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hello. Good evening guys
I got this decking quotation from my engineer.

How do you guys think I could cut cost pls

hello. Good evening guys
I got this decking quotation from my engineer.

How do you guys think I could cut cost pls
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Geekop:
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Lampert505:
hello. Good evening guys
I got this decking quotation from my engineer.

How do you guys think I could cut cost pls
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You left out two vital information as regards your question:

1. Location of Project.

2. Dimension of Slab.

Lampert505:
hello. Good evening guys
I got this decking quotation from my engineer.

How do you guys think I could cut cost pls
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Buy the materials by yourself, if possible

The prices he listed for rods, cements, etc, appear grossly over bloated.

Then negotiate the labour fees together, not individually

How can carpenter's fee alone be 800K, iron bender 470k, casting 500k Nawaoo.

thanks for your help and input.

The location of the project is ikola alagbado, close to command ipaja

It’s a 6 inches slab. 150mm/25

OkanlawonB:
You left out two vital information as regards your question:

1. Location of Project.

2. Dimension of Slab.

Lampert505:
thanks for your help and input.

The location of the project is ikola alagbado, close to command ipaja

It’s a 6 inches slab. 150mm/25

Dimensions of the Slab? Length and width

Xx

@Lampert505 Go on jiji to check prices of materials in your quote. Usually jiji sellers will also say price is negotiable so you will understand price is slightly lesser than what it is on jiji too. Send messages to sellers on jiji too to ask for price pretending you want to patronize them just to get price 😁then recheck your quote. You will realize how much you will save from quite given to you.

How do you guys think I could cut cost pls
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@Lampert505 after getting prices on jiji, get a pen and paper, modify prices in your quote. Turn the table around, give the quote to your engineer or whoever is buying materials and tell them this is what they should buy. They will try to still convince you by saying your own prices is wrong but don’t give in stand your ground. When the person buying for you gets to to where they want to buy, out of nowhere, ask to speak to the seller also and negotiate price yourself and make sure you pay into the sellers account. Don’t be weak or shy with people you are dealing with, they will reap you off and take advantage of you. Stand your ground. It’s your hard earned money.

@Free2Fly As in my brother, them wan finish the man. Ehhh God🙆‍♀️

Buy the materials by yourself, if possible

The prices he listed for rods, cements, etc, appear grossly over bloated.

Then negotiate the labour fees together, not individually

How can carpenter's fee alone be 800K, iron bender 470k, casting 500k Nawaoo.[/quote]

This will be very helpful, thanks for the insight
Appreciate you big time

floshady02:
@Lampert505 after getting prices on jiji, get a pen and paper, modify prices in your quote. Turn the table around, give the quote to your engineer or whoever is buying materials and tell them this is what they should buy. They will try to still convince you by saying your own prices is wrong but don’t give in stand your ground. When the person buying for you gets to to where they want to buy, out of nowhere, ask to speak to the seller also and negotiate price yourself and make sure you pay into the sellers account. Don’t be weak or shy with people you are dealing with, they will reap you off and take advantage of you. Stand your ground. It’s your hard earned money.

Lampert505:
hello. Good evening guys
I got this decking quotation from my engineer.

How do you guys think I could cut cost pls
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guy run oooo won Fe gba e ni oo.

All these prices are crazy price.

The price he gave u for Y10mm is actually for Y12mm

Go nd buy everything urself.

Don't buy everything because the quote is ovequoted

Inform the iron vendor of possible return of left over full length of iron

Monitor ur iron Rod oo

This ur artisan that gave u this is a rouge.

This slab is not too big with what am seeing here but the prices are outrageous

Lampert505:
hello. Good evening guys
I got this decking quotation from my engineer.

How do you guys think I could cut cost pls
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The only place you are allowed to cut cost is Labour, Do not lay with Decking.
Few short cuts
1,Deck the stairs 1st that way you do not have to build wooden step for them to climb.
2 Buy 2nd hand planks and bamboo ,Liaise with builders in the area so you can get cheap used ones.3.Contracts the Labour of decking out so the Engineer finds his own labour and tools, you only provide materials,.
Iron roads/Sand/Cement/Sand cannot be compromised.
NB, Go and research the price of Materials yourself, you might find them cheaper than the quoted price

Is it not the same usual (not TMT) Y12 rods I was told costs 9.5k yesterday that's quoted to be 14.8k here? I did a rough estimate of the cost difference on the required number of Y12 rods alone to be around 752k.
Bros, check well o!

Lampert505:
hello. Good evening guys
I got this decking quotation from my engineer.

How do you guys think I could cut cost pls
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Lampert505:
hello. Good evening guys
I got this decking quotation from my engineer.

How do you guys think I could cut cost pls

Gentle man; it’s being long I gave advise concerning this type of discussion here.
But let me tell you the truth.

The granite price @450k for 30 tns is very ok
The iron rod cost your Engr gave is VERY CORRECT provided he is buying original one like
REAL TIGER TMT .. the price in mkt now is 1.3 to 1.4mPer ton But if it’s ordinary local it’s far lesser

More so I can’t talk about the quantity needed bcs I don’t know the size of your building .
Furthermore he gave cost of carpenter together with Materils I.e bamboo, plank . 2*3 plank and the rest that is why the price is high, but you can price it to your budget
People should not assumed all prices are high without proper checking

Personally now I do asked my clients to buy materials themselves to reduced my stress unless if he or she says time can’t permit,then I will do the buying

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@Lampert505 for example I got a quote for swimming pool from an engineer. Total was over 13million. I went on jiji to check for prices of the materials in the quote and realized the prices quoted and given to me by the engineer was times 3 higher than the normal prices. And by the time I re-calculated prices I got on jiji, I realized constricting a swimming pool cost just almost 4million plus workmanship. And I was given over 13million. Imagine the amount of money I saved. If I wasn’t smart enough and didn’t have an idea about these things , dem got chop me a whopping 9million for free from me. Imagine how difficult it is to earn foreign currency and someone wants to take it all from you so easily. So shine your eyes.

floshady02:
@Lampert505 for example I got a quote for swimming pool from an engineer. Total was over 13million. I went on jiji to check for prices of the materials in the quote and realized the prices quoted and given to me by the engineer was times 3 higher than the normal prices. And by the time I re-calculated prices I got on jiji, I realized constricting a swimming pool cost just almost 4million plus workmanship. And I was given over 13million. Imagine the amount of money I saved. If I wasn’t smart enough and didn’t have an idea about these things , dem got chop me a whopping 9million for free from me. Imagine how difficult it is to earn foreign currency and someone wants to take it all from you so easily. So shine your eyes.

So have the swimming pool been constructed, in the process or completed?
If yes, please kindly upload pictures.
Thanks and God bless you richly.

@rotecch77 but that’s what they’ll say especially when owner is in diaspora. They will give prices for original Real Tiger TMT rod but buy local and eat the rest of the money. It’s always better for clients to have an idea of prices before asking anyone at all to go ahead and buy the materials for them or better still clients should buy themselves. Imagine how high the carpenter quote is a whole 800k ahhh 😱. And the rest. Dem don use billing finish the man. It’s not nice money is not easy to come by.
Gentle man; it’s being long I gave advice concerning this type of discussion here.
But let me tell you the truth.

The granite price @450k for 30 tns is very ok
The iron rod cost your Engr gave is VERY CORRECT provided he is buying original one like
REAL TIGER TMT .. the price in mkt now is 1.3 to 1.4mPer ton But if it’s ordinary local it’s far lesser

More so I can’t talk about the quantity needed bcs I don’t know the size of your building .
Furthermore he gave cost of carpenter together with Materils I.e bamboo, plank . 2*3 plank and the rest that is why the price is high, but you can price it to your budget
People should not assumed all prices are high without proper checking

Personally now I do asked my clients to buy materials themselves to reduced my stress unless if he or she says time can’t permit,then I will do the buying[/quote]

@bixton just tell them the shape you want, color of inside swimming pool tiles you want and fountain. Normally, the swimming pool will come with the square fountain built with blocks like the one in this picture included in the price but if you want the silver fountain in this picture it cost 300k.




So have the swimming pool been constructed, in the process or completed?
If yes, please kindly upload pictures.
Thanks and God bless you richly.[/quote]

@bixton na the silver fountain price be this 355k. Under water light 45k, swimming pool ladder between 80-120k there’s 2 or 3 or 4 steps ladder. Swimming pool filter 280k at most, they’ll dig, buy Rods, blocks, cement and so on and tiles etc… Dem go Dey make us dey feel say na one big deal to construct. Na who no know Dey gok am.

floshady02:
@bixton na the silver fountain price be this 355k. Under water light 45k, swimming pool ladder between 80-120k there’s 2 or 3 or 4 steps ladder. Swimming pool filter 280k at most, they’ll dig, buy Rods, blocks, cement and so on and tiles etc… Dem go Dey make us dey feel say na one big deal to construct. Na who no know Dey gok am.

That's very cool.

floshady02:
@rotecch77 but that’s what they’ll say especially when owner is in diaspora. They will give prices for original Real Tiger TMT rod but buy local and eat the rest of the money. It’s always better for clients to have an idea of prices before asking anyone at all to go ahead and buy the materials for them or better still clients should buy themselves. Imagine how high the carpenter quote is a whole 800k ahhh 😱. And the rest. Dem don use billing finish the man. It’s not nice money is not easy to come by.
Gentle man; it’s being long I gave advice concerning this type of discussion here.
But let me tell you the truth.

The granite price @450k for 30 tns is very ok
The iron rod cost your Engr gave is VERY CORRECT provided he is buying original one like
REAL TIGER TMT .. the price in mkt now is 1.3 to 1.4mPer ton But if it’s ordinary local it’s far lesser

More so I can’t talk about the quantity needed bcs I don’t know the size of your building .
Furthermore he gave cost of carpenter together with Materils I.e bamboo, plank . 2*3 plank and the rest that is why the price is high, but you can price it to your budget
People should not assumed all prices are high without proper checking

Personally now I do asked my clients to buy materials themselves to reduced my stress unless if he or she says time can’t permit,then I will do the buying

Rightly said; some artisans contractors , Engr’s are killer NOT ALL oo some Engr are money bag o they are more ok than some client oo they don’t care about your money all they care about is to delivered your job as agreed , those rogue ones they notice that the project belongs to diaspora client’ they will change there mode of operandi ,, they believed that those people picks money on ground over there.
Also some client do shot there selves on leg bcs they will go for lesser labour cost quotation not knowing that the project handler as inflated Material cost, and quantity
Once the client later says look I’m buying materials myself Gbam whalah will start.

My brother So many things do happen in this field oo

@rotecch77 Forget it. Whether engineer na money bag or not, no engineer will take up a project with the aim of not gaining. Some will aim to gain a whole lot while some will be considerate. There’s nothing like engineer just want to deliver the job. Even family member wey be engineer go wan benefit from you not to talk of outsider engineer. Like I said before, it’s always a great idea for clients to have knowledge in this field for so many reasons if not, chai 🙆‍♀️

Rightly said; some artisans contractors , Engr’s are killer NOT ALL oo some Engr are money bag o they are more ok than some client oo they don’t care about your money all they care about is to delivered your job as agreed , those rogue ones they notice that the project belongs to diaspora client’ they will change there mode of operandi ,, they believed that those people picks money on ground over there.
Also some client do shot there selves on leg bcs they will go for lesser labour cost quotation not knowing that the project handler as inflated Material cost, and quantity
Once the client later says look I’m buying materials myself Gbam whalah will start.

My brother So many things do happen in this field oo[/quote]

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floshady02:
@rotecch77 Forget it. Whether engineer na money bag or not, no engineer will take up a project with the aim of not gaining. Some will aim to gain a whole lot while some will be considerate. There’s nothing like engineer just want to deliver the job. Even family member wey be engineer go wan benefit from you not to talk of outsider engineer. Like I said before, it’s always a great idea for clients to have knowledge in this field for so many reasons if not, chai 🙆‍♀️

Rightly said; some artisans contractors , Engr’s are killer NOT ALL oo some Engr are money bag o they are more ok than some client oo they don’t care about your money all they care about is to delivered your job as agreed , those rogue ones they notice that the project belongs to diaspora client’ they will change there mode of operandi ,, they believed that those people picks money on ground over there.
Also some client do shot there selves on leg bcs they will go for lesser labour cost quotation not knowing that the project handler as inflated Material cost, and quantity
Once the client later says look I’m buying materials myself Gbam whalah will start.

My brother So many things do happen in this field oo

Try to read again,you don’t get me right , we are talking about reap off not gain, who will work without gain? May be the person is an angel shaa Abi charity organization work lolz
To Engr, artisan, contractors is it our birth right to buy materials ? NO, if you notice that your client don’t trust your materials quotation leave it and focus on your charges.to save you from long episode of explanation and embarrassment.
Focus on your charges and deliver the job as agreed. Lastly lets your client monitor the usage of the Materials he or she supplied.
Shikena

@rotecch77 There's difference between trusting a quotation and when you know for a fact that a quotation is over priced/ too high. Its true that buying materials is not engineers birthright but majority of engineers make it seem so. Some will even go as far as if the client don’t let them buy materials, they won’t accept the job all because of the huge amount of money they want to gain which is wickedness. But it’s good to know that some engineers like yourself would be willing to focus on your charges only and get the job done with good heart and the fear of God. Because some evil wicked engineers will later show clients shege all because they were not given the chance to buy the materials and do wicked things like abandoning the project after collecting some amount of money or do shabby jobs.