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atasteve:
Oga sir, please did you take any pix of this wonder edifice

@atasteve. It is not an edifice o. I just took the pictures of the tiles in the sitting room and bathroom. I will check my camera when i get home and post them tommorow. I took the pictures because i wanted to use them to search for such in Nigeria. What i learnt from the Manager is that the tiles are locally produced in Nigeria.

caseymoney:
^^^kikeige, that's lot of space to cover. I will suggest porcelain tiles for the high traffic areas and ceramics for less traffic area. Porcelain tiles are more rugged making them ideal for harsher applications such as flooring. Also, because of their higher density, porcelain tiles are less likely to absorb moisture (0.5%) which makes them more durable and more resistant to staining. See attached pictures.

Check your email for more details.

@caseymoney at al. Thanks for the education on tiles. On my recent trip to India, i happened to stay in an apartment and was trilled by the quality of the tiles used in the sitting room, kitchen and bathroom to the extent that i had to ask the Manager the name of the tiles and he said that they are Vertified tiles. Is there any difference between Vitrified tiles and Porcelain and Ceramics tiles. In addition, is Vetrified tiles sold in Nigeria.

To all the Tile gurus in the house:

I have noticed that the tiling in the bathroom and kitchen here were done to the roof. Where iam presently staying, the bathroom and kitchen tiling was not done to the roof. After completing the roofing of my house, i intend to move to tiling. So what is the norm?. Is the bathroom and kitchen supposed to be tiled halfway or tiled to the roof. Please give reasons.

Btw, @Am Alone, i have fallen in love with that your black tile. Might consider it for my sitting room and master bedroom.

Am Alone:
@ Spyder - lol!!!!!
No wahala!!!!

@kikeige
Thanks mehn. . . .
I will send pictures to you asap.
Also, i want to get a better camera so that I can take
the picture exactly as they are. I will send you pictures of the tiles.

From Monday I will send start the floor tiles. Presently I'm stilll on the wall tiles.

Thanks man!!!

You better stop using this camera phone before i fine you one goat. . Oya, quick match and go and buy a good digital camera and blow our minds. This colour of your roof dey make me wan change mind from bush green but Madam no wan hear of any other colour after i showed her the bush green used by @Spyder to roof the 4-bedroom bungalow.

NextHome:
There's more to doing your German floor now other than pounding yam, walking or crawling on it. The first is to contain moisture from coming through the concrete slab and the second is to support the foundation.

Usually, there may be pressure to move on with the project immediately after the filling stage so as to avoid delays and possible additional costs. But this can have adverse effect on your building as soil can become very heavy and exert extreme force on the foundation walls when it is wet and left for too long.

How?
Block or brick foundation walls are pushed outward due to pressure from the filling sand as it expands due to plasticity nature of the soil. The soil will swell when it gets wet, and it will shrink when it dries. This swelling and shrinking will WORK the weight of the structure down into the ground. Over time, the foundation will remain more settled than it has risen, leaving you with an unlevelled house.

If you can maintain the moisture of the soil under the foundation at a constant level, there will be no swelling and shrinking, but this is only possible if you can take pain to do the german floor now. Although, it is not compulsory.

Think of how easy it is to knock off stack of blocks without weight on top,


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For me, I'll complete one stage before moving to the others.

Gbam. Well said. A building project is a stage by stage process.

@Ogbefi_007. If you want to do decking before doing german floor, i hope you will not also say you want to do the german floor after wood work or roofing. Abeg, do german floor first before decking or any other stage.

spyder880:
^^^ Okay NL1960, you have heard from Am Alone, the .55 is thicker than the .45, of course the price is more. You can use the .55 to keep your mind at rest, in my own house it is settled that its going to be the .45 that will be used. Not only for economic reasons but I know that unless my kids start playing hockey on top of the roof, there is not supposed to be any leakages. For my clients that will ask for .55, I will use it for them as well as other specifications and special orders they will make.

Am Alone:
I think spyder said it all.

Just to had a little to it.
If you are using step tiles, I learnt the best gauge of aluminium to use is 0.55mm

but for normal aluminium roof, you can use any gauge(evn 0.3 can work it the building is kind o high)

So i learnt o

I think i have settled for 0.45mm bush green step tiles. Apart from economic reasons, i do not expect my kids or anybody to be playing table tennis on top of the roof. Na only birds go dey petch on top and any day a bird petches and leaves a gaping hole, then that bird is an 'Airforce Bird' that is carrying a caterpillar on its feet and i will use Holy Ghost fire to bind and cast it. .

spyder880:
^^ @NL1960, why are you saying either .45 or .55, have you not made up your mind yet on the type to use? Nice house sha.

Pocket is making the decision difficult. Am Alone's .55mm is nice. So also the .45mm that you used in the 4-bedroom bungalow that you roofed. So just wondering if i can use .45mm and use the savings between it and .55mm to do other things. What do you think?. Is there really an advantage of .55mm over .45mm?. This retirement home is in the village. So i do not expect much wear and tear from usage.

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@Am Alone. Special apologies for crashing into your thread.

Villa house after wood work. Strcuture waiting for either .45mm or .55mm Bush Green step tiles aluminum sheet.

resortprop:
A decent 3 nos Miniflat in a good environment facing the Ikorodu Road is available for rent.

Description: Mini Flats (1 Bedroom)

Rent: 250k per annum lease of 3 years are cheaper

1 toilets and 1 baths

For inspection call Sunday on 070 5159 0841 email: sundayrima@gmail.com

When you said 'muslims Tenant preferred', is it Nigerian or Iraq or Iran or Indonesian etc muslim and if it is Nigerian Muslim, is it Northern or Southern muslim?. Let me know ASAP so that i can ask further questions if need be.

Ewapupa:
House J about 33,000

Where is this House J located?. Also, is the price per night or per hour?.

NextHome:
@NL1960, where are you buying from? Lagos or where?

The cost of your roofing sheet per sqm is almost 1.5 more than the price I got it in Lagos. And my ridges, flashing are special made - not like the ones you see around.

1050 per sqm. Make una no tell anybody o!

NextHome:
Quoted Price from the company supplied my roofing sheets.

0.35 (N770 - N800)
0.45 (N950)
0.55 (N1,050)

My installer charges N5k per day and he's from ____City (the company that roof Shoprite). The company that supplies the materials is opposite Mangoro Bus Stop, Lagos.

Iam buying from Benin. The Aluminum company is a popular aluminum company in Benin. The mail i sent was gotten from their website and they responded with that price.

It is surprising that there is a wide gap in the prices. Is yours step tiles and does the company produce in Lagos. I do not know if there is a difference between oven baked and non-oven baked.

@spyder880 and @NextHome. Thanks. The man that gave the about 872k quote has 13k for accessories. I sent a mail to the aluminum company. The price of N1,646 given by them is close to what the Alumimum company gave me. This is what the Alumimum company said 'Our price for 0.55 HBG (Holy Bush Green) Step Tiles is N1,643 less 11% discount +5%VAT= N1535.3835'. Iam still waiting for the two more quotes in order to conclude.

Abeg, make una help me answer this question which i have also posted in 'https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-689147.448.html'

@spyder880 et al. Sorry for bringing this thread back to life. Was inspired to use bush green step tiles aluminum roofing sheets for my villa duplex. I got a quote of N1,098,148 broken down as follows:

(1) step tiles: 398m @N1,646 = N655,108
(2) cladding sheets: 40 @N1,646 = N64,840
(3) ceiling sheets: 50 @N1,470 = N74,000
(4) Falshings (various items) 90m @N1,480 = N133,200
(5) accessories = N30,000
(6) transport= N40,000
(7) installation = N100,000
Total = N1,098,148

I got another quote of about N872,000. This quote has labour as N75,000. The curious thing is this person gave step tiles as 326m. One more quote of N1,122,000 has step tiles 400m.

Iam trying to get 2 more quotes because of the disparity in the step tiles.

What do you guys think. Abeg, make una help me out as time is not on my side.

@spyder880 et al. Sorry for bringing this thread back to life. Was inspired to use bush green step tiles aluminum roofing sheets for my villa duplex. I got a quote of N1,098,148 broken down as follows:

(1) step tiles: 398m @N1,646 = N655,108
(2) cladding sheets: 40 @N1,646 = N64,840
(3) ceiling sheets: 50 @N1,470 = N74,000
(4) Falshings (various items) 90m @N1,480 = N133,200
(5) accessories = N30,000
(6) transport= N40,000
(7) installation = N100,000
Total = N1,098,148

I got another quote of about N872,000. This quote has labour as N75,000. The curious thing is this person gave step tiles as 326m. One more quote of N1,122,000 has step tiles 400m.

Iam trying to get 2 more quotes because of the disparity in the step tiles.

What do you guys think. Abeg, make una help me out as time is not on my side.

@Ijogz K and @Osila2. Why are you guys wasting your time with Folex?. He said that he is not desperate and that he is doing somebody a favour. As for me, i have decided to watch and wait until the rent expires and if he refuses to remove his now tokuboh items, the landlord will throw them out and then i will rent the place. In a football club, if a player's contract remains one year and he refuses to sign a now one or the club refuses to let him leave, the club will end up loosing him for nothing at the end of the year. Any day those items stay in the apartment, their value diminishes.

Fhemmmy:
Reporting for lecture today

Prof. is on sabatical leave till next week. So therefore, i will advise that you take the rest of the week off to revise what you have been taught because when Prof. comes back, he will likely give an impromtu test.

spyder880:
^^^ cant see which passage as am browsing with phone, but will see which and respond later.

@spyder880. It is the passage on image 'dup14.jpg'.

atasteve:
@NL1960, I guess that the space should be like 4ft which is wide enough.

Lord Spyder880 will be able to shield more light.

Ok. Mine was 4ft and after it was done, i was now thinking that it was narrow.

spyder880:
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@spyder880. What is the width of this passage?. It looks narrow.

@vitodorado: You have not answered my own question oooooooooooo.


@Ogbefi_007: My brother got the one he used for mine at Iyuku or Okpella or so. He went straight to the quarry. It is cheaper at the quarry and you are sure of what you are getting. He bought a trailer load. I do not know the tonnage for a trailer load.

@vitodorado. Love the step tile aluminum roof used for the duplex. I hope the colour is bush green because it is step tile bush green i want to use for my own duplex in the villa. Since I showed Madam the one used by Spyder880 when he showcased the roofing of a bungalow, she does not want to hear of any other colour again. I will like to blow her mind further by showing her this one.

Do you have a showroom in Lagos that somebody can come and view samples and pictures?.

@spyder880 :

'This wooden step is usually made before a deck is poured, it will be used by labor boys to carry concrete to the top of the deck. No problems with this wooden method, but I prefer the concrete steps instead, that's what I do in my sites.'

If you concrete steps instead, what happens after the decking has been poured, do you then dismantle the concrete step or you leave it as an addition to the house?. To me, since it is just for pouring concrete during one or two days of decking work, a temporary wooden step is preferable. A wooden step is easier to tear down.

spyder880:
This is the step that got me fuming with the architect who was also on site when I came, how can you build a 3ft tunnel as a stairway and expect a whole family to be using this 'trap' as the only stairway up and down this beautiful house?

Looking at this picture, is this step one straight and continuous step or is there another one that takes you to the top of the building?. If it is one straight and continuous step, i wonder how people will climb it without getting tired.

Also send to me thru 'migiets@yahoo.com'.

@spyder880: "My people, lets forget all these arguments and get back to the learning road. Our going round and round with these points will not help us.
(One quick question) why is it so hard for our young workmen to learn perfect finishing skills? Why is it the Ghananian, Togolese and other outside workers that are skilled enough to finish houses, what is happening to our young workmen and women?"

Good question. I have been wondering myself and iam yet to know why but i want to guess. I do not think that our young workmen do not have the perfect finishing skills. I believe it boils down to impatience. Every young man wants to quickly make it and so when they are given a job, most of them spend the money on frivolous things (latest handset, several handsets) when the work has not yet started or finished and by the time the job is started, there is no more money to complete the work or do a perfect job, hence the poor job or poor finishing. I used to have a carpenter who was always doing good small small jobs for me. I gave him a job to do a bed for me and also recommended him to a family friend. It took him after six months to deliver the bed and this is after i threatened to arrest him with police and when he delivered it, it was terrible. The bed was more like a 4*4 instead of 6*4. He did not even deliver the job of the family friend and the lady had to look for somebody else to do it. I had wanted him to do the bed before giving him a set of settee to do. I was just passing one day when i saw a beautiful set of settee done by a carpenter and i engaged the guy and he deliver a good and perfect job within a week. My Neighbor saw it and also gave him a bigger job that was paid for by his company. After some years, i decided to change the leather on this same set of settee and engaged the same guy again paying him in full. To my horror, the job now took him 3 weeks and was always coming up with excuses. A month after the job was done, the leather has started to tear. The guy used inferior materials and the job was poorly done. I just could not understand. I have seen several cases. This complaints is not restricted to me. I have asked several of my friends and it is the same complaints. What really is the problem?. Is it the pressure of the society or what?.

Is it the entire roofing (wood work and roofing sheets) that is going to start next week or just the wood work. What type of roofing sheet and colour are you going to use?.

Sometimes in life, i little fuel is needed in an endless argument. The back and forth arguments were getting too much. Iam sure it was the little fuel poured into it that made Ahanohai to go the extra mile to do and post a video recording. That eventually ended the arguments and counter accusations and the behind-the-scene settlement that followed.

@spyder880. Well done for a good job. Love this last picture. The beauty of the building is already coming out. No wonder the owner brought out shakis for merriment. Btw, you mean say you guys shack everything without remaining any for us that has been praying for you to have a good weather for this decking work?.


@Fhemmmy. Iam sure spyder880 will not mind if you send that concrete machine FOC to him from obodo oyibo.

@Nexthome/Brabus: The last promise you made was that this job will be completed by last Friday. Today is Sunday. So, how far?.

@Ahanohai: Have you collected your keys?.

I learnt from the person handling mine that for the purpose of precaution, it is better to have a carpenter and iron bender on standby on the day the deck is being poured so that if case there are issues to be corrected, they will quickly correct them.

The wood seller is right. My elder brother is a logger. He is quite busy during the dry season because that is the time that it is easy to get access into the forest to get good wood and easily bring out. If it rains, the trucks might not find it easy to get into the forest and those that venture will charge high and if they sink while coming out, that is an additional cost. He is presently getting me the wood for the roofing of my house. In addition, once such woods are used for the wood work, the sun can easily conditioned them and make them stronger. This are all what he told me and he has been in the business for quite a while. Just imagine a logger going to look for an Iroko tree during the rainy season. U will need to pay so much to get it because Iroko trees do not grow by the roadside.