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please comment on my thread here,i would really appreciate it.www.nairaland.com/3682713/ten-ways-reduce-cost-while

In this trying economic times, those with the need and desire to own their own homes might have to revert to low cost home building techniques, a low cost home does not necessary mean a low quality home, rather it means a home that is structurally and functionally sound but may lack the fancy bells and whistles needed to compete in the” I pass my neighbors” category. The following ten ideas if dutifully followed would enable the average Nigerian teacher parents own a decent two or three bedroom home.

(1) Reduce the area of the home: there’s always the tendency to overbuild especially when building a home for the first time with the emotional attachment involved, but to keep costs down, there’s need for a clear headed analyses in order for the family to get the home they need and can afford rather than burdening themselves with the home they desire and can’t afford, thus they need to ask themselves basic questions like do we really need a third/guest bedroom, the dining room(experience world over shows that people hardly uses their dining room),ante room, visitors toilet, prayer room, exercise room, home office, en suite toilets etc? It’s ironic that the average size of Nigerian homes have been increasing due to these newly fangled additions while the average size of Nigerian families is falling due to lower birth rates. The simple truth is that a family of four with children of same sex can easily live comfortable in a two bedroom flat consisting of two bathrooms and a kitchen and measuring roughly 30’x30’.

(2) Well designed multi use spaces: a well designed bedroom with a good furniture plan can be a bedroom, study room and home office all rolled together into one, a dining room/area can also serve as a study room, home office and game room if well planned. What makes a home functional is the thought exercised in its design rather than its square footage or cost of construction.


(3)Avoid swampy soils: nothing pushes up the cost of construction more than building on swampy/waterlogged soils that need expensive foundations like raft and bored piles foundations.try as much as possible to buy land with dry and strong soils .

(4)Avoid site preparation costs: avoid lands that would need filling, grading and rock blasting. Such site preparation costs would push up the total costs of your new home.

(5)Simple roof design: aim for simple roofing styles with low pitch and less corners. The cheapest home to roof is a rectangular shaped structure without gables. High roofs look more impressive but cost a fortune. Aim for something simple.

(6) Less windows and glass: Glass looks good but it’s costly. Carefully place your windows to eliminate waste.aim for standard sized windows and eliminate any fancy glass.

(7)Fewer bathrooms: one of the latest fads of modern building designs is the advent of en suite bathrooms which means that each bedroom comes with its own bathroom. The most costly rooms to build in your home is the bathroom so reducing their numbers to the absolutely necessary minimum is a vital step to reducing the total cost of constructing a new home.

( Incorporate fewer corners into the design: the easiest house to build is a rectangular home with a rectangular roof. Incorporating corners, curved walls and slanting walls while been visually more pleasing would dramatically push up cost. Avoid these like the plagues if you’re intent on lowering costs.

(9) Go for a minimalist finishing and ornamentation: fancy roofing sheets, concrete fascia (so called parapet), window hoods, arches, tiled walls, decorated pillars, moldings, elaborate pop designs etc are all nice but not necessary features that would quickly push up the cost of constructing a new home.

(10) Hire professionals: it’s often a false economics to design and build your own home because there are always places where you commit costly mistakes that would cost even more to remedy. Likewise, the bricklayer is not an architect neither is he an engineer. Use the right professionals for the job to avoid costly mistakes.
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nwabobo:
Thought that is not a feeding bottle, it's a drink called Ensure. It's a high calorie drink prescribed for people at risk of or suffering from malnutrition. It's also prescribed for people who are unable to eat properly as a supplement.

hei,so he's now that serious? and lai Mohammed was telling us that bubu is not sick.

Gr8tasign:
A group of prominent Igbo professionals led by a former Central Bank of Nigeria governor, Charles Soludo today met up with Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), in prison and would later converge for a press conference at Chelsea hotel in Abuja by 3pm today, to relay the feedback of their visit.

Also part of the group is Pat Utomi, a Nigerian professor of political economy and management expert.

Kanu was arrested in October 2015 and subsequently detained by the Buhari led Federal government for treason. He was arraigned before Justice Adeniyi Ademola at a Federal High Court in Abuja. The judge granted him bail which the federal government refused to implement. The IPOB leader has since been held in a prison in Abuja despite several court ruling in favor of his release from detention.

Many prominent Nigerians and clergies have also spoken up for his release.



Saharareporters.com

please open a new threa with this https://www.naij.com/1091056-why-visited-nnamdi-kanu-soludo.html

why is this not yet on the front-page ?

kuuljay:
I talk am!!! Immediately they heard oyil has been discovered in Benue ,they extended their nets to idoma/igede

the former eastern region/Biafra includes parts of modern day benue state.

sarrki:
If he behaves well he will be out by 2035

your lord and saviour buhari was in prison for three and half years, by the time he came back, his marriage has already collapsed.

lalasticlala,mynd44,seun. God bless Biafra.

saharareporters.com/2017/02/28/former-cbn-governor-soludo-utomi-igbo-professionals-meet-ipob-leader-nnamdi-kanu-prison

Luukasz:
You expel four thousand in a small school like UNIOSUN, then how many students left. No student will fall for such an empty threat.

mad men are always in power in Nigeria.

does anybody else notice that this is a sponsored publication from an unknown website against the students that protested against the high handedness of the school management. those guys in power should know that the economy is really bad now.

Rilwayne001:
Buhari government is evil. Quote me anywhere

even his wife confesses to that.

always disobeying court orders. please all i ask for is Biafra.

anambra beware of apc.

who is releasing these pictures because they're not coming out from official channels.

MadCow1:
See wetin University Student write.

And the persin sef fit even dey English Language department.


Load have mercy on the future of this nation.

Nigeria have no positive future, there's no reason to believe so.I'm a former staff of the Niger state polytechnic and i can boldly tell you that the student that wrote this would likely get a federal job within one year of graduation because he belongs to the right tribe and religion.

lalasticlala,mynd44,seun

this man have started following the same line that made ngige to lose the Last governorship election. he is speaking against the popular opinion of the voters and expect to win their votes. he's definitely confused.

LoveDecay:
The east is fool of idiots.

Rip to English.

ephi123:
I didn't even know about that. Very insincere government, later they will have the guts to blame the MOCs.

in this regime, everything must be politiced,from selection of ministers to ogoni clean up to foreign appointments, the real issues like how to increase productivity which would in turn lead to favourable balance of payments are never addressed. nobody is talking about our collapsed education while foreigners are coming in to take our jobs because our engineering graduates can't differentiate between a spanner and a screw driver. the minister for education studied Arabic studies while the minister for labour and productivity is a medical doctor.square pegs in round holes that can't generate any policy.

ephi123:
And I can't even point at exactly what she achieved in her Minister role, besides "kicking off" a supposed Ogoni cleanup which no one has heard any update about ever since.

I couldn't care less wherever she is headed to tbh. She's not the first and won't be the last either.

shell pulled out of the ogoni clean up just two days after buhari launched it citing lack of sincerity by the government. it was dead on arrival.

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this woman is not the first Nigerian to get an international job, we're tired of all this her photo shoots.

please we're tired pf tonto dike's stories.nairaland is a discussion forum not a gossip blog.

lalasticlala,mynd44,seun

basilo102:
Kano DSS director who brutalized Kanu died mysteriously, Buhari himself is in coma. Binta Nyako is on the run. Nemesis

the rivers state police commissioner who killed ipob members is also dead.

lalasticlala,mynd44,seun. can we move this ministry to the permanent site?

Noneroone:
Lalasticlala this is very important

God bless Biafra.

Adeyeancah:
Me like it....less make up, you look beautiful....check out mine which I uploaded today

you look like a drunk, no offense.

good evening to the house.

AshawoGirl:
That is how Nigeria boys are. 90% of them have small preek

miss entrepreneur, leave the jobless boys and upgrade to real men.