₦airaland Forum

mufutau55:
I am on your side brother... The guy is good and employed professional people to work for him.

Hajji M.

skimanski:
I have viewed all videos and carefully observed what they were doing. Now I must confess I appreciate all that was done and I also have learnt some things like the grouting process on the first video which involves the application of more than just Grout cement and even silicon to your grout space, though more expensive than the normal grouting process, but worth it. Which brings me to your request for my view/take on the process of the laying of tiles.

Now note that in Nigeria, the first thing that comes to mind when we want to do any thing in life is how cheapest can we archive it, and not how best, so trust me when I say our method is the cheapest than the one you have viewed on the videos. In the videos the floors have already been prepared smoothly for the tiles to just me applied, as against us dressing the floors with sharp sand and cement before application. If we were to dress our floor the way it looked in the videos, we would require more cement, more sand and more labour than normal. Also in the first video, you were required to use a number of plywood layers before the tiles, that on its own is a very expensive method. Also note that the cement been used is Tile Gum and not our normal cement(Dangote, Elephant e.t.c). Only tile gum can be used to lay tiles on smooth surfaces as cement will not hold, but Tile gum is also more expensive than normal cement. We only use it over here in laying of heavy weight stones like Marbles, Granite and very heavy Tiles. the advantage of their method is that it gives them a high level of precision as regards the finish. But when is comes to "Skimanski" and his team of workers, Precision is inevitable regardless of the method.

I hope I have answered your questions. Also do feel free to further any more questions.

koman:
I've watched all the videos and I dont see much difference between how its done here and what is obtainable out there.

To have a perfect/neat installation, you need an even/levelled and smooth floor.
Their floor looks levelled and smooth so all they need is to apply a light mortar that acts as an adhesive between the floor and tiles.

Here in Nigeria, we don't usually have an even and smooth floor so we have to level it with a mixture of sand & cement before we can have a perfect/neat installation.

It might seem that we waste more materials but I reality, we don't.

The only area our tilling technology can be accused of being crude is that we dont usually use the spacers and levellers.

mufutau55:
Aha! Talking of burglary proof.. they just finished my MQ verandah burglary for the two flats.. it contains the 2 big front and 2 small sides.
Look below, you go see say I don copy you tired..oh! It's good to learn from the Properties Forum oh!

Hajji M.

rotecch77:
@fastshiping the tiles cost N2500 per meter

rotecch77:
On my way to the site today see how niger dey hussle, pics below..... more pics of the job we are correcting on the site .

.. more pics of the un professional job the former handler did

FastShipping:
Back to business............

FastShipping:
Shipping made easy..........

meccuno:
APC is Seriously working to kill the common man......caught between the devil and the deep blue sea......wonder which is the lesser evil....Nigerian Politicians are useless...

omenka:
Please someone on ground should furnish us with live pictures before that apprentice flood the whole place with images from his concave abacus tv.

calculusx:

You still have the grace of buying till end of next month. End of next month i mean means your vehicle ought to be in port latest 20th of November 2014. As for me, buying continues No matter the price of pms in gas station, we won't run our cars with urine

chrismmm:
Only a bastard yoruba person wil vote him , kill him!

sheffyUTD:


This one strong o oga!

theassassin:
otu nne i

biafranqueen:
No but this is all that you showed in my state has been cleaned up.
APC has shown us that the leaders are not for the average citizen. Fashola has done nothing, and not once has any of you put a thread out showing either he or his Godfather Thiefbu's achievement, simply because you can't.