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Aventures:
Glory be to God. Foundation finally delivered.

So far so good. How much have you spent to this stage? If permissible pls share with the house.

mufutau55:
On my side... there is no need for the 1976 story... because I was 80% "Ete Bassey"... except I was not sick or dead; this was long time ago.
I had no opportunity to come home and monitor my project because I was on a student visa, and once you leave, you are not coming back.
So my family are the next option... we are talking about mid 70s, there was no communication except letter (postal) delivery was still good.
Sending money then you have to send it thru people or those coming to USA for trading.. that was during the time called "Arrangee", if you are caught with more than "Basic Travel Allowance", you will end up in Bar Beach for firing-squad. Many old-timers will remember this time.
Long story short all photos of housing project sent to me was fake.. no house no hard earned money. I even thought of importing gun to Naija then concealed in an auto tyres so I can come and shoot those who duped, but I later changed my mind... but I surely learnt my lesson in a big way.

Your family are your worst enemy sometimes when it comes to finances or building projects, especially if you are overseas...

Hajji M.

My friend similar story was 4 years ago, this involve their birth mother. My friend junior brother took his money that suppose to be used to build his house, marry young lady with it. There mother was aware of all this Oooo. He even sent him bags of wedding gift. His brother keep sending him pictures of his neighbor building as he seind money. All this burst when he try to surprise me About his project in Naija, when I told him I was traveling to Naija. He give me the address, when I get the supposed about to finish building is already be occupied. To cut the story short, it was an custom officer home. His house is about 5 blocks away with just the foundation just the way he left it before he came to US 7 years early.
That was the money that he suppose to used to regularize him self here. He still here, no house in Naija no paper. How do one deal with that?

Aventures:
Dear all,

We are set for closing this phase of work i:e foundation by Wednesday with the Ground floor slab casting.

Reinforcement to ground floor slab to completed tomorrow.

Materials are also on ground. Granite and stone dust as coarse and fine aggregates and cement as the binding agent. I want to encourage all of our builder's in this forum for further embracement of this aggregates by an experiment I undertook.

I prepared a concrete with the mixture of 1:1:2 that is 0ne head pan of granite to one head and of quarry dust, and 2 head pan of granites. This mixture should give Concrete with Grade 30 strength at 28 days. I also prepared second set the same way but this time I used sharp sand instead of quarry dust with the expectation of same strength after 28 days. This concrete were casted in cubes and were taken to Building Technology of Yaba Tech for testing. The test is to be undertaken in 3 stages: 7 days, 14 days and 28 days.

Grade 30 concrete is the grade commonly use for bridges, jetty, airplane runways and some heavyduty structures.

I was surprised to have the cement + quarry dust + granite giving 25N/mm2 (expected 30N/mm2 @ 28 days) while cement + sand+ granite gives 21N/mm2 (aslo expected 30N/mm2 after 28 days.

@Aventures if I may ask, what did you intend to achieve with this experiment. Here in the west, this is the standard procedure for testing any concrete with a fact sheet. Before it used for any job. For record purpose it must meet the standard strengths of what it's being used for. There is no shortcuts about it, its the law. Otherwise you will face the rough side of the law.

spyder880:
The going gets tough as we hit a stone while drilling for water. They load sand bags on the drill for added weight and keep turning, with another drill bit of course.......

Real hard manual drilling indeed, there is a better way of doing this. Pls tell those guys that are doing the drilling; to drill hard soil or rock surface. They need pressure not weight. What they need is to get a pumping machine that can at least push pressure of 300psi or more, 1 hose that will soak water from one end of the pumping machine and the other side will push pressure out to the other end; connect the hole pipe in the middle of the blade that drills. This way the pressure is the one blasting the soil surface and the little pressure applied from the operator to achieve the desire drilling.

wunmiplus:
@LASYEM, I am a commission agent and am from Agura in Ikorodu. I know that almost all the land around that area, if not all, is in Agric zone but am also aware that government have released a lot of the land years back. My question now is, what document/paper do people who have land in the area needs to obtain ? Is it C of O, Consent or Ratification ? What is the procedure ? Can you help a client to get the papers ?
Please feel free to email me at wunmiplus@yahoo.com or call 07055046440.
Thanks.

Note: If there is anybody looking to buy land in Agura or any other part of Ikorodu, the person can equally contact me via wunmiplus@yahoo.com or call 07055046440.

place of your advertisement of locations, prices and documentation on each of the lands that you are trying to market. Don't assume people know most of the locations you have mentioned, by giving good details we make buyers; make better decisions. Don't be surprised if someone contacts you from China or Russia.

onaf:
I have a 6 plots of land to give out to interested buyer.The land is located in Igbe Palace area in Ijede LCDA IKORODU LAGOS.

ASKING PRICE IS =N=650K PER PLOT.Land is selling at 1.2m in the location now.Grab your own plot now.You can choose to buy all 6 plot.



Call David 08023306703 for inspection

What documents do you have on land?

FastShipping:
SCAM.

You guys again>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>? Sorry man is for those foolish SCAMERS.

smiley001:
To be candid, I don't know wot ppl see in lagos

lagos used to be one of the best city those days, with the traffic now it's chaos. The traffic cost me almost full tank a day to move around when I visit. Traffic is better in Abuja.

KolaShangOne:
I lost my progress pictures with my stolen phones but I will try to post the ones on my digital camera once I can compress the size

Sorry to hear that.

EgunMogaji:
I was primed to do the borehole but then omo onile wahala started so I shifted funds to the fence.

It's back on my radar though. It was saddening yesterday, we're truly still behind as a nation.

Thank God you're there doing it yourself, that is the practical experience you have to deal with.

Aventures:
=N= 145 Per peice of 9 inches sandcrete block. 35 pcs per bag of cement with the use of stone dust and sharp sand.

do they provide materials inclusive in that price.

Aventures:
more pics

@Aventures how much these guys charge per one, to mold these blocks on site by owner specification.

NL1960:
Seems you have removed the link. I initially saw but could not play it.

I have seek Hajji help to see if he can post it, I was unable to post the video, its wasn't playing.

quote]Mr Adeniyi you know better now, what are the documentation on this land. please give full detail on that location and others around that location.

KolaShangOne:
How would you rate us on a scale of 1-100

you have not show us most of the process before its get to this finish stage.

NL1960:
Do not know all these but i trust the guy to do a good job with the best materials. He did my water tank stand and i was very impressed. That of 160k is also appealing to me. Will have to see how far i can beat down the price.

I doubt it was my house that you saw in a Naija movie but i could be wrong as people can just firm house in this country without permission. You can post the link.

I hope is not, this is the house I saw.

smiley001:
Sketch doesn't rilly describe it... A 3D would be better so as to see d real picture of wot d final or end product would be.

The guys will be fabricating it, this are the simple questions you should ask them. when you ask those questions, don't be surprised the prices may change.

NL1960:
I was sent the following sketch of gate samples and price for consideration. Comments and the one i should choose are welcome. Price is a factor.

What are this fancy gate made off.
what are the thickness or gages of those square pipes, thickness or gages of the flat sheet matal plate. If those pipes are at list 1/4 thick, with the flat sheet matal at 3/8 thick. It will be strong enough to stand the teste of the day. In my opinion, I like that of 160k. Bros I believe I saw your house in one of Naija movie. I may wrong. if you don't mind me posting the short link.

HsLBroker:
The simplest way to calculate the numbers of blocks you need for your fence project, assuming you are fencing a land measuring 120 feet by 60 ft, a standard plot

This calculation is based on 9 inches block fence .
The measurement we are using is 120 ft (length) and since we have two lengths that is multiply by 2 which is 240 ft. (120 x 2) = 240

The breadth is 60 ft and also since we have 2 breadths that equal 120 ft (60 x 2) = 120
Then (240 + 120) that is 360 feet perimeter line fencing.

The calculation

(we are to convert this 360 feet to inches ) since a foot is 12 inches , now let us multiply 12 inches by 360 ft which is 4320 inches.

Now to get the line numbers of blocks that will go around the fence perimeters of 4320 inches or 360 feet, we would need to divide 4320 by 18 inches, since the length of any block be it 6 inches or 9 inches is 18inches.

Now 4320 inches divide by 18 inches is approximately 240 line of blocks , then we must multiply that by the numbers of coaches of blocks you want for your height, assuming 7 ft which is 9 coaches that means 240 multiply by 9 which is 2160 blocks and that is all you need anything aside from this is fake and fraud, this calculation is derive by me professionally and i have been using it without any mistake, but always remember to add 10 % of blocks to it because of broken blocks, and for this work, you only need 30 bags of cements, one bag of cement to 70 blocks, is standard.

for your pillars between the fence, let assume 6 blocks far from the next pillar, that means 6 divide by 240 which is 40 pillars, 1 bag of cement to 2 pillars standard, that is 17 bags plus 40 bags that is 47 bags is need by me to do this fence, if i'm in position and you should also to add 15 bags for floor blinding of the fence making 62 bags of cement.

Then, we need to minus the gate and the pillars that are also taking space in the fence.

The gate is 12 ft, let us assume the gate columns or pillars is 14 inches each, we have 2 pillars holding the gate, that is 28 inches or 2. 4 feet plus 12 feet that is 14.4 feet or approximately 15 feet.

Remember we already calculate the pillars that 40 pillars is need for the measurement.

Each pillar or column for 9 inches concrete is 9 inches square, 9 x 40 = 360 inches that is (30 feet + 15 feet = 45 feet ) / 18 inches = 30 blocks multiply by the number of coaches, 30 x 9 = 270 block minus 2160 blocks = 1890 blocks in total.

40 lengths of 12mm iron rod, since one pillar is equivalent to 1 length.

3 lengths of 16mm iron rod for the 2 big pillars holding the gate.

90 planks of soft wood for the framing.

1 truck of granite (granite would be use for the wall foundation and columns)

5 trucks of sharp sand

Thanks for the opportunity giving me to explain this simple arithmetic.

Regards
Adeniyi
Life Light Properties
08088574969, 08182481552
lifelightproperties@gmail.com

Thank you for layman simple explanation, if you have time please tell us or include in tons the size of those Mack truck for sand and granite.

EgunMogaji:
I haven't been able to reach the actual thug that I left in charge of watching the land so to speak. It's him that i want to handle the situation.

Omo Ina La Nra Si Ina.

That is to say fire for fire, I dey fill you na Naija of today be that.

Aventures:
Well, the approval people came but our client is handling that. We no for sure that the Material Testing guys can as well come, but we know for sure when they come there would always be away out.
We have varying heights of our ground beam some are 1.6m high while some are 1.3m high (approx. 4-5 boards). Well it is better to be precise about your fdn height before commencement because you may not be able to add to it as long as it is raft fdn, but rather what some people do is to add filled solid blocks to the top of grd beam and later add a capping beam before the reinforced ground floor slab

Good job know question to your judgment.

PeoplesArmy:
I think the one Spyder does, called "in situ" concrete is more expensive than this one called "precast" fascia. From my cost comparison over the years and in different threads, the overall cost of in situ concrete may be up to 1.6 times that of pre cast fascia.

Thank you it seems you the one that understand my question, although I and hajji had long discussion about it this evening.

abdulwastecx:
Today mark the fifth week on the job....
The speed of the job has been okay considering rain and other unfavorable weather conditions.

@Abudlwastecx you did not answer my question for precast facial?

LondonCool:
@EkoAlobo,

Thanks for your incisive feedback. The Site Engineer doesn't get involved in the procurement of building materials, it's usually done by my younger brother. I also usually disburse funds when I'm on ground at the site whenever I visit and not from abroad.

I would be willing to contract the procurement and delivery of the materials to building site to you if you can deliver on your quote.

I must add that the site location is on the outskirts of Calabar (along the Bacoco/ Nasarawa Road), which does bring up some logistic problems for delivery of materials from
Calabar.

Additionally, there is an unwritten rule that labourers should be hired first from the youths in the village before outsiders and they do tend to push a very high collective bargain for their rates.

We tend to buy sand and cement locally. However, I'd be happy to enter into an arrangement with you during my next visit in 3 months time.

@londoncol both of this guys have not told you what type of cement and blocks are the buying, in my opinion don't rush to conclusion find out first. This is the advantage of coming to public, one can see the diffrece in this numbers. Clearly is above N350k. I hope the other guy can deliver dangote 42.5 R cermet to you at that price, I was told that brand is the strongest cermet in the market.

BolaHenri:
I have seen the tiling work you posted. Why is it that u don't use spacer while tiling? This ensures that the tiles are evenly spaced and come out in a straight pattern.

Thank for your observers, in addtion to this question.Why are guys level the floor using regular cermet? Here in the west no need for leveling, instead they used white cermet to level the tile, then used what the call ground of the same colour for the tiles to bring nice finish. Can please explain the reason for that.

LondonCool:
Lessons learned so far (for those building from abroad)

1) Make sure you are there physically to supervise each stage of your building project (even if it takes you 4 years)- this is to prevent what happended in 1993 from happening to you.

2) Always engage professionals for your project. Ask them questions. Challenge every assumption. (the Architects on Nairaland were a good sounding board for actualising my building designs). Vicmoor sold me the idea of having a penthouse in my bungalow. Segzy14 always checked up on the progress of the building project and provided some sound advice.

3) Have at least one reliable home person on ground. I used my younger brother and my Architect friend, though they used to checkmate each other, I was getting spot-on updates on the work progress corroborated by 2 sources.

4) I bought a camera and SD card for my brother with the caveat that he had to give me weekly pictures about the work progress via Whatsapp (with his face in picture, lol). Look for a way to get visual updates about your project.

5) Get ready for other anciliary costs after purchasing your land. I paid lots of money for Land registration , Town Planning approval, Site Analysis/Charting, etc.

Man your was weekly, when I was doing my I paid a guy that as nothing to do with the project to give me daily pictures update on the site thru whatsapp. I remember one of my family member was trying to chase him way,not knowing he was doing what I paid him to do. When the discover that they stop messing with my money.

EgunMogaji:
http://villageheadmaster.com/forums/topic/designing-and-building-my-bungalow/ for in depth stuff but I'll continue to heckle you on here.

But first I may need a new alternator and/or battery.

welcome to Naija, find your way to ladipo auto part market in Mushin. I'm waiting to hear your practical experience of your master plan for your trip, without them slowing you down Naija way of doing things.

BOUWEG:
Roof-work in progress

Waooooo, good job bros.

Horus:
https://i.imgur.com/PuwWwyz.jpg?1

Thank you for your time on this, about 3year ago when I went Naija many of my friend don't no this project was going on.

LondonCool:
This was the original 3D version done for me by Vicmoor.

Good job, already in first roll seat in class, Hajji is going to next seat to me. hajji I hope you have your note book with you.

LondonCool:
I have decided to diarise my building experience involving the building of a 3 bedroom Bungalow + Penthouse at Calabar (close to Tinapa). Since i'm based in London I have decided to project manage the construction in phases by myself each time I visited Nigeria. I bought a 150 x 100 plot of land in June 2014 and visited in December 2014 to oversee the fencing of the plot. In August 2015 I visited for the excavation phase to the German floor phase before leaving. I also annexed a 50 x 50 plot next to mine during my visit (a good place to locate the 2 x 3 bedroom flat BQ, Borehole, Generator room at the back of the plot).

Features: Ground Floor
Ante-room, Lounge, Dinning room, Kitchen/ Store, 3 Bedroom (ensuite -including Visitors room), stairwell, visitors toilet.

Penthouse: Masters bedroom ensuite with balcony, Second bedroom ensuite

Most of the input came from Nairaland members here

*Original plan (5 bedroom bungalow) designed by megaplanpro
*First penthouse design-by Vicmoor
*BoQ for Fencing cost + building advice- by Segzy14
*Structural design advice by Onakomaya

Welcome back, can you share the 3D plan of the house. If possible progress of the house.