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mufutau55: And see, they could not tell you that Gravels is not enough to erect the stand as opposed to Granite. We all collect and share knowledge on this forum. Imagine if you did not acquire that knowledge to tell them, NO, use only gravels... (they probably wondered where you learnt that) that hard earned N20K will go to useless route...

Hajji M.

Ever since i discovered Nairaland property section, i have turned to a building guru overnight. I wished i had discovered it earlier before i started the project, i would have done things differently but nothing much was lost because i was doing it in phases with a targeted completion period of 3-4 years. My brother who is the project coordinator, his assistant project coordinator and the builder are always baffled as to how i get to know so much. Yesterday, i told the painter to give me a quote for painting but he said that i should tell him how much i want to pay. He said that he is sure that i already know what it will cost since i now know so much about building. Iam still waiting for him to give me a quote and if he ventures give me a funny quote, i will daze him by lecturing him with my Nairaland Property section painting knowledge. I already have an idea of cost from Spyder's painting of his duplex.

ihebrooke: 4 bedroom twin duplex

GROUND FLOOR

Entrance Porch
Ante room
Visitors wc
Guest bedroom
Lounge
Dining
Kitchen
Verandah
Store
Stair hall

FIRST FLOOR
Bedroom 2
Bedroom 3
Masters Bedroom
Terrace(masters bedroom)
Terrace(bedroom 2)


External dimension 16.5m by 16.7m

The Master is back.

vivienbabe: What NL1960 meant is that the man has moulded blocks worth 50 bags of cement. 50 bags of cement can mould 2000 very solid blocks, well enough to finish off a big 3 bedroom bungalow. I'm currently doing something like that and i've already gotten 3000 blocks.

Look, my brother, part of successfully rounding off a house of any size depends largely on your body language to the men on the ground. If you present yourself to them as one of them, they'll treat you as such and you'll know more. But if you come as a 'big boy or big girl", they will treat you accordingly. My hand bag is tightly tucked in my armpit and we melt up together. Nuff said.

Quite true. I called a furniture person to come and give me a quote for wardrobes for my village house project and the guy came and quoted N220k per wardrobe giving a cost of N880k for 4 wardrobes. When i asked him why so expensive, he said that the wardrobe will be MDF and have shoe rack, tie rack and all sorts of racks. I just told him that i had only 2 pairs of shoes (one pair of sandals and one pair of shoes) and so what do i need a shoe rack for?. Na so i almost take cutlass pursue am comot.

2sExy1: foundation cost alone may have eaten almost half of that.

Foundation cost in a dry or waterlogged land?.

vivienbabe: What NL1960 meant is that the man has moulded blocks worth 50 bags of cement. 50 bags of cement can mould 2000 very solid blocks, well enough to finish off a big 3 bedroom bungalow. I'm currently doing something like that and i've already gotten 3000 blocks.

Look, my brother, part of successfully rounding off a house of any size depends largely on your body language to the men on the ground. If you present yourself to them as one of them, they'll treat you as such and you'll know more. But if you come as a 'big boy or big girl", they will treat you accordingly. My hand bag is tightly tucked in my armpit and we melt up together. Nuff said.

Thank you my sister. Before i started my project, i did a deep study to know how the farmers in my village who do not make much money were able to build their houses. As i said finishing chops money and these farmers are not crazy about finishing. As i also mentioned in my post, they will not buy stand in tipper. Boys in the village will give them any quantity of erosion sand that they want. They will not buy wood from sawmill. They will just call a wood man to come and bring down a tree causing problems on their farmlands and they will use the wood. They try as much as possible to eliminate middle men.

Just to give an example of what i did of recent to mount my water tank. I was told to buy granite and after pasting the question here on property forum, Hajji and Spyder said that gravel is enough for the job. Iam now using gravel but i did not buy a tipper load of gravel. My brother just got some boys who went to our village gravel dump and within a few hours they had brought the required number of wheel barrows for just a pittance. Mmeanwhile, i was being told to cough out 20k for the granite. That 20k is what iam currently using for the entire job (transportation of the 19ft tank stand, gravel, cement, blinding, iron, labour etc) and change go still remain.

A building depends on the level of finishing you want for it. Have people ever asked how farmers in the village who sometimes do not make up to 100k net per year from their farm work end up building a house that they live in. My people say that 'a building is just 4 walls and a roof' meaning that after the walls are up and it is roofed, whatever goes into depends on the person. N1.2m is a lot of money for village folks. My brother's friend just finished moulding 50 bags of cement in preparation for starting a bungalow. he did not buy sand. He just got some boys together who went about fetching erosion sand for him from the roadside for little amount. He will pay village labour rate too for the work.

mufutau55: Thank you Oga Ihebrooke. I thought so, I just needed to confirm. Good estimate.
Oga Fhemmmy, this is a chicken-change for you oh!

Hajji M.

Yes ke. The money of one tyre from those his super autos will cover the cost without sweat and still have change.

LebanonCedars2: Haba bros! Do you think nothing good could ever come out of our own Nazareth, our obodo Nigeria

Furniture work is fast becoming a profession for the educated (with modern hand & machine tools) and with little encouragement from both the government and clients, we have all it takes to do even better things than our contemporaries in other nations of the world.

However, this post is not meant to showcase what we have done (we have another thread for that) but to sensitize people about the importance of our kitchen in our homes and what they should look out for when designing their kitchen. Since no one can single handedly construct every kitchen designs, we make use of what we have done combined with the work of others to drive home our point.

So, just sit back, enjoy and see if you can learn one or two things. Although we have lost the initial tread we opened to showcase some of our work (most of which were made for Nairalanders), a new one has been opened. Find the link below:

https://www.nairaland.com/1799959/re-pictorial-representation-kitchen-cabinet

Good response and insights. The guy that did my POP is a Senior Lecturer in a Poly. He did for a friend and when i asked the friend, i was shocked when he said that the guy is a Senior Lecturer at a poly. Gone are the days when these type of jobs were left for the uneducated. Skills is the other of the day now and that is why i so much like the Germans.

mufutau55: I have sent you email with explanations and photos to your direct email address.
They used only Gravels not Granite.. You are right.. they only need to dig the hole, blind it first and fill it with concrete.
I will send you other photos collected from Oga Spyder, how it was done.. some of those photos have been wiped due to the Nairaland's Hackers Disaster but I had them saved and just recently posted some of them in this same thread on (previous page) Page4. May be they want to use Granite instead of the Gravels, I am not sure why but I used Gravels.

Hajji Mufutau

Thanks Hajji. I got all the pictures and explanations. You are too much. If that your H-beam of that height can be mounted with gravel, i see no reason why mine which is galvanized steel and of a lesser height cannot be mounted with gravel.

mufutau55: Sorry for the lateness.. I overlooked this.
I am quite sure we did not use any granite when I was doing mine.. there was an iron mat and regular concrete was used... I instructed them
that the iron must be buried 4ft underground as per one of the one Oga Spyder did. The whole length of the stand is 27ft, out of that 4ft is underground and 23ft on the surface, tall enough for use in the Duplex and the Mens Quarter. And we used H-Beam for the iron not round pipe.
It was fully discussed on one of Oga Spyder's thread before the "Hackers Disaster" on Nairaland wiped it clean.
If you want some pictures of mine.. just send me an email.. I sent it to another person here so I can just forward it to you as well.
Hope this helps a little.

Hajji Mufutau

Thanks Hajji. I have been looking for your mail but could not get it on your profile.

Iam a little bit confused on this concrete thing. I guess the concrete was done with gravel and cement. My stand was done with 3 inches galvanized pipe. So i was expecting that the hole to be dug will not be wide and just gravel and cement would have been enough for the holes only to be told granite and they said 8 wheel barrows of granite.

No vex for this too much question. I had to suspend the mouthing because of what i was told in order to ask questions here.

Please let me have your email so that i can send you a mail.

I have sent you a message through Nairaland email system.

An urgent question is waiting for your answer here:

https://www.nairaland.com/1795231/pictorial-documentation-new-home-building/5#25593809

An urgent question is waiting for your answer here:

https://www.nairaland.com/1795231/pictorial-documentation-new-home-building/5#25593809

An urgent question is waiting for your answer here:

https://www.nairaland.com/1795231/pictorial-documentation-new-home-building/5#25593809

spyder880: More work done on the finish of this house.

Oga spyder880, i want to mount my water tank stand which is like the one shown in this picture and i was told that i need to use granite. Buying a tipper load is out of the question as the remaining will not be used. I was now told that i will need eight( wheel barrows of granite to do this.

Is there an alternative to using granite and if there is no alternative, is eight( barrows not too much considering that three(3) feet will be underground?.


@Hajji, you can also share your experience on the one you did.

Achiles: Are there no tiles sellers here anymore. I need this urgently

see this link and contact the guy.

https://www.nairaland.com/1431031/best-price-tileswater-closetpipes-fitting

segzy14: client: A Nairalander(Rarelaone)
description:3 bedroom all ensuite and a miniflat attached together
...Left side
...Living room
...1 bedroom ensuite
....kitchen
....Visitors w.c

....Right side
....Living room
.....Dining
....Visitors w.c
....Kitchen
.....Store
....Laundry
....Prayer room
....3 bedroom all ensuite
....Balcony in front
....Sit out at the back


..Plot size is 50 x100 feet

The entrances to the 3 bedroom and the mini flat are on the same side. For somebody that want to build this, live in the 3 bedroom and rent out the mini flat, will this same side entrances not intrude on privacy?.

rotecch77: @NL1960 pls resend the mail

resent.

spyder880: Bathroom walls for bigger boys, N2,200 each sqm

Like Hajji. . Na popular side person like me dey.

Demainman1: @Prof Spyder, I love this water tank stand. Pls what material is used? and what is the estimated cost sir?

Also add the height i.e. total height and height above ground level. I want to believe that galvanized steel was used in the construction of the stand. If so, is it 2inches or 3 inches?.

Sent you a mail.

segzy14:

the back of the b.q is facing the back of the duplex because of
1.privacy
2.the fence will form a compound for the b.q.
I hope you get my drift?

Cheers
Samuel

I get the drift and explanation. I guess access to the BQ compound will be through the main gate of the Duplex compound and there will now be a small gate access to the BQ compound.

segzy14: more pics: side view of the 4 bedroom duplex and front view of the boys quarters

Nice one Sam. A portable and cute design fit for a 'President'.

Just a little observation. Why is the back of the BQ facing the back of the Duplex?. I though the front of the BQ should be face the back of the duplex because if this is to be built, the BQ is likely to be at the back of the plot while the Duplex is on the front of the plot.

spyder880: Roofing is not easy on costs, everything about the roof is expensive.

My people have a saying that 'a building is four (4) walls and a roof and that once you roof, you can start sleeping in it'. That is why you see farmers struggling to roof and once that is done, they will just use zinc to cover the window and door and they will move in. Na from roofing that finishing starts.

mufutau55: I think my Papa and your Papa are brothers.. Mine always says the same thing. I think it's an old Yoruba proverb.

Hajji M.

Yes ke. Na Adam and Eve born the two of them now.

gbadexy: Has the painting started sir.
I look forwards to feedback on the paint application.

Not yet. It is billed to be done this month. The rains have been delaying a lot of the finishing works before the painting. Iam hoping to use the normal August break rains if at all we have this year to do it.

kostadinis: Chairman, the water wan test your resolve and you come show am real pepper
You're an express train that has already departed. Just keep doing the beautiful job for people.
I believe many of us appreciates your efforts.

My Papa talk say 'wetin no dey talk, no dey get sense pass person i.e. what does not talk cannot be more sensible than a person'.

Fhemmmy: We have seen that my Brothers and Sisters in Nigeria has shifted to ANYTHING and EVERYTHING Lexus . . . . Se we present you a thread where you could make all your inquiries on LEXUS.

We will keep it to what is legally allowed to get into Lagos and be cleared and as of today, that will be all:
SUV - JEEP from 1999 to Date
Cars - Sedan from 1999 to Date

The prices will INCLUDES buying, transportation to the port in USA/Canada, cost of money transfer from Nigeria to here and all bank charges, sending the BOL to Nigeria and clearing in Lagos as well as all other charges..... if we specify that clearing is extra, that means clearing cost is not inclusive.

We once again appreciate your time on this thread and your business...... While we awaits those that are yet to believe in Pre-Order or our business to join the crowd of good things happening.

We are not the best, but we know we could be better with your advice and criticism . . . There is no Fhemmmy Motos without you and your business.

I have also been seeing and noticing this Lexus craze. Is it that the car is that good or is it that it is cheap?. That was how the craze over Opel (aka poor man benz) started.

Qc1: ^^^

Yo doug! you ain't even know jack 'bout me son! Hey...B., don't be coming out here n' be calling nobody "typical" aiight ?

Word !!! [b]Wuz up with 'em young bloodz these dayz? [/b]Opinion is cool though but don't be dissing nobody buddy!

Having said that.....I fell your beef! It's all cool.

yo men. who told you iam a young blood?. You can now see that you are behaving like the 'typical' Nigerian of just assuming.

We have a saying in my place that goes 'wetin concern vulture with plaiting of hair'. So nothing concern me. It is your money, your project and your house. you are free to spend it the way you like and you are also free to 'reject any condemnation in Jesus name. Amen'.

Jamesqu: Chineke God of Umuahaia!

No be to find solution we all dey here for...okay siddon look then.

Anyway, I will take a pix of the said solution when I'm in Lagos later in the year and post it for all to see...I know its tough, but just reserve some cash. The Lord will see you through it.

Sometimes, we keep on praying when the Lord has answered our prayer through other people's experiences...

Why are you bothering yourself to shout 'Chineke God of Umuahaia!'?. This is the typical mentality of most Nigerians. Iam sure that when Brabus told him the same thing, he must have also said that he rejected it in Jesus name and iam sure he even called his Pastor to come and bind and cast out all evils from what will make the fence to fall down. Na the fence keeps falling down and he keeps patching it and he is even not ready to learn from the experience of another.

mufutau55: Sorry about that... Lateness due to Time differential... I hate that Spambot guy sometimes, sometimes it has no reason for the ban.

Hajji M.

If the spambot is not there, how will you guys know that the Software Developer is working?. The Software Developer needs to make you guys remember him/her now.

spyder880: I will not mind a copy of that machine as a surprise gift for madam at Xmas, Chai! Man need to increase the hustling

Na so i dey my own jeje dey hustle to finish my project before xmas so that i can relax. That is how some busy bodies started harassing me that if i have to open the house during xmas, i must not come home and use my present 'tuke tuke' to open the house but must come home with a machine. Fear dey catch me now to complete the project before xmas as i do not have money for a machine. E be like say i go take style delay the completion so that i can at least go home during xmas with the 'tuke tuke'.