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raymondFirstborn:
A structural engineer would definitely be called upon to have a look at the building,Before erecting.
It all balls down to how old the building is and the soil bearing capacity. If your a building professional you should know better.

but you being a QS outrightly said there is no need for another approval. You are just waking up to realise that a structural engineer would be called upon?.

raymondFirstborn:
sure it's possible, no you don't need to apply for a different approval.
I am a quantity surveyor you can contact me on
09056082348(call & whatsapp)

for professional advice and building estimates as regarding your project.

Raymondfubara@gmail.com

let's desist from giving wrong advices. if you don't know, kindly step aside and read comments. a renovation of that magnitude would need approval and even integrity test on the existing bungalow. Let's build safe.

Rubbiish:
But what does he says he needs the 80 12mm rods for?

12mm should be for baskets but obviously, reinforcements are overbloated.

queensnow:
All NEXT brand and .NEW
For a token

What size is the black wet leather shoe and what is the price. also indicate your location.
Cheers.

reading the topic alone gave me headache. former governor's mother's younger brother. Na wah.

PDP got played

olasworld

Benzy07:
We urgently need a professional Architect in Sangotedo Lagos. The person should indicate and i will get in touch with you.

Hello, please call 08065700664. I reside very close to novare mall.

sinorte:
I am currently sourcing for a construction engineer to build a fence around a piece of land in Ibeshe, Ikorodu. The dimension of the land is 8.41m*18.13m*16.32m*17.83m. I will prefer a 9inch block and 9 coaches. Provisions will be made for a gate.

Kindly drop your bid/quotation, stating the duration of the project.

Thank you

Let me suggest that you receive quotes by email instead of an open bidding process which you have initiated by asking contractors to drop their quotation in the open. my reasons are as follows
1. If you are a layman in the construction industry, there is a 99 percent tendency that you would want to go for the bidder with the lowest contract sum. Although you need to understand that the lowest bid does not always guarantee a qualitative delivery. You need to balance quality of work with contract cost.
2. Every contractor knows that you are on the look out for the lowest contract cost. so assume Mr A gives an estimate of 100 naira, there is a tendency that Mr B would want to give you at 90 naira just to gain your confidence with the 10 naira price difference. And bear in mind that there are more hustling contractors on nairaland that the professional ones.

Cheers

ayee mi ooo. ewo tun ni gender reveal party bayii?

Would you rather have him steal to survive?. Get yourself educated on trivial issues like this. If you are not comfortable with what he does, is there a way you can help him get better? If not, abeg no de complain. Life is tough and alot of young guys have to take the bull by the horns.

check link below to understand importance of donating blood.
http://time.com/2907415/4-unexpected-benefits-of-donating-blood/

mercy! Mercy! Mercy!. you do well. make we know those of us wey remain biko. Arrant nonsense.

so you dey pray and you dey snap pinshure?. keep deceiving your sef. arrant nonsense

Abi which kind thing be this one again. person never chop, this one dey talk of female python pet.
Politicians go give us headache, Tonto and her other yeyebrities go bring their own wahala, Hushpuppi, mompha, Pretty Mike and their numerous colleagues who we can't put a trace to a particular job they do will go about displaying madness.

I opine that we are all not sane in this country try. Those of us that still act normal have not seen what activates our insanity.

one just keeps wondering why we are so unlucky with leadership in this country. when you think you have seen it all, a state government will go on to buy 300 pages off a newspaper to publish how salaries are being paid. We are just so unfortunate in this part of the world.
Well, it's either the owners of leadership newspaper is an ally to the governor or the governor has a stake in the newspaper company.

albeit, Kogi people should start exploring means of unseating their present governor before he plunges them into further penury.

we keep dragging the government into everything. Not forgetting that their responsibility to federal and state universities have not even been met. incessant strikes in government schools have not been solved and we want government to start helping to fund private universities. It can't fit to work.

etenyong:
Only a raft and tout like you make necessary comments about someone's death. Wait for the day when a mad man like you will be mock at you when you will die untimely death.

I see your mediocre and worm infested brain won't allow you accept you have erred even after I have pointed out your blindness. people like you don't just know when to stop displaying your foolery. That been said, run along boy. today isn't your day.

etenyong:
Is it a must to comment? Where did you see Engr. David mentioned in the report. Fools like you are the one spreading falsehood on Internet. Go back and read properly before commenting again.

shebi the craze wey dey worry your head no allow you see the pictures well before you opened that your mouth turned shit hole to talk to me about not reading properly. Buffon that you are!

so 100 level engineering student na him dem don dey tag engr David. like say dem no sabi say this country dey change person destiny.
anyways, RIP to him.

nickxtra:
Builders and Engineers in the house, kindly advise me over this:
I just moved into my new 2 bedroom flat with a BQ self contain, somewhere in Abuja.

I started building the said house when I had little or no experience on the best practices to apply when building a house. That meant that the foundation might not be as strong as it should and there was no German floor.

Since i moved in a few months back, I discovered the walls soaks, causing both the interior painting and external walls to peel.

Although, I intend to tile the external walls to the window level, as well as flooring the surroundings of the building. I also intend to cast pillars to the body of the walls right from the foundation level to support the foundation and the walls.

My worries/questions:
1. Will the above measures reduce the effects of water on the walls?

2. Is there anything I can do to re-enforce the building which would give support to the walls and the foundation of the building?

Or what best do I do to minimize the effect of water on the walls and also to re-enforce the walls/foundation of the building?

the problem is foundation badly done.
You need to understand that corrective measures in buildings are usually more expensive than doing the right thing in the first place. IT'S one thing to be worried about water seepage, it's another things to be ready to put the corrective measures in place. Provided your building has columns supporting the walls, solution is to introduce water proof membrane along the walls. A process that requires you to crack open the walls. This disallows further upward movement of water from the soil.

Using tiles does not come as a permanent solution to this problem in my opinion and it distorts the visual effect of your interior space.

such an abrupt reaction by Law an and Ekweremadu. in their opinion, the bill should be allowed to thrive because of the sponsor but not due to the ingenuity of the bill. overtly mundane thinking. Which means that a bill proposing a specialised university for health sciences would have been turned down if it was sponsored by a first time in the Senate or by anybody other than David Mark.?

Where did we get this crop of myopic leaders sef.

they only got whiter

havillaplus:
Lack of Competent Builders/Contractors
There is a dearth of competent and professional builders/contractors in Nigeria. This is also one of the issues affecting Nigeria real estate industry. Most Nigerian builders/contractors are quacks who place more emphasis on money and the initial mobilisation fee instead of getting the right workforce and professionals that will execute the project.

When this becomes the case, the workforce is chosen based on availability and not competence and having the right skills. Experts have blamed incompetent artisans and weak supervision of workmen as one of the major reasons of building collapse.



Source: http://sapientvendors.com.ng/10-issues-affecting-nigeria-real-estate-industry/#comment-6942

As much as I want to applaud the researcher of this article, I think lack here is a very strong word to use. how do we explain the attitude of clients and developers in employing competent hands in building construction. what you get is a bad contractor when contract sums are poorly negotiated and clients and developers go for the lowest bidder. You may want to research into the "lekki gardens" scheme.
Better put, rather than stating lack of competent builders, the problem is proliferation if half baked contractors who would jump at anything thrown at them.by clients and developers seems more appropriate. THIS is not neglecting greed expressed by clients and developers in maximising profit.

Statsocial:
Huh the same tax that is severely embezzled by Govt and even at FIRS level you can't imagine the level of corruption that would be ongoing. Apapa road is a critically important project with hugr economic significance. If Dangote can construct it within the shortest time then let him have a go at it. If this were to be an FG project do you know the level of misappropriation that would stall the delivery time of d project not to talk of the unnecessary beurecracy.

Still does not justify that he gets a ten year tax holiday behind the books. Tax holiday without a criteria. wether embezzlement at FIRS or wherever, the proposed cost of the project should determine how long tax holiday. the Dangote conglomerate is a very big one already and with his refinery starting operation soon, we just got ourselves shot in the leg, all thanks to Mr 'fix it' 'self acclaimed holy' "78 million website" Fashola

Fashola keeps giving us reasons to know he isn't really as clever and clean as he claims. In as much and we understand that 35km concrete based road is a huge deal, I still don't understand why the rush in declaring a 10 year tax holiday already.
He claimed that they await the road design and obviously, the bill of quantities. I am worried as to how they concluded that a 10 year tax holiday to a conglomerate as large as Dangote group is worth the cost of a 35km concrete road. What happens if at the end of the day, the cost of the road is just equivalent to a 6 year tax payment by Dangote group?. SMH

just in case you still need answers.
Yes. Truly, there is improved power supply on that axis as against 2015. Let me however inform you that , findings have shown that the left hand side enjoys more supply than the right hand side. That is, the areas opposite shop rite, crown estate and farapark have more power supply than the side where those landmarks are located.

Cheers.

McIrx:
We acknowledged your CV for the position of Sales Executive. You are hereby invited for an interview at
our Head Office Meganet Mobile Ltd. 13th Floor, Bookshop House, 50/52, Broad Street, CMS, Lagos

I've checked online but wasn't really satisfied with the information I have.
Please help out with more info about the firm and how to get to the address from Ikorodu.

congrats on your invite.
unfortunately, I don't have any info about the firm but I can sure help out with getting there.
take a brt bus from anywhere in ikorodu to CMS. once you drop at cms, locate the pedestrian bridge and use it to get to the other side of the road. once on the other side, ask for bookshop house. it's trekable.
cheers

Naomi222:
Am proudly ijero ekiti born pls add to the group 08069024346

welcome Naomi.
it was my first time visiting Ijero last month. beautiful and ancient town with an interesting undulating landscape. Please remind me not to go back there without a cardigan. That place is chilling cold. mobile network in Ijero isn't fair. could be due to the undulating landscape.

Mhizizzy:
Hello, you could be my brother. M also from Iyin

Do well to check very well o. same way Op turned out to be my sister. blood related sister.

a person is in need and people that can easily help out will tell you to go and pray to God.
How did we even get here sef.