Oflaylay:
Please who have an idea of how bricklayers charge for plastering parapet? Please someone should help with this. Thanks

EgunMogaji2:


I hate those with a passion.

uncleteeh:

Why?
It makes sense.

UC92:

70-100k is a good bargain.

Oflaylay:
for real? I was thinking it should not be more than 25k.

africaflozy:


So how do I go about it, please.

true2home:
That will be great for my Ministry. Lol

Oflaylay:
for real? I was thinking it should not be more than 25k.

UC92:

Your building has a perimeter of 69metres, that's an average of 17.25metres on each side which isn't a small one.
Even if the build is a bungalow, 25k can't render your fascia.

BiigTee:
What do u think is a good estimate for plastering a whole duplex? Workmanship wise!

africaflozy:
Good evening sirs.
Please, do they pack tiles per square meter?

Oflaylay:
Please my good people, who has an idea of how much they charge for plastering parapet. The parapet size is about 69 meters. I will appreciate your response. Abeg someone should help. Thanks

BrabusNG:
Baba Kopell, this might interest you about Lagos - Calabar coastal road.

You can read more on blackerboardbuild.weebly.com

kopell:
Wow thanks brother. I thought they said it will starts from Lekki around Monastery Rd by Novare shoprite mall along the coastline. There are a lot of land in that area close to OBJ farm going east towards Ogomb during my search. I’m told all those area are reserve for costal alignment for the Lagos Calabar railway project. Do they change their plan? This people don’t have any meaningful plans for future.

uncleteeh:

Concerning the issues of corner cutting. We are living in a corruption invested society, therefore, there is room for such.
My advice to everyone handling a building project is to do such project excellently, it should be done the way it must be done.
Building construction is different from other professions.
A building harbours all and sundry, it is one of the basic needs of man. Let's do our building projects properly.
It is not because of today ooooo, it's for the sake of tomorrow.

QSFemi:
Engage a Quantity Surveyor for your project today and you'll be glad you did.

To prospective homeowners, the value Quantity Surveyors can bring to your projects cannot be overemphasized. In fact, research has shown that engaging Quantity Surveyors on your project can lead to 25% reduction in the overall cost of construction.

Most clients do not have the knowledge or experience to determine the cost of construction of their planned building and majority of them rely solely on the estimate of the builder or contractor to arrive at a cost for which the project will be executed. This is a very big gamble to the clients who do not have the requisite knowledge and competence to assess the adequacy and fairness of the builder's or contractor's estimate as regards the proposed project. In most cases, the clients may ask for reduction of the estimate or discount without any informed basis of doing such. Quantity Surveyors are specially trained in this regard. Do not gamble with your hard earned money, engage the right person - a quantity surveyor, to advise you on everything relating to cost of every item, scope, change orders, variations, fluctuations and consequently, overall cost of the construction. As a client, you will be happier, more satisfied and more fulfilled knowing fully that you've achieved value for your money.

In synopsis, Quantity Surveyors can do the following for you as a client:

1) Estimate the construction cost of the project before commencing work on site. This will form a scientific budget to you, on the basis of which you can assess your financial preparedness for the project (Read Luke 14:28). This is very important.

2) Oversee the successful bid selection process in a very competitive and transparent fashion. In other words, a Quantity Surveyor will help you award the project to the contractor or builder that has the best quote or estimate after considering the submissions or quotes of 3 or more contractors or builders to get the most responsive. The importance of this cannot be overemphasized given that some unscrupulous contractors can deliberately lower their quote in order to win a contract and subsequently coming for more more on flimsy bases.

3) Establish the quantity of materials needed for every item in the construction process. This is useful to clients that want to buy their materials themselves. Thus will be helpful in ordering materials thereby minimizing wastes and shortages.

4) Establish the cost of labour. As a client, how do you negotiate cost of workmanship on site? Quantity Surveyors can help you.

5) Advise on preliminary cost of the project.

There are many more valuable roles quantity surveyors can offer on a project. However, let's draw the curtain here for now.

Engage and Quantity Surveyor and you will be glad you did.

Cheers.

By the way, I'm a professional Quantity Surveyor with many satisfied clients here on this thread.

n3xt:
Just in: https://punchng.com/five-year-old-boy-die-in-lagos-building-collapse-lasema/

We are already in the season so it's no longer a surprise.

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I guess the age of the building should take the blame right now.

n3xt:
Got an offline msg that I should shed more light on subsoil investigation and the importance.

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We’ve actually done this many times here but I’d share something from the Test we carried out in 2011.

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No matter the size of your house, it is highly advisable to investigate the compaction characteristics of the soil you want to build on as this will tell you if the soil is a satisfactory foundation material.

Soil test is not just a means of enriching engineers/builders/town planners but a scientific way of confirming the suitability of soil for a proposed development.

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A soil might be satisfactory for one type of construction but might require special treatment for other building. The test will confirm the suitability of soils for foundation based on strength, cohesion and consolidation characteristics of the soil.

QSFemi:
Yes. Tiles are packed and measured in square metres boldly written on the carton.

For instance, 600mm x 600mm vitrified floor tiles, has 4 PCs in a carton. That means a carton is 1.44sqm. This goes for other types of tiles. I always advise my clients to buy their tiles per carton rather than per square metres. Lots of unscrupulous sellers can cheat the buyer if you're not conversant with measurements.

UC92:

Assuming,
The building measures about 15*18m.
Rough render for kitchen and toilet walls.
Soffit of suspended slab for kitchen, toilets and rooms on the ground floor to be rendered.
No soffit render for lobby, Anteroom, porch,dining etc. As Pop ceiling will be used there
#450- 500k will be enough for the labour.
Concrete Fascia inclusive.

Larwin:


Most people would ve completed building, neglecting the bearing capacity of the soil before carrying out geo-technics. They do this for cover ups, maybe for approval purposes or its on demand.

Some engineers don't even open up fully to the geologist/ geotechnical engineers on the scope of the building, a bid to reduce cost for the investigation and this will definitely reduce the scope of work to be carried out.

These are major issues in Lagos which every builders need to look into in other to reduce settlement or collapse.