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ugo99:
I just searched on the website, and I see https://www.nairaland.com/1338637/chateau-ile-oluji-construction-journal
The username of the builder is differernt so am not sure what you are talking about

ugo99:
Ok

ugo99:
What do you mean by stones and truck
He appears to be knowleageable in the construction field

44chux:
Don't even think about that.
For starters he has bragged that he won't accept any job beyond 20km from his lagos office



But most importantly, if he accepts, he'll just source it out to locals in the area and expect to supervise them through the internet.
Check out the issues with his PH project.

ugo99:
what is your email and do you work in the East as I want to start work on my land there.

podosci:
Some parts of Nigeria have running tap water especially the capital cities, My location in Suleja,Niger state as 24hrs water supply. Things are bad but not that bad

mufutau55:
Very, very sad. But we have no choice o. Even Dangote go get borehole for him house o.

Hajji M.

abdulwastecx:
That is the standard way to build isolated, combined or continuous pad footings.

In Nigeria, we just incorporated isolated strip footings to pad footings for small residential frame structures because we are too use with building with strip.

The method above requires lot of cut and filled expecially when the ground topography is sloppy and since we hardly grade our site to remove top vegetables soil before construction, it make sense to use pad footings with strip.

Check out some of these foundation of a small paint house added to an old bungalow.
In this project an isolated pad base together with grade beam were used.

The pad footings are 1.2m x 1.2m (4 ft x 4ft)
Depth of the footings 1.2m
Thickness of footings is 450mm
Section of foundation columns 450 x 225mm

topsy23:
This project is going to be high rise building with this type of footing

msogunro:
I'm not a builder, nor have I built a custom home before. I talked to a few people before I flew back and inquired about what I should look for in land prime for building. I saw the view from my site and immediately fell in love. Everything that I should have been considered about became an afterthought.

So far, excavation has been an issue because the soil is extremely tough. I expect this to be true when I begin construction of our house.

Even before the geo survey, I suspected that we would need to dig deep. It's at the top of a hill so that was expected.

Because of the high elevation, it gets windy at times and I've been told on several occasions that will need to be addressed for the fence and the house. I'm actually going with 9" blocks instead of 6" block for the fence because of the wind. Luckily, my uncle is an engineer and after visiting my site shortly after purchasing it he said the same thing.

Until my old lady runs out of new ideas and we finalize the floor plan and design, I won't know until we do a full evaluation of the site and plan with real pro's.

From your experience, what are some challenges you think I may run into?

Don't take this as an expert recommendation o! I'm just loving the build and admiring the strategies. And I like critiquing designs and processes.

msogunro:
Haha... It's too much for me too. All I understood was 90m and 5k per meter.

My attention is focused on my fence now. After, I'll get a second opinion on the borehole. My cousin is asking neighbors about their water situation so I'll see if I should go with a borehole or well.

msogunro:
For those who may be interested, The geophysicist has posted some information about the recent geological survey done at my site.

https://www.nairaland.com/3236298/know-geophysical-investigation-borehole-drilling/1#48220887

3strikes:
Make una help me thank Engineer AbdulwasteCX for sending some God fearing workers to my rescue o [s]regarding the yeye roof that Bosun Brabus /N3xt of Next home did for me. roof leaking from day one for almost one year now[/s]......we had to redesign and re-roof the thing. so far am confident the roof wont leak again [s]unless bosun go climb am for night and make holes on it. . but i trust my abooki maiguard ....na bow and arrow he kuku dey use.[/s]

NLresidentQS:
Very well analysed.

You are right that many factors come to play in the farm business. But one point I softly stated is to start small, then expand...as expantiated by 44chux. You will not have to go through bearucracies.

A sustainable farm will start with market analysis:
What products are currently scarce in the consumer market?
What products will soon be scarce due to festivities, naija govt policies etc?
Out of the 41 import-banned products, is there anyone I can focus on?

In the absence of good sale, how do I preserve excess production? Do I even preserve or convert to alternative agro-allied product?

When there is no more request for my fish? Can I partner with baba hafusa pepersoup joint to supply him? Or can I have my wife open up afrozen fish business?

Can I dry the fishes? Blend and process them, and make another product?

Can I can them, and partner with private schools to supply?

By the time I create a sustainable circle of business in paper,
Upon implementation, I will be rest assured I've done my part. Naija factors will always set in...but people have scaled through...why won't our business?

"Mi o RI iru eleyi ri... A fin deruba oloro ni.... Toto, O she bi owe

msogunro:
Nice. Very nice.

Rebar included? Yes

Any strength test conducted? No

How were they lifted into place? They're manually lifted being a lightweight concrete casting. 11.53cm thick

Farm1:
This is good.

What location is this?

44chux:
Those are the key stumbling points for a lot of failed farm projects I know of.

Additionally I always advice to start small (even if resources are more than available), then gradually expand. This allows you to prun/weed/optimise ur staff for performance while reducing the scale of losses associated with the learning curve. If you can't make the small scale profitable, thats an indicator that the large scale will not be self sustaining

Above all else, start with workers you can fire at will without sentiments. Relatives are a no go.

NLresidentQS:
Just wondering about the retirement discussion and businesses to do in Nigeria (stable like the land business) but not susceptible to landgrabbers.

In my opinion, agricultural business cum mini exportation will be the way to go. Agriculture, lime education, oil, natural resources is a driver of economy. It is a business that will provide solution to a problem: hunger, poverty and employment. And now is the best time this is needed in this nation.

If a good amount is on ground to invest, I would suggest a sustainable farm. Yes, sustainable.

A sustainable farm is one that:

1. Does not constantly rely on any external factor.
2. Does not destroy the natural environment.
3. Reduces waste from the environment.
4. Generates profit enough to fend for itself.

Bak in college, I developed a plan for such farm. But you know in Nigeria, lofty plans scarcely find sponsors, unless you know someone. But anyone can imement such a farm, it's simple.

Get a big expanse of land anywhere in the country (even if it be troubled regions). Once much locals are employed in an enterprise, militants scarcely disturb such business, ceteris paribus.

Then have a farm, a poultry, a fishery and a cow ranch. Initially you can power the farm on partial electricity/partial solar. Engage the services of 3 professionals: a project manager, a farm manager and an educated farm supervisor.

Reach out to all these big eateries : Chicken republic, Mr bigs, etc and reach an agreement to collect all their waste.

Buy trucks for haulage, or rent trucks. Then get back to farm plan: have your professionals research on biogas/biofuel: raw materials include from your cows, plants and eateries...you can never run out of all three at the same time. Over time, you would be generating heat/electricity from biogas...you will even have excess for cooking, domestic or to be sold out to people.

You will get manure as by product from biogas too...which will be used on your farm. In 2-3 years, you will eliminate NEPA/fuel electricity from the farm totally.

Meanwhile, use technology in your farm while starting, introduce thumbprint signing in/signing g out, pay per work/not per month/automate your pay, don't ever let raw cash change hand in the farm.

Then, the CSR: make sure 80% workers are from the community, and don't let their be a wide gap between managers and workers finance... You are good to go.

This might look like theory, but I believe one day, I or someone else will implement this farm. It can be you.

God bless Nigeria.

allCopacetic:
If you're talking about just the LED fluorescent Lamp, Yes we do .
We have it in GE.
we do not sell it pcs tho

jossy26:
whats the difference between this one and first group that operates from dubai? i hope its not one of those scamming real estate companies.. anyways people are wiser now

44chux:
They should have invested part of that money on training and staff motivation.

CCTV watches for suspicious behaviour. It has limits, just like it has blind spots.

They had CCTV on konga & Jumia warehouses yet things moved. The best it can do is to try time-stamp the movement of certain goods and see if it was perfected within reasonable time from when it was moved. Hence it can't easily tell a particular one when say 4 similar items (SKU) are moved simultaneously from one part, taking diff alternating paths out but only 3 of them was later paid for within same time span.

Above all else, nigerian staff can be innovative when it comes to stealing.

How far with your metal slab project?
Hope ur enemies never poison ur client

44chux:
It all boils down to staff.
Next time you go to Shoprite, shop with multiple carts, pay for them separately then combine them into one cart after payment and see if you can't pass security with just the purchase recept for one of them. They just glance at it without checking. Thats without an insider help oohhh.