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Stormtrooper11:
An Igbo Nigerian wedding expenses list, was posted online on Twitter. It was trailed with different comments from different people. While some saw it as an appropriate list, others saw it as unnecessarily expensive.

What are your opinions Nairalanders?

1st Pic: The actual marriage, Bride price list
2nd & 3rd Pics: File photos for illustrations

Seun, I would really like to know the mod who pushed this to the front page and for what reason.

A very close look at the image shows the contents are clearly intended to malign the Igbo, give people reason to cast aspersions on our culture and traditions!!!

Otherwise, how or where on earth would you have a "marriage list" from an Igbo family without KOLA-NUT (ọji Igbo)
They fabricator even went as far as including "pigs", just legodu ��

In this era where people create all sorts of things to to generate social media frenzy and drive blog traffic, I feel your mods should be better educated or try to have clear insights so that they don't end up playing into people's hands.

This topic needs to be removed in its entirety, thank you.

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I've noticed that size is always the issue with some of these things.
My suggestion is, if the scanned items you want to upload can be opened on your android device, open it, screenshot it and edit/crop/save the ss and try again.

Please, do not allow this Lagos-badagry express way media to fool you.
Nnamdi Kanu was not just "arrested and extradited"..it was an "Extraordinary Rendition"..an act considered very illegal in international relations and diplomacy.

In the coming days and months, this campaign to water down what went down in Kenya would continue in ernest.

The continued attempt and efforts to subdue dissent, Muggle free speech and criminalise peaceful protests being embarked upon by this administration to force everyone in line while the country grapples with unemployment, food inflation, bloodletting and acute power failure will set the PMB administration as the worst to come out of Nigeria.

Brace up guys, the future wey dey pregnant before come be like PMB and his goons don force am to abort.

I'd really like to know who terminated this contract and reawarded same because despite the many "SANs" in this PMB administration, they keep on committing so many legal missteps that one is bound to wonder whether their own Na "Senior Advocates of Nonsense"

Texas OCL�.

Texas "Occultic Company Limited"

Please bros op, keep your head at home while going, e for be registered headhunters

Tragedy!!

nannymcphee:
Please I find the sitting of the 1bedroom apartment too big, I intend to run a new wall as depicted by the red line to expand the sitting room of the 2bedroom.

This extension is 600mm My question is, is this safe as per long term basis to run this new wall on the German Floor(3inches thick)?

My foundation was done based on the drawing. Pls note, this is a bungalow with no parapet, just flat roof

Thanks

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EgunMogaji2
n3xt
Adegunle4
yosmen
Josnac
Heymus
Beframia

Unless the laterite filling were machine-compacted to achieve very minimal voids, I wouldn't advice this since the bedding soil is not an undisturbed sample.

Go ahead with what you have and made foundation for.

Image laundry for a man whose "hands are always tied"

I'm leaving this country for una.

nannymcphee:
Against the counsel of N3xt & the house I didnt do pillars(sad face)

My foundation concrete was 3" thick

Foundation depth 1ft 6"(hard soil)

Mortar mixture used 1bag of cement, 12heapan of sharp sand ( please is this good enough?)

For the concrete. 1bag of cement, 8 headpan of sharp sand and 7headpan of granite( is this Ok too?)

4 coaches has been achieved and the surrounding roads are lower than the estate. Next stage is filling and German Floor

I have insisted on the german floor, I am being pressed to continue building and do that later

The area is not water logged, please what advantage does the German floor have and why should I do it?

EgunMogaji2
n3xt
Adegunle4
yosmen
Josnac
Heymus

Glad to hear your project is up and running.
Your mortar and concrete mixtures are very okay for your project.

Please, if you've already made a budget for the oversite concrete (German floor)..get it done before continuing with the blockwork, not later, as you have a greater chance of blocking out rodents, ants and other crawling stuffs when the concrete is monolithically placed over the floor area.

Additionally, seeing that your foundation is already done, please do ensure that your structure sits at a considerable height above the general ground level (3-courses of blockwork should be your minimum), especially if the road/street has not been tarred/built before now...trust me, it will save you loads of agony in the future.

Best wishes.

ec0malchemist:
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Please, check under its right wing..there's a letter there from the village people's committee chairlady., Remember you missed the last meeting.

Cheers

michlins:
Good evening everyone, I don't know where Nigeria dey go now. There's at least 30% on the price of every material I work with.

Someone should help me confirm if it's same from their end

Baba, you still dey find confirmation??
Well, the "confirmation" I can give you is that if you don't buy that material today, by tomorrow the price will increase further.

nannymcphee:
Happy new year to the house!!

I decided to suspend my 3bedroom(I earlier brought the plan here for criticisms) and start with the 2bedroom bungalow/1bedroom BQ, attached is the floor plan and the type of roof I plan to do.

The ground is a solid one and since I dont intend to do a high pitched roof or parapet, do I need to introduce pillars?

Any criticism of the floor plan

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Josnac

Happy new year to you too.
Very happy to learn that you aren't suspending the project entirely, however, if you're very certain the ground is solid, there may be no need for pillars.. though I would advise that extremely long walls should be reinforced.

Also, endeavour to link the entire structure at the lintel level...(normally referred to as "chaining".

Best wishes.
N/B:
Taking a very close look at the draft plan, can I suggest that ventilation be improved?
Or is it late for your architect to modify??

Also, it is ideal to point out that this plan is a "double flat" configuration and not necessarily a "3-bedroom flat with BQ". From what I know, BQs are always set back from the main building.

On the one bedroom side, the positions of the kitchen and the bedroom can be swapped to give room for one adjacent window for the bedroom. Same can be done for the other flat, with the lounge and dining occupying the length of space taken up by the master bedroom and the second room.

Sunshyne200:
Hello, if you are in Aba, someone is looking for a construction engineer that can deliver.

Respond urgently

Yes I am, my contacts is in my profile.

ArcToyin:
You did a good job. I dont just know i love doing a renovation and reconversion. I see it as more brain tasking than doing a new job.

Thanks.
Yea, it's very challenging and also fulfilling at the same time.

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Sunshyne200:
Hahahaha. It's all good, Anyday.

I came in too for a project, I ain't from here.
Would leave few months

All good..hope you can throw one our way in due time?
Best regards.

Maobichek:
The way they shouted Ngwa man will build Aba here and there was something else. I felt bad that Ngwa road linking Obioha, Ohanku, Asa road, etc still remains an eye soar, God help us Oh cos any attempt to deliver Abia State ends up in more suffering.
The cash flow in Aba is something else, over 5 big markets in Aba, over 30k keke paying 270 on daily basis as at 2015 (now they may be paying up to 500 on daily basis) buses are paying on daily basis also, road-side at Ngwa road market 300 on daily basis with over 5000 ppl paying. The last place prepared meter will be shared is Aba cos estimated bill is a lucrative business as hundreds of millions are derived from estimated bill. There should be state of emergency if it will help salvage Abia State.

His people are busy playing the ostrich, no one wants to talk. They will appreciate the full extent of this man's misadventure at the government house once his tenure is completed.

Sunshyne200:
Wow. Where in Aba are you. I am in Aba too, maybe we could hook up and have a drink one day

Out of Aba at the moment on a project.. though aburo m onye green bottles

Confused and overgrown cow!
It's so painful to us as Abians that we have governors who have failed successively, but that this one keep rubbing it in our faces is a reminder that you should never hand power over to a man without vision.

The okezie ikpeazu administration is more interested in copying what other governors are doing and at other times they act "Siddon dey look".

For an idea of what I'm saying, look at the flyover project, he saw Ebonyi State doing it, he followed..and more than 3-years down the line, he's still stuck there.

Concrete roads, the same thing. Even before commissioning the few he has done, ordinary Keke napep tires are wearing off the surfaces!

Ngwa road in Aba is a disaster, those who do business there are exposed to different health issues on a daily basis.

Recently, I've been seeing him on billboards with large letters, smiling beside the inscription "Kinetic Abia" and I weep..Ben Ayade has rubbed useless vocabulary on this one.

The greatest losers of this man's failure are the Ngwa people, he had the golden opportunity to reform, revive and revamp Aba, but he has failed!

Heymus:
well, I love the justice he has done to the flows within the sitting room, dining and kitchen.

Your Architect can be creative more than this cos I'm still having issues with that lobby, just too much. I consider it as waste of space, that lobby itself has taken much percentage from the building.

That lobby it's a no no no for me.

This is one of the reasons I asked if he is in tune with the dimensions. Drawings look small on paper because they are scaled..but could be overwhelming for the owner when the project kicks off if he doesn't get to understand the full extent/sizes of the individual components/partitions in there.

nannymcphee:
Good day all, the architect has responded based on the brief I sent

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Josnac
Pls any inputs?

Good day,
Well, like I said earlier, sketches and actual dimensioned drawings are two different things.
He has tried, at least in replicating your idea but his dimensioning is still off. All these "3,791, 2079, 4,743..." Should be streamlined into the nearest round figures.. example for the 3 numbers above can be "3,800, 2100, 4,750" or "3,750, 2050, 4,750".

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Also, may I suggest you scale down the standalone toilet and bath down a bit? 1,350x2,100 is very okay.

Please I hope you're in tune with the sizes/dimensions of these rooms and other components of the Building
Make e no be say you go shout say the thing too large when you kick off the project.

May I suggest you trim down your bedrooms to 3,600x3,600??...e get why.

Nonsense and ingredients!!!

Shebi one police consultant wey miss road was saying no unit has been set up to replace SARS??

https://www.nairaland.com/6188673/endsars-no-unit-been-created

Na their house helps dem wan begin train from tomorrow??

nannymcphee:
Thanks to everyone who contributed, I am grateful.

I think i will go with this plan. The attached pic is what i intend to send to the architect. Pls did I miss anything?

I will go with enclosed stairwell as he previously did and request that the kitchen exit be a spiral staircase. Suggestions are welcome please

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Josnac

Well, the idea is quite okay, I trust he won't have any more difficulties getting this into a full workable drawing.. sketches and actual drawings are two different things, if you understand.

You can get in touch when it's time to build, let's give you that professional touch.
Best regards!!

Why do these people actually take Nigerians to be fools??
Someone came for a peaceful protest, your men rile them up..and when the atmosphere becomes tensed they shoot and kill/wound unarmed citizens who are demanding accountability and respect to their right to life.

Abeg, I need someone here to go and tell this man he's not making any sense..I go pay your t-fare.

joycluv:
That apart, can 1x5 planks be used for facial boards?

That's small..I would recommend 1x9.
See attached image.

Alternatively, you can convert the roof of the front porch to "Gabe-roof" if you are trying to avoid having the beam covered.