₦airaland Forum

omonuan: Are tiles cheaper or better when bought overseas? The answer is it depends. At the prices quoted above by Spyder 5000 naira per sqm is $31.25 per sqm @160 to 1; 3500 naira is $21.87; 1500 naira is 9.37 dollars; even 900 naira is. $5.63. These costs are not relatively cheap. I know that in the U.S. you can find a good auction where you can buy high quality tiles at less than $1.00 per square ft. You can buy high quality granite tiles for less than $2.00 per square ft.

I am aware that bad tillers do mess up even quality tiles but ugly tile work could be either bad tiles or bad tillers or a combination of both. A few years ago when I built my personal house, it was tiled but tiles were removed after I saw how horrible they looked. I had to replace them with Terrazzo.

Nigerians seem to like these flowery usually ugly by the way set of tiles especially in the bathrooms. Due to lack of maintenance these tiles seem to look terrible after many years of neglect. Also, Nigerians use smooth surface tiles on the floors thereby creating hazards within the homes.

In the U.S., Terrazo is more expensive and more regarded than tiles. However, Nigerians seem to have abandoned this form of flooring in favor of tiles for some reasons. There is an auction coming up soon and I hope to buy as much building materials as I can. I intend to buy doors, tiles, sinks, commode etc. I have already bought 385 gallons of high quality paints for less than $700 or 112,000 naira. I used $2000 to ship and clear it with other items in Nigeria. Some of the paints are regularly $40 to $200 per gallon but I bought them from an auction of hardware store going out of business. These types of deals abound in the U.S.

Billyonaire: You are wrong my friend. Soldiers are on the streets of Lagos crushing Okada, are you blaming GEJ for this ?

spyder880: jhdehlhblids

mukina2: .....Crooked Nigerian Businessman. He buys the Nigerian company for almost nothing through a crooked Nigerian Government and sells it to foreigners. Thieves!!!!!

http://www.channelstv.com/home/2012/09/25/south-african-firms-buys-63-per-cent-of-dangote-flour/

Sagamite: May your family and descendents live the lives provided by the leaders you pray for.

May they never live a life better than what those leaders intentionally give your society.

spyder880: internal plumbing is also very much in progress

spyder880: According to a welder I showed this water tank stand (3 tanks they called it) he gave me this list, I have not checked the accuracy of his prices but maybe our friends here can help put a thing or two into perspective;

1. 4'' round pipes (6mm) 6x22,000 = 132,000
2. 4'' u channel iron (thick) 8 x 8500 = 68,000
3. 14 guage flat sheets 11/2 = 12750
4. 11/2 angle iron 1600 x 15 = 24,000
material total according to him is 236,800 and he will do the work and insall it with 70,000, but we need a second opinion from another welder also.

spyder880: I will make some calls about that later today, besides the guy that did this tank stand did a bad job, whats your location?

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