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Sir, What is your motivation, right now?
- Money?
- Name/Fame
- Growth
- Self Fulfilment / Self Pride?
- Others?

I am just curious, because l am admiring your guts, while trying to understand you.



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he said he has need for over fifty doors and I believe that if I impress him with the sample,he might give me the chance to do the rest. Another thing is that his word carried weight around here. Should he confirm that my job is really good, I believe others will be encouraged to patronise me

BrabusNG:
Ok.

My assumption is most professionals/tradespeople juggle multiple jobs at once, meaning if they are taking on a new project it will usually have to fit in and around existing work or a future start date will be set.
So I always give them ample time to deliver a good job.

If they are able to jumpstart immediately or deliver it in a jiffy or move from Kano to Bayelsa within a week, that signifies absence of real work to keep them engaged and this could be down to their lack of skills or something more concerning.

That’s the way I think though.


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I have a guy who make wooden doors. You have to give him notice months ahead if you really want to use his doors.

His company name is Geometro.

A nairalander called him for more than 2 weeks just to setup meeting with him. When he told me, I smiled and said “We always book him months ahead. He’s never in rush to take up new jobs because he’s always busy.”

you can't be as busy as factories in China and they still hit targets. Just because I give my job everything doesn't mean that I am less busy. As I'm not married, I wake up in the morning and the next thing on my mind is how to deliver the next job. Being able to deliver on time will endear me to clients and also ensure that I utilize my profits. Let's say I pick up a job today with a profit of 1,000, if you delay on the job, you will end up making less money cause as the day breaks, so does the value of your profit depreciates.

Another thing is that once someone realizes that you are too busy for them, you are bound to loose customers and believe me, even your loyal customers will one day stop coming no matter how good you are at your work. That is what kills a good brand. It takes more than skill to grow and maintain a brand. Instead of you to sleep and die in a job,hire extra hands,if you think they can't hit your desired quality, train your own capable hands.

As good and big as Julius Berger is, they still use flood lights to work on projects to ensure timely delivery. If they can work while others are sleeping just to deliver, I don't know who I am that I can't ensure that I deliver within the shortest time possible and still do a quality job

EgunMogaji2:
Interesting.

good evening sir. My offer to do about two doors for you as sample still stands. Let me give you a sample your locality can't match at all in terms of quality, pricing and beauty too

MrBrownJay1:
You lack serious credibility by opening a new account to come beg on NL...

tell them oh. Why ask for help when you are too proud to show your identity and real self

As you have congratulated them for awarding the contract. Kindly complete the project or else you're owing us oh. Make the congratulations no waste

BrabusNG:
I don’t use usually use that type of door so I don’t keep it in my collection.

If you check thousands of images that I have shared online on various platform (Nairaland, Facebook, Houzz, Nigerian Property Centre, Construction Journal, Skyscrapercity, NextHome websites...), you won’t find one.
So I can’t really tell which is good or bad.

When I use the word “we” it doesn’t really mean I did it anyway. The client picked his order.


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If I’d be fair, I think there’s really nothing to justify the huge price difference.

actually there's. The cost of living and the processes involved in making the doors. Just because I'm able to start and finish seven in two days (this is without extra hands) doesn't mean everyone else can. Those things are what really happen. Another thing is that the cost of production here is quite very competitive. You told me people are paid on a daily basis instead of what they could do. That attitude doesn't help in increasing competition and fine tuning the skills.

Let's say I asked you to work and you don't do a good job, consider yourself done with. It's that simple. You must be fast and still do good job. Those things are negligible but very much affect the prices

See meat and food oh.

BrabusNG:
Issokay!

So we still bought the same door 41k in Ibadan 2 days ago.

The guy was like “He’s doing us a huge favour.”

At 41,000, can his work look this good. Why not take a picture let's compare

A close up view of the finishings. I understand it's not perfect but we strive to improve on our current efforts.

There might be some things we overlooked but with your eagle eyes, I believe I can be corrected.

Thanks for your time

I put in lots of effort to ensure that I get this job delivered today. Called the owner and he didn't believe me when I told him his job is ready. He told me he will be coming for them tomorrow morning

We started these on Monday and finished them today. We experienced some delay because of the rain sha. Follow my thread and see what we can do. Thanks

https://www.nairaland.com/4088969/classy-iron-works/1

Righteousness89:
Congratulations Brother..
You Have a Virtous Woman..
Do not Joke with that Privilege

as a righteous person, I thought you will stand against sex because it's meant for procreation. Her job is to make humans enjoy sex and indulge more often in it

We have suffered. Excuse full everywhere.

The best network in Nigeria is Glo while the very worst is MTN.

For more than two weeks now, I can't make calls without the other person complaining about not hearing my voice. I have to always toggle my airplane mode to enable me browse. Sometimes I will reboot sef.

Good morning everyone.


Can you please take out time and look at my thread to see what I'm currently working on. If it please you, you can follow too. Thanks for your time.

Please I need your suggestions and criticism cause I really need to improve myself and my service delivery

https://www.nairaland.com/4088969/classy-iron-works/1

Explorers:
Am i the only one experiencing this?

Thread took me over 3hrs.

Seun

no you are not alone in the predicament

And the almighty rain came and we couldn't paint but we managed to do something. Tomorrow morning and the painting will start.

Hope your day was better.


PS that's not me applying the body filler oh

DEGREE2466:
My brother, I didn't ask for price before taking pictures. That number 1 is 1.6 million.

Number 3 is about 500k

I had to settle for the one attached which I got for 360k

where's the location

true2home:
I for one do not worry about what everyone is doing. [b]If a tenant is too big for what i have to rent, they are way too big to be a renter; i always advise them to go build their own house[/b]Most ROI on renter in " Big Area Codes" like Lekki are in the Mid Single digit like 4% -6%. You buy land for 10M conservatively, Build with 45M. Then rent for 2M...

I have a studio apartment that i used as experiment. The first unit cost me #1.8M; POP, Sweethome toilet, Marble slabs etc. The subsequent ones were without POP and the #45k Sweethome toilet. Guess what? the after units with less expensive fixtures commanded 40K per annum more than the first unit.

It good to build luxury homes, but let it be because you want it so, not because you think the market demands it. [b]In a country like Nigeria with City with massive home shortage, 17M units shortage per year; what Nigerians need is a Clean, Safe and Affordable accomodation, not luxury. Like i said above, any tenant that wants luxury, he or she should go build his or her own. Lobaton!!!

the bolded knocked me out completely

jabolo:
Thanks in advance. Your contributions on this forum are highly appreciated Chief.

And if any metalworker on this forum wants to run with the concept, especially as a retro-fit option, there would be a good market for this.

Cc Michlin (and any other metal fabricator)

Personally I have over two dozen windows where this can be deployed, again as a retrofit.

drop a measurement and I will make you a concept. If it's ok with you,we can run the rest

mufutau55:
Waiting for the finished version. Looking good already.

Hajji M.

follow up and you will

Having finished with the job above, these are some of the works I'm currently working on.


Starting working on these seven doors today and I intend to paint it by Tuesday or Wednesday latest. My delivery target is Saturday but as it is now, I will beat the target

DisLifeSha:
But when one remains in one spot for long. I've been living in a circle and this circle is going backwards

I won't say I understand what you're going through but no one moves in a circle. The pace at which your life is moving might differ from mine but that doesn't mean you aren't moving forward. Some people are meant to run their life race very quick and end quick too. Don't look at them and use it as a yardstick for yourself

At some point, you will feel let down but that's normal. Don't loose focus on what's important which is knowing that whatever you are going through today won't outlive you. ...

You're a special person, you're strong, you're not a disappointment, you're not a failure

It's not his fault that there's economic downturn. Shift your blame to appropriate quarters.


See others machines around the car

valencia2012:
Affirmative!
Location is Nwangele LGA, Imo State. (Amaigbo environs).
I will send details to the WhatsApp number you provided here. Am also willing to sponsor the cost of your trip my site in the village. Let me know your itinerary, so I can check against my off duty dates. In this manner, we'll have uninterrupted contact on the D Day as I also link you up with my caretaker.

let's make it a weekend event. Friday will be perfect for me. Let me know if that's ok with you too

BrabusNG:
To a large extent, I think I’ve explored and used a lot of these materials.
I even went as far as talking to Hammerglass in Sweden for fortified glass but what I’ve found out is that all these solutions are not a guarantee against burglary. They can only serve as deterrent.

An armoured door without a BinLaden fortified building is just as good as having a normal door.

When armed robbers attacked one of the new generation banks, they break-in through the wall and not the doors.

God is the surest protection.

you need to know that if criminals knock on your door, they are very much prepared for it. Na you go still use your hand open the doors and beg them to spare your life. That's how funny the whole thing is.

valencia2012:
Sure, this is it.
For the stair rail, I ended up with this made of wrought too.
I'll ask my architect and foreman to send me the measurements/dimensions for your action.

kindly furnish me with the location let me go take the measurements myself if you don't mind

Happy New Year to you all

rotecch77:
My brother there are many materials used as bulletproof
The best and old materials is KEVLER its a synthetic fiber materials.
And others like acrylic, polycarbonate, steel (of high thickness) and Africa locally made “ayeeta” don't ask me this oo

So not only steel can used as bulletproof materials
But the best bulletproof is ALMIGHTY GOD PROTECTION

I'm speaking as a welder which materials are readily available to you

Lexusgs430:
If mtk device, download mtk engineering mode and apply as appropriate..........

it's a snapdragon 617 chip

valencia2012:
Good day bro.
Unfortunately, we started on a sour note last week and this really put me off with direct or private contact coupled with my absence. I'll recommend we do our deal here from planning, pictures and execution for others to teach or learn. We should only keep your fees and locations private. Please, this is only a suggestion.
So, we have a balcony railing I already sent to you here and another staircase rail made of wrought iron to plan with.

ok cool. How do we proceed. Kindly furnish us with the design of the rails and step rails you have in mind. Thanks

Good morning sir.

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Here's the picture of the rail you talked about right