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In addition to the gate I also need supplier for plaster sands in Lagos. We are about starting plastering work for my project. Please submit your quotes for 20Ton and 30Ton plaster sands. The location of the project is Iyana-Oba in Lagos. Please send me your quote

Welders or iron gate suppliers in the house. I am presently in the stage of constructing fence for my project in Lagos. I am looking for people who are into gates and fence grill fabrications. Any interested supplier and or artisan should please get in touch. Drop your numbers here and send me pictures of your design with price to me.
Thanks.

Welders or iron gate suppliers in the house. I am presently in the stage of constructing fence for my project in Lagos. I am looking for people who are into gates and fence grill fabrications. Any interested supplier and or artisan should please get in touch. Drop your numbers here and send me pictures of your design with price to me.
Thanks.

You may be suffering from sleep apnoea.
It is a sleep disorder that if untreated could lead to other health issues like high blood pressure etc. I will advice you to go for sleep study to rule out sleep apnoea.
That is my 50cent.

nwafuluozoh:
Charles said 99% of Nigerian entertainers are for GEJ. He wasn't talking about Yoruba actors and actresses.
Daramola take note.

And Yoruba actors and actresses are not Nigerian entertainers? I guess they are from Ghana!

Kachisbarbie:
she is always heavily 'enbalmed' for my liking...
...her pics always professional/photoshopped!
Damn!
I miss the days when we took pictures with the average camera phone...

Now iphone5/6/samsung/blackberry + camera 360 + instagram + picmix + photo-editor + filtermama = Fine girl

...won't let us know who is who. naija girls now be looking like asians...O'ga o...

[b]BTW why are her muscles looking like that of 'spartacus' in the second pic - in a golden gown?

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@ "spartacus"

@small small, I will definately keep you guys updated as work progresses.

@smallsmall, Elfadconsult is also the builder. He and his team designed the building and he supervised the construction.
@ Hajji Muftau, thanks for staying in touch wih this thread. We have completed the roofing a couple of week ago. The pictures of the current state of the building are attached.

Thanks my brother

@ timothy001 I hired elfadconcept04 as site engineer/supervisor/planner/etc based on an agreed sum of money that is now spread over each phase of the project.

We have been able to peg the projected cost of the building to 32M as against 53M in the BOQ by doing the following among other things:

1. Buying materials directly from source e.g cement from factory (be prepare to buy full load of trailers), wood from sawmill directly ( you must know someone at the sawmill you trust very well like a close friend or family to go this route) etc.

2. Be directly involved in labor fee negotiations - myself and elfadconcept 04 don't agree on my approach of negotiation but by being involved directly in negotiating labour fees, I have saved some money. For you to do this successfully, you must strive to gain some knowledge on how to do some simple costing like how much Naira/ton for iron bender charges, how much is average mason charge per amount of block set, the hardest to quantify is the carpenter labour fee (but i normally use daily rate multiply by total number of days to finish a particular work).
Also you can call up guys like Spyder, Bosun et all on this forum if you are ever in doubt and they will give you some solid advice on labour cost.

Now based on my projections, I though we will be able to do the building carcass for N14.5M, we are now at N15.6M up to the carcass stage.
I am hoping if we missed the N32M budget, it wont be more than a couple of Millions (say 2-4M). That will be strictly due to the type of finishing I finally choose.

Lol @ family house. This building is primarily for commercial purposes.

Guys sorry the format of the substructure cost posted above is messed up. I have attached the spread sheet with the same information in a more readable format

Guys as promised, see the breakdown of my cost for the sub-structure materials and labour. By sub-structure i mean from foundation to DPC aka German Floor.

SUB-STRUCTURE (Material)

Description Unit Unit Cost (N) Total Cost (N) Note Cement 500 1510 755000 All purpose elephant cement
Granite 5.5 130000 715000 5.5 Trips of 30 Ton of granite
Sharp sand 10 36000 360000 10 Trips of 20 Ton of sharp sand
Laterite 1 21000 21000 Laterite to fill the road
Filling sand 38 21000 798000 38 trips of 20 Ton Laterite
Nails 4 4500 18000 2 bundles of 2" and 3" UK nail types
Binding wire 3 5000 15000 3 bundles of binding wires
Nylon 8 2000 16000 8 bundles Polythene construction sheets
Pegs 3 1000 3000 3 bundles of pegs
1 by 12 white wood 500 630 315000 500 pcs of 1 by 12 white wood
Plumbing materials N/A 70000 70000 Materials from foundation to decking
Extra 1 by 12 white wood 40 700 28000
2 by 3 white wood 470 200 94000 470 pcs of white wood
16mm diameter bar 3 109000 327000 3 Ton (56 length = 1 Ton)
12mm diameter bar 1 109000 109000 1 Ton (93 length = 1 Ton)
10mm diameter bar 1 114000 114000 1 Ton (132 length = 1 Ton)
BRC (Mesh) 11 10000 110000 11 rolls of BRC Mesh 3.2
Surface pumping machine 1 20000 20000
Water tank 2 30000 60000 1500 litre water tank (2 pieces)
Misc 1 95000 95000 Wood transport (60K), loading and offloading of wood (20K), compensation to farm owner (5K), transportation (10K)
Total for sub-structure materials N4043000

SUB-STRUCTURE (Labour)
Description Unit Unit Cost (N) Total Cost (N) Note
Bricklayer N/A 50000 50000
Iron bender N/A 90000 90000
Carpenter N/A 110000 110000
Shed construction N/A 20000 20000
Plumber N/A 50000 50000 Initial labour for plumber
Casting N/A 260000 260000 Raft foundation and DPC casting
Sand Filling Labour 38 3000 114000 N3000 per truck of filling sand (38 trucks)
Compaction and treating of filling sand 45000 45000
Site clearing N/A 10000 10000
Supervision N/A 400000 400000
Total for sub-structure labour N1149000
Total for sub-structure (labour and materials) N5,192,000

Then we casted the DPC. And we are done wih this phase.

And preparation for DPC started in earnest.
You can see polyethylene construction sheets been laid after which blinding was done then 3.2 BRC mesh was laid.

We then started sand filling the voids in the foundation

Then we stripped off the form work and the foundation came out nice.
You can see the foundation being watered after the form work was stripped off.
We can also see some plumbing work already started.

Then casting of the raft foundation begins

The access road was bad even after pouring 20ton of laterite on it. The truck that was bringing sharp sand for block moulding sank
Most times I had to pay labourers to relocate sand/granite and other materials that could not get to site due to bad road.
That was really frustrating!

More pictures of iron work for the raft foundation

Raft foundation form work and reinforcement then started in earnest. Both were going hand in hand.

Then followed by blinding......

Setting out then follows:

The chronology of this building project is as depicted in these pictures.
I will post cost of each milestone broken down into material and labour.

In the beginning there was a farmland used to grow vegetables

Chekitaut: Oga Fash, thank you am honored, This project is wonderful with Eng. Dele(Small body but Mighty Engine) oversee all with aggressive supervision, Eng. Dele weldone, i want to commend your effort on the process of tackling the access road challenges. You really show case a great skills.
Good and glad to be part of this...

Chekitaut thanks for your kind words.

[quote author=mufutau55]Welcome Sir.

Hajji M.

Thanks bro

Folks permit me to introduce to you the site Engineer for my project, Engr Dele. His company's name is Elfadconsult.
He will be doing most of the postings and explaining here since he did the work.
Thanks

More pictures

Current look of the house

Guys I want to share whatever I have so far with my project in Iyana Oba, to help and encourage folks who are about starting similar project.
This may not be perfect in terms of costing and reporting but this is the best I could come up with.
Building details:
The two duplexes at the front are the biggest (four bedrooms each), two living rooms one on the ground floor and one on the first floor
The two duplexes at the back have (three bedroom each), two living rooms also on the ground floor and one on the first floor.
In a nut shell, this building contains 14 bedrooms , 8 living rooms
All the bedrooms are en-suite

The bill of quantity says this project will cost N53,000,000 to complete.
However my site engineer and I agreed on a total of N32,000,000 for the project cost and this is what we are working with.

Current project status:
We are at the roofing stage which marks the completion of the building carcass and to date we have spent a total of N15,000,000.

I will provide the details of the spending of th N15M (wait a minute, did all that came from my pocket/ )

Well, well, I want to thank some people who have provided me professional advice on this project, peeps like Chekitaut, barabus, Spyder and Muyenski. I appreciate all of una.

Welcome all to this thread. Please feel free to comment and ask questions.
I will be bringing my site engineer also on this thread to comment and answer some questions that I don't have answers to.
Thanks.

Pls can you send me your price list of your security doors both classic types and metal (4ft and 3ft).
Also send me price lists of internal doors PVC, solid core and wooden doors of different sizes.

I urgently need block makers that can make vibrated blocks. The person must be willing to bring his equipment to my building site. I will supply all materials and we only need to negotiate on labour cost. I presently need about 14000 blocks for my building. I will need more to make fence as the project progresses. The rate for labour cost will be based on each bag of cement AND NOT per block.

Also I need efficient and trust worthy workers that do not charge throat cutting fees. I need (good mason/bricklayer, carpenter, iron bender and caster). The building project is 4-duplexes (each with 4 bedrooms). The project is starting second week in November so I need people urgently. Forward your names and mobile number to me.

@ Chekitaut, please inform the borehole guy that he should be ready for second week in November.