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ladywise:
Size is 50 by 100

what about the floor plan? can i send someone on a site visit since I'm not on ground? given the cost of the project can you tell us the quality of the finishing, pop ceiling, glazed tiles etc? i sincerely doubt Nigerians would cough out 15milla without more info and verification.

Roofers in the house please submit ur bids

this is more realistic than the nonsense published by the tribalist led national bureau of statistics

show the floor plan with the dimensions(sizes)

FastShipping:
Having a laundry room between kitchen and dining room is something I have never seen done before. Consider moving the dining close to the kitchen. A dining room should not be that far away from the kitchen.

i don't most Nigerians would mind but ideally, he should put the kitchen at the laundry position and the laundry at yhe current kitchen position, that should solve d problem. it's still a very nice plan though not perfect

abdulwastecx:
225mm head course, means a 9" concrete beam place ontop of the building serving as the final course to receive the roofing truss ( tie beam and rafter).

Light reinforcement means Nominal reinforcement ( a minimum reinforcement of say 2Y10 down and 2Y12 up), though you need the 1/8 iron tie rods spaced @ 4ft (1.2m) center to tie the roof truss to the building.

Concrete foundation footing is what people commonly or mistakenly called blinding.
Blinding is a weak concrete no necessarily of the strength of the main structural member intended to protect, which help protect such member from the surface of the soil below.
Concrete strip footing can be define as a type of shallow foundation ( shallow foundation <= width or with depth < = 1.5m) which carries uniformly distributed load ( load from load bearing partition walls). we have normal strip and wide strip ( due too poorer soil and low bearing capacity),, wide strip requires reinforcement against shear stress.

guy, ur too good, you have memorized the entire building design and construction textbook off head. i like the part about the light reinforcement. it will tie the entire structure with the chain beams into solid mass capable of withstanding earth tremors and flash floods

mufutau55:
Please what is the external dimensions of this building... This is very nice.

So, if not built in an expensive city like Port-Harcourt, it could even be lower.
The cost you gave covered all the finishing at least in a moderate version, not elaborate?
Thanks.

Hajji M.

abdulwastecx:
Element 2: Setting out of the foundation using profile board
Area of building = 13.2m x 10.2m
perimeter = (2 x 13.2) + (10.2 x 2) = 46.8m
Number of pegs assuming spacing of 1.2m c/c = 46.8/1.2 = 39pegs ( use 45pegs)
since 1 bundle has 24pegs, you need 2 bundle of peg @ N1,000/peg = N2,000
Profile board using a profile of 2" x 2" x 11' ( soft 2 x 2 wood) = 47/3 =17nr @ N200 = N3,400
Others miscellaneous = N5,000
Workmanship of one carpenter and one labor = N 6,000
Total = N16,400

mufutau55:
Please what is the external dimensions of this building... This is very nice.

So, if not built in an expensive city like Port-Harcourt, it could even be lower.
The cost you gave covered all the finishing at least in a moderate version, not elaborate?
Thanks.

Hajji M.

from his area calculation above, it should be 10.2m by 13.2 m. that's roughly 33feet by 43 feet. very compact in my own thinking if you consider the large sizes of most rooms in the house.

abdulwastecx:
here is the floor plan

that is the best three bedroom floor plan i have ever seen, excellent use of space. ur truely gifted and skilled. let's continue with the analysis but please use more of layman's language,

thanks for the explanation but please i have a few more questions/suggestions (1) by 225mm headcourse, do you mean part of the walls that enters into the roof? does the mild reinforcement mean the iron tie rods used to hold the roof woodwork? (2) by concrete roofing do you mean foundation blinding? (3) do you mind if i give you what i consider to be low cost three bedroom floor plan and 3d and u will use it for a similar analysis in a new thread since i wouldn't want to derail this beautiful thread u have already started? ur gradually becoming another Spyder880, keep it up

abdulwastecx:
ELEMENT 3: Foundation concrete work
perimeter of foundation = 120m
width of strip footings = 0.675m
depth of foundation footing = 0.225m

Volume of concrete = 120 x 0.675 x 0.225 = 18.225m3
using a mix ratio of 1:3:6

part of cement = 1/9 x 18.225 x 1506/50 = 61bags ( 75bags) = N150,000

part sand = 3/9 x 18.225 x 1.6/10 = 0.972 ( 1 trip of four bucket sharp sand) = N30,000

part of gravel = 6/9 x 18.225 x 2.4/30 = 1 trip of 30tonnes 3/4 gravel = N220,000

workmanship = N60,000

Total = N460,000

i guess this includes the oversite concrete(German floor)

nice cost analysis but you should have started by defining what is low cost, also a floor plan would be necessary, a three bedroom designed by some of our real estate companies would be remarkably smaller than one designed specifically for a client. are the rooms en suit? pls let's see the floor plan

as a full blooded nwa afo igbo, all i have to say is ndi igbo ntoooor unu. i live in the north and i can boldly say that the reason some igbos did not go home during last election was because they owned mansions in the north but nothing in their villages, some of the igbos that went home did not even reach their villages because they don't have anything there instead they were hanging around with their families in relatives homes in the urban areas. shame on u, go and develop your homeland. I'm still loving anambra where government does not go about destroying ppls properties in the name of tribalism.

idros4real:
I don't know if you are a QS, but i will like you to help to estimate the cost of this helipad below.

dude I'm a builder and i can boldly tell u that helipad u pictured is for an unknown farmer somewhere in the western hemisphere. buhari won't use anything like that. you can argue all you want but you know within yourself that I'm saying the truth.

oga mu, i hope this thread has not bed abandoned? pls did u place horizontal iron reinforcement on the fence

olalat:
Have visited dt countryside b4? No grass sir. Iv bn there. Infact i cnt spend complete 1 mnth b4 i ran bk to my base. If d pilot tries it, he will crash land. D dust is too much, for katsina i visited o o. Even u as individual can build dat tin for him.

I'm in the north and i can boldly tell u that politicians land in open school fields here all the time with their helicopters without crash landing. a presidential helipad would cost millions and it's a sign of irresponsibility at this time of national economic crunsh to build a presidential helipad in his village before building anything for the citizens

only a fool would believe a helipad would cost 2million, the fencing alone would gulp multiples of that.the APC propaganda room is always at work on nairaland

handsomeclouds:
you don't have to sound silly- sarcastic to air your views

and u have to quote me twice for that? clearly, a nerve wae hit.

still loving anambra. a multimillion naira house was abandoned less than a month ago and the state governor personally ordered its demolition because he can't see any better use for it?ha ha, i laugh in kanuri

mufutau55:
Good word. That is why I hate those little dingy windows people made for Toilets/Bathrooms. My windows are not smaller than 2ft 6in if possible I make them 3ft. Cost is not that different anyway.

Hajji M.

nawa o, i hope they are not more than 2feet in height and set about five feet high from d ground for privacy purpose. Nigerians always turning architectural standards upside down

Whynotthetruth:
Ya...its quite pathetic...also guys not just babes are involved in this mess of being an educated illiterate...I have met many of them and continues to meet many more...and unfortunately they are the loudest in the society...good day!!!

ha ha ur a girl masquerading as a guy, relax, ever year guys are demobilized cos of poor performance. it's not a girls thing only.

handsomeclouds:
can you please rewrite your post in an understandable way. Its not passing any message

his post is 100% clear. are u working from the APC propaganda room?

Whynotthetruth:
God forgive me...but sometimes it seems the huge unemployment ratio is justified by the IQ of most youths...Am sorry anyway...

Nigeria have millions of unemployed graduates yet our schools suffer from shortage of mathematics and science teachers, oil and construction companies search abroad for skilled manpower, we fly patients abroad for what is routine treatment in India,we can't design and build our own refineries,cement factories, ship dockyards etc, even building artisans from other west African countries are taken over our building sector. we even import people from Niger and Chad to dig our water Wells. we are the world largest buyers of blackberry phones yet most of us are living on a dollar or less. as a youth core member, i was ridiculed heavily to a point of enemity cos i was a book worm rather than the womanizer, runs girl that they are while forming religious fellows. any attempt to have an in-depth discussion on any topic would reveal their shallowness. they would rather die than read a book. practically all the girls can't write a simple application to travel because their written English waw extremely poor, even Nigerian newspapers are replete with very poor English

darenyx:
Not in all cases, and not in all states, the required setback vary with the land size.. if I were to us that amount of setbacks on a 50 x 50 plot.. I would be having just 30 x 20 to develop a property on.. which becomes practically useless.. the laws aren't that rigid.. there's always room for consideration..

thanks for the quick enlightenment

Whynotthetruth:
Did you read the post before going all out to spew trash?

99% of those idiots can't read anything more than two lines long nor can they understand anything requiring more intelligence than that of a rat

adioolayi:
It's a clamped down on fake products without identity.... It's hightime our drug market became dumping site for counterfeit! Parallel imported products without NAFDAC number litters everywhere... there must be a stop to it! This should be a welcome development ...except you are involved in parallel importation and circulation of substandard products.

u quoted me and yet failed to address any of the issues i raised, pls don't start arguments for just the sake of it. they are creating monopolies and that's crony capitalism.

otiigba1:
The capitalists are here, soon the goverments will take over selling akara, moin moin, and dry fish, with the excuse of getting rid of fake beans and fake fish then it will be only the rich who can afford things

relax, Nigerians are yet to learn their lessons. even seedlings for planting would be patented by the capitalists. the day i lost hope in America was the day a man was sent to prison for fetching water and snow run off from his roof to his water thank through a roof gutter. his offense? challenging the monopoly of the state over all water including rainfall. the funny thing was that the water tank has been used by his family for decades.

rhymz:
can you stop deluding yourself with that trite argument of Lagos being no man's land. Fashola is not interested in you, that is why common sense should tell you to build in your home town first as that is an investment you can not lose as a result of one ill-tempered government deporting to that village you look with so much disdain.

you're misunderstanding my post. it's in response to an earlier post

more samples

your constructive criticism would be highly appreciated

pls, me dear fellow nairalanders, I'm learning architectural modeling with archicad and I'm really in need of real life floor plans to use for practice. therefore I'm pleading with you to donate your old building floor plans so i can use it to gain some real life modeling experience. i promise to post all my finished works back on this thread for all to see and learn from. also those who are planning to build can sketch their desired floor plans and i would model it and paste back the floor plans and 3d render back on this thread for them complete with any needed advice/corrections. all you need to do is to take a picture of your floor plan or sketches with your phone and upload it to this thread. thank you all in advance for your contribution towards my self education.