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WILGOZIT:
Hello, Builders in the house. I have a land measuring 50ft by 50ft that i want to develop. I just want to know how far the money i have at hand can take me. Please can someone help me with these questions: 1. Can i build a 3bdroom flat with all rooms ensuit including sitting room, dinning, kitchen & kitchen store on the land? 2. Will there still be space for 2 cars & overhead water tank? 3. How many 6inches blocks can fence the land 2metre height and the bags of that will set the blocks? 4. How many 9inches blocks can build the 3bdroom flat frm foundation and bags of cement that will set the blocks? 5. The land is a plain dry land, will i need stones and i iron for foundation, normal foundation. 5. How many bags of cement can plaster in and out the house. 6. What is average cost of roofing the house with longespan aluminium or cameroon zinc, pls include woodwork and labour. I will appreciate your help. Just want to have an idea.

Would you consider a low cost housing technology I'm selling ? If interested I can list the specs of the 3brm flat if you will like it

Are you in need of Mechanical Engineering Designs and/or mechanical structural drawings.

I can produce the best design drawings for your project complete with Bill of Engineering Measurement and Evaluation (BEME)

Some of the projects I have done for clients include;

Storage tanks design for depots
Pressure vessels
Oil water seperators
Tank foundation and base design
Warehouse structural drawings
Loading Gantry
Filling station canopy
Jetty drawings etc.

Any Engineering designs with respect to any code; API, BS, ASME... etc.

My fees are very friendly ...so if you have been looking for these services reach me on +234 (0)803 493 6964 or mail me at
mecteccontract@gmail.com

Thanks!

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jaro4u:
Secondly, the foundation has not been constructed yet. I am delaying it till I decide which side to go, bungalow or duplex.

Why dont you send me your plan drawings let me give you an estimate of your bungalow when Locotech convention is adopted to it.

businessman7:
what's d quality of rigidity?

For example, if you look at the pic I posted, we have 14 concrete columns in a 3brm flat...and a special mix for the walls so rigidity was not even of a topic.



"Variation of compressive strength with xgf content presented, showed that compressive strength increase with xgf content, with the attainment of 28 days peak compressive strength value of 40.70N/mm2, with 20% xgf content after which a decline was observed"

jaro4u:
Good day guys,

I plan to build a 4 bedroom ensuited bungalow for my family, and I have already began working towards it.

But recently, an idea came to mind of converting to a duplex-like structure. I do not not know whether it has a particular term, but it would be a building that would have all the bedrooms (all en-suited) on the first floor and other structures including kitchen, store, laundry rooms and ante rooms on the ground floor. I feel this gives a greater advantage for spaciousness (if there's any english like that)

Another option is to leave a bedroom on the ground floor as the guest room.

I need your insight if I should keep my initial plan or go for the new one. I have a current budget plan is 8 Million initially planned for the bungalow. Do I need to add more for the duplex, and speculatively how much more.

Please note I am a devoted muslim, I value feminine privacy. My wife uses a Hijab.

Thanks.

The reason a whole 8 million can not complete a house of that type now is because your builders profit is inside that your hard earned 8m.

At Mectec Contract Nig Ltd, we have developed a low cost housing convention (Locotech) that protects the client from excessive profit taking by contractors. We only charge roughly 10% of the cost of our bungalow as our fee.

With 1.9m we will deliver a 3 brm flat of our proposed design although other designs can be converted to Locotech convention but it will never be as expensive as what you get nowadays.

Though we target low cost housing schemes but we also consider single clients who have a plot of land with good soil where piling won't be required.

KolaShangOne:
Bros, Forget the hidden charge, 1.9m for that kinda house is still audacious.
Of course I know your concrete mix cannot possible be 1.2.4 or 1.3.6 or 1.5.7.. I'm guessing 1.8.12? Lol

What is the thickness of the monolithic walls? Up to 225mm? Are partitioning walls also concrete? Doing a concrete slab (German floor).

MAIN QUESTION : What's the size of the house? Gave You Tried Out This Model practically? Will you deliver it in Lagos? Portharcourt? Ogun state?

I'm currently on a project in Ogun state and I know what granite, sand and other materials cost there..

Sir its not just about the mix alone...there is a formular adopted before the mix was designed, all after extensive research and analysis.

Even the method of casting was critical to ensure maximum bonding at shuttering joints.

markpenk:
Locotech, I'm actually intrigued by the concept of building homes using concrete walls. Could you educate us more on this building method? Apart from the seemingly favourable cost implications, I'm also assuming it'll take less time to construct than the conventional block moulding methods we're used to, no? How about factors like insulation, ventilation, aeration and so on? Could you show us some examples of finished projects here in naija?

Surfed the web for some pictures too and I like what I'm seeing. Please see attached pics if you're interested.

Yes besides the low cost which was our primary aim, it takes 3 to 4 weeks to complete and the owner moves in. The issue of insulation ventilation and aeration are as follows: Insulation against cold was of little importance to us because we are in Nigeria and have a temperate climate and if it is of any threat...we can easily control that by what we wear.

But the issue of heat gave us some thought because since the walls are monolithic, heat will propagate through conduction faster than if the walls had hollows in them where convection and radiation slows down heat transfer...instead what we did was to adopt the use of burnt brick tiles for the east side of our building for clients who take this factor seriously.

For ventilation, firstly, if you look at our building you won't know its a different convention even if you are inside. Unless the owner tells you. Everything is conventional except the walls. Windows are aluminium glass, roofing is aluminium long span(cheaper than stone coated tiles ), ceiling in the sitting room is suspended gypsum ceiling tiles, other areas are conventional asbestos ceiling, all floors are tiles, toilets walls tiled to 2m high. All doors are are wooden doors N7000 each or there about.

The concept was to use expensive finishes in small quantities in few areas at a time so when you look at the house in total you get the feeling the suspended ceiling is everywhere for example.

Ventilation and aeration are functions of doors and window openings and in this area we were conventional so you have no troubles...

...Looking at it you will never know its different except you are told or shown the walls in detail.

Feel free to engage us more
lowcostideas@gmail.com

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Also very soon we will have live construction pics and location to upload here and for our new website we are still talking with our clients... Sorry about that.

mastercee:
You need where to showcase your service. You don't even have a thread yet on NL, at least start a thread here by posting adequate information about your products and services. A lot of people might be interested in your innovation

We started from twitter @Locotech_crib few weeks back and we will expand with time...Nairaland and Facebook but that will be after our Locotech website is ready...we can't use our piling website to push this product.

EgunMogaji:
So you're marketing poured concrete walls. Good. I had a high interest in that.

Don't just say that it's cheaper. Calculate it out for us, use one wall as an example.

I really appreciate your engineering point of argument and in fact that is the type of argument we designed our walls for...but we would reserve the right to make this type of argument in private not on a public forum like this. We fully understand that a cubic meter of concrete goes for N35,000 to N40,000 so when we say our monolithic walls are far cheaper and even stronger because we adopted an optimized mix which we can't devulge here just for boasting.... We know what we are saying.

Thanks ones again for your objective and practical approach.

EgunMogaji:
Just share the info here or on a website.

Don't require people to call you or chat with you.

No matter how fantabulous your sale or service is, you need to get it in front of the clients properly.

Sir we are a piling company specializing in foundation systems and we have just started this low cost building technology in Nigeria and we have our target market which are government, ministries and companies with staff housing plans. We are not very interested in individual clients because we are talking low cost so the only way we can practically make profit is from multiple constructions not 1 offs.

But that not withstanding, we can consider single clients based on his level of interest in our product because its not easy up convince a Nigerian so any one interested will be given full consideration.

Here is our website for foundation works like I said earlier
www.mecteccontract.wix.com/mectec

EgunMogaji:
I won't even waste my time.

Most Engineers are enslaved to norms and this prevents them from noticing new practices and technologies...You will agree with me that a lot of alternative practices have emerged recently...from using cooking gas to fuel generators to using dried tomatoes to make stew.

Its natural, when things become expensive...alternatives are born. Its funny because the same building materials you use to build a 12m naira flat...another company will adopt alternative modes and achieve same at an affordable price. It will be painful in the beginning but sooner everybody will adopt it.

businessman7:
which one is locotech again?

Locotech Convention is a cheaper construction method using monolithic walls whereby the walls of the building are cast like concrete without the use of blocks...just cement, sand, and granite formular with BRC mesh insitu...

This convention doesn't require blocks, and doesn't need plastering after casting ...all you do next is just to paint or screed according to your budget.

There are no conventional lintels ...instead you have lintel bars which are cheaper than making lintel with concrete and reinforcement.

All the rooms are ensuit ie 4 toilets and 3 baths....
Let me attach the foundation template for y'all.

businessman7:
good Nl members please I want to build a 3 bedroom bungalow along d line of making my research on the internet I notice it can be built for 12m isn't that too much please can I get something cheaper than that?

Why dont you adopt our Locotech Convention... You can get a 3 brm Locotech flat for 1.9m ...check us out on twitter @Locotech_crib

Or talk to us via lowcostideas@gmail.com