough, both buildings are the same design. Just that one felt the design is not ok and decided to add more to it. Like making 4 to 6 or 7 and putting cantilevers on building that wasn't designed to have one from foundation.

Just like mavverick mentioned, the water actually seeps from the ground and I believe there is little or nothing that you can do about such. The drainage is an issue alright but the general water level of that area is high. This can easily be confirmed by looking at the level of water of wells in the area. Just like my mainland area, the water level of the wells in the area is often less than a metre (depending on the level of your filling) from ground level in the rainy season.