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PropertiesRe: The Real Cost Of Building A 6 Bedroom Duplex (reloaded) by NL1960: 10:21am On Apr 05, 2013
spyder880: If you cover all the wall surfaces on the ground floor front, all the spaces from window till door sides till the edges, it will still look good.

One advice, make sure to buy all the frontal tiles at once before you start. This one you see in my frontage is finished in the market and I am buying another closely related type to complete the top, but we all know that June and July are not the same thinggrin dont let this happen to you.
Oga Spyder, Thanks. I do not understand the bolded. I have actually broken my measurements into 'long', 'medium' and 'short' and they are all 'top to bottom'. 'Long' is 'from edge to edge'. Medium is 'from beginning of window to end of window' while 'short' is 'without the window i.e. the space between the windows'. Cost of buying the tiles is the reason while i broke it down this way. I forgot to add that i intend to also cover the gabble.

I normally buy all the tiles i need at once. Iam yet to start tiling. I have already bought all that is needed for floor, wall and staircase. I want to buy the frontal ones before i start the entire tiling so that once i start, there is no stopping until it is completed. In my calculation on what to buy, i do not subtract windows and doors and i also still add on top to cater for breakages.
PropertiesRe: The Real Cost Of Building A 6 Bedroom Duplex (reloaded) by NL1960: 6:44pm On Apr 04, 2013
spyder880: Thank you sir, the rest of the front.
Spyder and all others: I want to buy frontal tiles and i will need some inputs from you guys how to use them in the attached pictures to make the building to be fine. Iam planning to cover the entire wall of the top (i.e from the edge of the wall to the door) while covering just from one edge of the window to the other edge of the window for the down part. iam also thinking of this same approach for the second picture which is actually the front of the house.

Please, what do you guys think.

PropertiesRe: Construction Process Of A Wing Duplex+flat At Ajah by NL1960: 10:25am On Mar 28, 2013
NL1960: Ok. Where in Lagos can i get them to buy.
segcy.moor:
pls send to my mail
NL1960: Have sent you a mail.
Still waiting for response after sending the mail and a reminder to the email address found on your profile.
PropertiesRe: Construction Process Of A Wing Duplex+flat At Ajah by NL1960: 10:27am On Mar 26, 2013
segcy.moor:
pls send to my mail
Have sent you a mail.
PropertiesRe: Construction Process Of A Wing Duplex+flat At Ajah by NL1960: 11:02am On Mar 25, 2013
segcy.moor:
expert does
Ok. Where in Lagos can i get them to buy.
PropertiesRe: Construction Process Of A Wing Duplex+flat At Ajah by NL1960: 3:49pm On Mar 24, 2013
segcy.moor:
Stainless rails..
Nice stainless rails on the staircase. Please, if you got them in Lagos, where is that?. In addition, who normally installs the staircase rails?. Is it the tiler, bricklayer or an expert.
PropertiesRe: Construction Process Of A Wing Duplex+flat At Ajah by NL1960: 6:50pm On Mar 20, 2013
segcy.moor:
wait and see!
Ok. Waiting patiently with itchy eyes. Also do not forget to include where it can be bought from.
PropertiesRe: Construction Process Of A Wing Duplex+flat At Ajah by NL1960: 10:09am On Mar 20, 2013
segcy.moor:
...finishing work
I guess the drilling of hole being done here is to install staircase hand railings. I have also seen some stainless railings here. If it is stainless hand railings that you want to use on this staircase, please can you post the completed work and also post where you got them from and at what price. Thanks in advance.

PropertiesRe: Construction Process Of A Wing Duplex+flat At Ajah by NL1960: 10:28am On Mar 15, 2013
segcy.moor:
@NL1960...May be u will send the stair design
Thanks. I have sorted out the issue. I was able to get a tile seller who link me with a tiler and he explained the process to me. What he explained tallied with what i was able to read on the internet.
PropertiesRe: Construction Process Of A Wing Duplex+flat At Ajah by NL1960: 10:47am On Mar 13, 2013
segcy.moor:
The tiles for staircase may be calculated by tiler. Yes u may use any tiles for stair depend on ur pocket. However,dis particular step being special one deserve nothing but marble or granite
Thanks for the response but iam yet to engage a tiler. Iam presently buying the tiles after which i will engage a tiler for the job. It was easy for me to calculate the number of tiles for floor and wall but staircase is neither a floor nor a wall. Since you are already using a tiler for this your project, you can find out for me from him.
PropertiesRe: Construction Process Of A Wing Duplex+flat At Ajah by NL1960: 6:05pm On Mar 12, 2013
segcy.moor:
step finishing with marble
Please, how does somebody calculate or know the number of tiles to use for staircase. In addition, is it possible to use any type of tile for staircase.
CultureRe: People Build Better Houses In The Village: Why? by NL1960: 2:18pm On Mar 11, 2013
POLICE CAP: I've observed that most persons prefer to build well furnished mansions in their villages which latter begins to look like an abandoned project because you only find people in them during festive periods. And the funny thing here is that most of these persons live in rented apartment in the city (where they spend most of their time)

In my own opinion, I would suggest they build just a simple house with simple furnishing in the village.... Then own even if its a hut to call their own in the city.

I stil wish for reasons why they do this.....
There are some people that leave their houses in Lagos everyday for office by 4am and do not get back home till about 10pm. So, using this your logic, it means that since they spend most of their time in the office, they should buy a big bed and be sleeping in the office and then sleep on a small bed at home.

Anyway, nobody that visits the village will want to go there and go and lodge in a hotel or sleep in his grand father's mud house with his family while enjoying a duplex in the city. East or West, home is the best.
PropertiesRe: Construction Process Of A Wing Duplex+flat At Ajah by NL1960: 10:33am On Mar 01, 2013
segcy.moor:
external wks
Please are these tiles seen here stone tiles?. If so, where in Lagos did you buy them from and for how much per Sq. meter.
PropertiesRe: Building My 3 Bedroom Bungalow (the Apocalypse) by NL1960: 10:31am On Mar 01, 2013
Muyesky: i thought i should add small beauty to the front of the house so i went ahead to get this stone tiles at the rate of #2300 per sq. meter and to my own taste, i think the tiler tried sha! what does the honorable house thinks? smiley smiley smiley
Please where did you buy this stone tiles?.
PropertiesRe: Building A 5 Bedroom Duplex In Ebonyi State by NL1960: 9:54am On Jan 29, 2013
spyder880: My brother Warri far ogrin
The condition of Enugu-Onitsha express way will make it difficult for me to shuttle between Enugu-Anambra-Delta-Ebonyi and produce good results. I would really want to do more in the near future.

We have so much new projects planned to start this year around Enugu state. We are very committed to step up our game towards satisfying you my friends. We plan to grow bigger and get better, we plan to explore all the options and give you guys the varieties that will make your house a colorful experience.

Although I caught your attention with serious cost cutting techniques during my first online outing to build my own house, I have come to realize that not all clients like my 'cheap' way of doing things. I am always communicating with many potential clients and from the feedback I get, people will love to see me depart from building 'cheap' to moving my priority to building 'comfort'cheesy . I had a visitor in my house today, in the duplex you all know here online. The prospective client loved the house but hated the finish. He instructed me to finish his own with better roofing, doors, windows and tiles. Well, I just wanted to complete some good space for my kids, nothing too luxurious.

We are still ready to serve, we are still anxious to take on more jobs if its in our reach and the price is right. We cannot agree to start a job this 2013 if the job will make us 'manage' resources to the extent of looking 'cheap'.

PERFECTION IS OUR GOAL, EXCELLENCE WILL BE TOLORATED.grin
This is not a problem. I do not think you should completely abandoned your ways. If somebody says he/she is big, give such a person a big service. If somebody says that he/she is not big and what the person has is within what you can accommodate, then you also go ahead. My Doctor (he is about 15 years older than me) who is a politician took me to where he bought his tiles. I had to run away when i saw the prices. I told him that levels pass levels. I saw wall tiles (Spanish) that were going for as much 5k per/M. People come into this tiles company to buy as much as N3million worth of tiles for a duplex. Soup that is sweet, it is money. If a client says that he wants you to go to Dubai and buy all his finishing, you go or you buy and courier them to Nigeria.
PropertiesRe: Building A 5 Bedroom Duplex In Ebonyi State by NL1960: 9:29am On Jan 29, 2013
spyder880: The frontal tiles, for exterior use mainly....
Spyder880, do you have an idea of the price range for these frontal tiles.
PropertiesRe: Building A 5 Bedroom Duplex In Ebonyi State by NL1960: 9:28am On Jan 29, 2013
spyder880: Frontal crack tiles, e dey grin
PropertiesRe: The Real Cost Of Building A 6 Bedroom Duplex (reloaded) by NL1960: 6:09pm On Jan 17, 2013
OilSubsidy: God! I have learnt a great deal from all of your threads o!! thanks a lot Prof. One day i hope to relocate to Naija and do something along your line of business. Hopefully build and sell. Make Baba GOD answer my prayers. This overseas don tire me no be small. sad
See this oga. So, u dey abroad dey enjoy and also dey collect/enjoy oil subsidy from naija. You too much. grin.
PropertiesRe: The Real Cost Of Building A 6 Bedroom Duplex (reloaded) by NL1960: 2:49pm On Jan 17, 2013
OilSubsidy: This your compound big o. A lot of money will be chopped on interlocking stones
Na retirement house for villa. So na just few interlocking stones with a lot of trees that will be put. my brother's bungalow is also within the space/compound.
PropertiesRe: The Real Cost Of Building A 6 Bedroom Duplex (reloaded) by NL1960: 2:46pm On Jan 17, 2013
spyder880: Look this guy o, your house don fine finish grin
Just basically internal finishing to do. I intend to put some frontal tiles in some part in the front (up and down). Make i just relax for now since i have all the internal tiles (floor and wall) already bought and ready for laying.
PropertiesRe: The Real Cost Of Building A 6 Bedroom Duplex (reloaded) by NL1960: 12:24pm On Jan 17, 2013
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PropertiesRe: The Real Cost Of Building A 6 Bedroom Duplex (reloaded) by NL1960: 12:22pm On Jan 17, 2013
spyder880: I did not know finishing a house is this costly, some samples of the lights fitted in the upper bedrooms
Quite true. Make i share this your site small to post an update of my project as at December 2012. Just waiting for funds to embark on more finishing.

PropertiesRe: From Paper To Brick: A Journal Of Construction Activities by NL1960: 6:22pm On Jan 08, 2013
brabus: These tiles are everywhere in Lagos and their prices varied a lot.

I got the ceramic tiles in picture below from a friend who import tiles in Ajah area.

It's called Country Clay and the Dimension is 8" x 25". I got it around N2,700 per sqm. I'll confirm the prices now cos that's a long time.
Thanks.
PropertiesRe: From Paper To Brick: A Journal Of Construction Activities by NL1960: 6:18am On Jan 08, 2013
Brabus, still expecting a response to my question below.


NL1960: Oga Brabus. Good job. Cannot wait to see the finishing of this house. Those guys are Magictouchstudos are wizards in designs.

Please do you know where i can buy frontal tiles (those designed tiles used in the front of buildings) in Lagos and the price it goes for.
PropertiesRe: From Paper To Brick: A Journal Of Construction Activities by NL1960: 11:34am On Jan 07, 2013
Oga Brabus. Good job. Cannot wait to see the finishing of this house. Those guys are Magictouchstudos are wizards in designs.

Please do you know where i can buy frontal tiles (those designed tiles used in the front of buildings) in Lagos and the price it goes for.
PropertiesRe: Current Prices Of Building Materials In Nigeria by NL1960: 4:01pm On Jan 04, 2013
Does anybody know where i can buy frontal tiles (those design tiles normally used in front of a building) in Lagos and the price it goes for.
FamilyRe: The Challenges Of Being The 1st Child by NL1960: 1:32pm On Dec 10, 2012
Smile4mee01: Salute to my nairalanders.

I am quite down on moralle today and that is because I am the 1st child and son in a family of 4 and I must say that resposibilities aTtached to my position is overwhelming me. My dad is late and my mum is just managing. I work as an engineer and for the 2 yrs I have worked I have nothing to show for it, no savings no investment, no girlfriend sef. All of my income has been used to attend to this or that, I am 28 yrs now and I wonder if my dreams of being successful wld someday come true, or. Should I give up on my puruit for happiness.the bad thing is that my thought are beginning to affect my relationship with my mum and sibblings. Sometimes I just want to run away, bur again some friend told me to face my fears. When wld I begin to live for myself, the tought of marriage is far from me though I wld love to marry someday, infact I don taya. Kindly advice.
You don taya abi?. You are not serious. Face up to the responsibilities. Somebody must always carry the responsibilities of a family. Iam the third child in my family and somehow like the bread winner. I have seven siblings (all girls) after me. I have been able to put five (5) of them through the higher institution. At a point in time, four (4) of them were in higher institutions. They have all finished. Some are married and working now. The only drawback which really is not a drawback is that i had to marry when i was now above 30 years instead of my earlier plans to marry at below 30. My putting them through the higher institution has created a record in my community as the family that has the highest number of female graduates in a family in my community. This joy cannot be quantified.
PropertiesRe: Building A 5 Bedroom Duplex In Ebonyi State by NL1960: 10:03am On Nov 30, 2012
Demain_man: You also do same for wall. Height x Floor Length = Area for that side. Do same for all sides and total all areas to get your wall area. I belief you can get that info on youtube even with drawings for better clarity. Rgds
Davedavy: Measure the height of the wall,multiply it by the length of the wall,that is the area of that particular wall.Hope u get it.
Please, one last question for the gurus. I have a store in my project. Is it compulsory to cover the walls of the store with tiles?.
PropertiesRe: Building A 5 Bedroom Duplex In Ebonyi State by NL1960: 6:36pm On Nov 29, 2012
Davedavy: Measure the height of the wall,multiply it by the length of the wall,that is the area of that particular wall.Hope u get it.
Yes oooooooo. I get it. Thanks. Una too much for this properties section.
PropertiesRe: Building A 5 Bedroom Duplex In Ebonyi State by NL1960: 4:42pm On Nov 29, 2012
Demain_man: You also do same for wall. Height x Floor Length = Area for that side. Do same for all sides and total all areas to get your wall area. I belief you can get that info on youtube even with drawings for better clarity. Rgds
@Demain_man,

Thanks. Just to get it very clearly so that i do not make any mistake. There are four walls in a bathroom. Let us use number 1,2,3,4 to denote them. It means that the total area to cover is (H1*FL1 + H2*FL2 + H3*FL3 + H4*FL4) where H = Height and FL = Floor Length. Is this what you mean?.
PropertiesRe: Building A 5 Bedroom Duplex In Ebonyi State by NL1960: 9:25am On Nov 29, 2012
@Spyder and other gurus.

A quick question on how to measure for tiles. Iam in the process of buying tiles for floors and wall (bathroom and kitchen). Iam somehow confused on how to measure what is needed for the walls since a wall has a height. For floors, what i did was just to get the length and width and multiply to get the Square meters or feet of the area to be covered.

For walls, what do i have to do considering that there is a height in a wall. I want to cover the walls from the bottom to the top.
PropertiesRe: The Real Cost Of Building A 6 Bedroom Duplex (reloaded) by NL1960: 11:04am On Nov 23, 2012
spyder880: My point is why he is costing pvc boards in sq mts instead of the normal bundles as they are sold, but maybe thats how they do it around there. The labour is not supposed to be above N30k, 45 clips? well....
Thanks for your response so far. Iam more confused by this response. I have sent you a mail.

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