₦airaland Forum

jafextra: Hello house, I intend to do lintel of my 3 bedroom apartment @Ifo Ogun State please can someone assist me on how much I should budget for. The materials and the cost of labour. Thanks for your assistance as I don't know much about building.

spyder880: At a point the sizes of trucks on display and their carriage capacity became such a confusing issue to agree on between me and the truck owners/suppliers, so I changed style.

I pointed at a large truck (double axle) and wanted all my deliveries to be handled by the truck, priced around with different suppliers and later agreed on the least price obtainable for supplying me with the truck. The condition was that it must be full and hunched, and must be inspected by me before tipping. This was how we arrived at that price.

segcy.moor:
....Se na Brabus tell u dat or u had from Mimiko?

kcool_k4: I want to say trucks matter. I stand to be corrected though. From experience, I know all these trucks have load ratings when and where it was manufactured. It's called GVWR. There are some that have 60,000 pounds GVWR while some have 80,000lbs GVWR and so on. You also have to know the tare load and pay load which is the maximum load it can carry. These two weights are written most of the time on the truck or you can pull it up with VIN. These, to a large extent, affect the load the trucks can carry even if they look just alike and are of the same model. These GVWR differs significantly and are greatly enforced on U.S roads. You are not allowed to go over the limit. I'll say you are partly right because under normal circumstance, the scale is supposed to tell us everything I've mentioned earlier in the absence of that info I wrote, but you and I know what some dishonest people do around the scales in Nigeria quarries. May God help us in all ways in Nigeria. Almost everywhere you turn to,someone is ready to rip you off, and we turn around and blame Jona or Fash!.

brabus: I've only purchased 3 loads so far and I still have 1 full load left on ground. Meanwhile, I've done the following

1. Blinding of the main building
2. Casting of the column base and starter columns (main building)
3. Casting of the ground floor slab (main building)
4. Casting of the lintels and columns (main building)
5. Blinding and Casting of the soak away floor and columns
6. Sand filling of the driveway

spyder880: They even have a "granite village" somewhere around

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helpee: @mufutau. Tnks for d encouragement. Nigerians are so dubious. The ironbender called me that they needed 40 more length of 12mm and 15 more length of 16mm. I made the order. They called me that they were offloading the rod on site and I told them I was attending to a patient that I couldn't come. After seeing d patient I just changed my mind and went. Behold, the ironbender had organised with the people that brought d iron rods and they loaded back 20pieces of 12mm and 5pieces of 16mm and were about going when I caught. They wanted to steal forty thousand worth of iron rod at a go. I will soon change all hands on site.

brabus: You're interpreting Hajji wrongly. I guess he's referring to the rough road we have to pass before making it BIG in life. Especially the stormy water we have to swim in this project before getting to the finish line. Isale Oro l'egbin indeed. Nobody saw me when we are keeping vigil in the thick wood to ensure that the DPC was completed.

Do you get it now?

mufutau55: I was refering to Brabus... if my Yoruba is still good.. It means when Brabus is laboring, going thru all he went thru before this house started, trying to make some money and working until about 2am nobody sees him now, but when the money started rolling in, people will notice it then. Are we cleared?
That was not refering to the owner of the house.. Go and look at the thread/message again sir. Thank you.

Note: Please read Brabus message above this one for you to understand more.. I just added mine to it too.
When you read the end.. it says "Ki Oluwa pin wa lere". That means may God reward us well..

Hajji Mufutau

mufutau55: But then, "Isale oro legbin, ki Oluwa pin wa lere".

Hajji Mufutau

brabus: Fence Design - What do you think?

I'm commissioned to come up with a nice fence design that would suit this project, but honestly I'm unsure of what design it should be? Dwarf, High, Solid or See-through? The idea is to have a great looking fence that stops people in their tracks asking my client "Where did you get this design from?", and so that he can proudly hand them my card and say "It was designed and built by NextHome Builders"

I'd love to hear your thoughts. Here are some of my favourite at the moment.

segcy.moor:
I am only interested in the Client's mistake u pointed out. I ve a similar experience of recent. The Client in question got quote lesser than mine but i advise him to procure the materials and get security on site to monitor the flow of the work ............i think Brabus is already Building bridge in Ondo to access the site.

Od31: That is the reality in PH now my friend. I faced the same thing too. The truth is that even if you pay, you will still not get the approval on time. The State approval takes time. If you do not get the approval and you start any work the task force people will still come to disturb your and ask for your approval and when u fail to produce it, they will write on ur wall or fence "stop work" they will want to take money from you that you have contravene the law by starting the building without state approval. It is really a very terrible thing going on in PH now. the common man is suffering. The best bet is the get to know the task force around that area first, before you start anything that way you can get along and take your time to get the state approval. It takes time. I paid since last year september/october, and by Jan when i returned to nigeria, i attempted to start foundation, then i meet this taskforce people,even with the evidence i showed them, that I have paid for the state approval, the insist to see the approval. I even called the guy rom the state office that is handling it but that could not resolve the issue. I had to give another moni. So it is a mess. My Advice, get to the state taskforce in charge of the area you are building and have an understanding, so you can start otherwise, if you have to wait for the state approval, it may not come out in the next 1 year. even when you have someone in the state office (urban development office) doing it for you. mine is still not out till now.

spyder880: This house is big!

orgasticdance: How exactly is he breaking new ground? By participating in photo-ops with celebrities who invariably have had more influence in the world than he can dream of? He was just another greedy resourceful banker, and a mighty big airhead only interested in the bottom line and not building a worldclass company such as GTB..next abeg

Chekitaut: On point but "agreement is agreement" in paper and in words. if a supplier cant deliver at the agree price he shld just leave the supply but never under the sun he want to cheat.