spyder880:
I had to go searching for tiles yesterday, found some from many different shops and bought them. Also bought a bag of white cement for grouting.

Sir, what is the cost of white cement? What is the name of tiles you bought and how much are they sold for per sq.mt?

Thanks in advance.

FastShipping:


Sir, what is the cost of white cement? What is the name of tiles you bought and how much are they sold for per sq.mt?

Thanks in advance.

That bag of tiles cement cost N2500 for the bag. I bought some China wall tiles at N1200 per sqm.

spyder880:


That bag of tiles cement cost N2500 for the bag. I bought some China wall tiles at N1200 per sqm.

Amazing! Thanks for the reply.

We are right now completing the second soakaway system

Right now, we are adding skirting tiles all round the whole flats

Looking rough and dirty as work is ongoing now.

Every room, living room and staircase will have skirting tiles

We are still looking at the economic benefits of screeding the walls internal and external of this house.
Is the added beauty going to affect rental value?
Will the amount spent screeding the walls be recouped from rents easily?

Because we might just pull down the scaffolding wood and then paint the walls as it is. This is a commercial property anyway.

But we need to start working on the fence, a full plaster and dressing work, fence capping, wires and lighting. We are also going to put a second gate at the other end of the front fence.

spyder880:
We are still looking at the economic benefits of screeding the walls internal and external of this house.
Is the added beauty going to affect rental value?
Will the amount spent screeding the walls be recouped from rents easily?

Because we might just pull down the scaffolding wood and then paint the walls as it is. This is a commercial property anyway.

Spyder880 well done.

I have noticed lately this screeding thing. Please educate us what is the advantage of screeding as against good quality paint and just paint directly like you said. In those days we use to white-wash walls before painting but as paint quality got better, white-wash died. Now it is back and called screeding or I'm I wrong?

Please what is the minimum price of pop per sqm in lagos. Any info will help me. thanks.

diordaves:


Spyder880 well done.

I have noticed lately this screeding thing. Please educate us what is the advantage of screeding as against good quality paint and just paint directly like you said. In those days we use to white-wash walls before painting but as paint quality got better, white-wash died. Now it is back and called screeding or I'm I wrong?

Let me be a little blunt here, Screeding walls is a fad which just caught on in the building industry!

Surprised? Okay I will explain.

Back in the days as we all remember, people build their houses, insist on a quality plastering and dressing work and later paint their houses as normal. Of course the walls will never be perfect, but what is?

We have products in the market which we use to fill up cracks and indentures on the walls to level the surface before painting, we all know of paint "filler" a product made to help painters do a good job.

But people wanted more, our search for perfection led us to screeding wall surfaces to ensure a smoother finish. First it started as an inside affair, then we started using it on external surfaces, now we even use it in storage rooms and generator houses In fact, some people now insist on screeding or they will not like the house.

Togolese workers first started it here, then Nigerians copied it, (trust our people to mess things up with our hurry hurry, quality is dropping) and now it is reigning so much like every other new thing introduced into this country. It is no longer a need-to-have item on the home owners menu, its now a must have for most people. And building costs keep going up.........

Please note that I am not against screeding walls in anyway, but we should always weigh our choices against other competing needs. Will discuss this with pictures later.

spyder880:


Let me be a little blunt here, Screeding walls is a fad which just caught on in the building industry!

Surprised? Okay I will explain.

Back in the days as we all remember, people build their houses, insist on a quality plastering and dressing work and later paint their houses as normal. Of course the walls will never be perfect, but what is?

We have products in the market which we use to fill up cracks and indentures on the walls to level the surface before painting, we all know of paint "filler" a product made to help painters do a good job.

But people wanted more, our search for perfection led us to screeding wall surfaces to ensure a smoother finish. First it started as an inside affair, then we started using it on external surfaces, now we even use it in storage rooms and generator houses In fact, some people now insist on screeding or they will not like the house.

Togolese workers first started it here, then Nigerians copied it, (trust our people to mess things up with our hurry hurry, quality is dropping) and now it is reigning so much like every other new thing introduced into this country. It is no longer a need-to-have item on the home owners menu, its now a must have for most people. And building costs keep going up.........

Please note that I am not against screeding walls in anyway, but we should always weigh our choices against other competing needs. Will discuss this with pictures later.

What an interesting insight.


When it comes to tiling what is your view on spacing.
Looks like most tilers have also started doing away with spacing.



Talking about the Togolese, they are really very good artisans.
I noticed they bevel their skirt tiles to avoid accumulation of dust.

spyder880:
We are still looking at the economic benefits of screeding the walls internal and external of this house.
Is the added beauty going to affect rental value?
Will the amount spent screeding the walls be recouped from rents easily?

Because we might just pull down the scaffolding wood and then paint the walls as it is. This is a commercial property anyway.

My candid opinion is that L/L should forget the screeding as that will be including a feature that most people will not be willing to pay for. Let him instead get top quality craftsmen to do the painting. The tiling and other features are already very elaborate for a tenanted building. L/L major challenge is that rents in different areas are determined by the market and no matter the nature of your building, variation from the market rate will be very marginal if any at all.

eaglechild:

What an interesting insight.


When it comes to tiling what is your view on spacing.
Looks like most tilers have also started doing away with spacing.



Talking about the Togolese, they are really very good artisans.
I noticed they bevel their skirt tiles to avoid accumulation of dust.

Togolese workers come in here well trained, but many of them are succumbing to the Nigerian factor. Follow our discussion about tiling and spacers in this page https://www.nairaland.com/1907636/port-harcourt-luxury-flats/9

spyder880:


Let me be a little blunt here, Screeding walls is a fad which just caught on in the building industry!

Surprised? Okay I will explain.

Back in the days as we all remember, people build their houses, insist on a quality plastering and dressing work and later paint their houses as normal. Of course the walls will never be perfect, but what is?

We have products in the market which we use to fill up cracks and indentures on the walls to level the surface before painting, we all know of paint "filler" a product made to help painters do a good job.

But people wanted more, our search for perfection led us to screeding wall surfaces to ensure a smoother finish. First it started as an inside affair, then we started using it on external surfaces, now we even use it in storage rooms and generator houses In fact, some people now insist on screeding or they will not like the house.

Togolese workers first started it here, then Nigerians copied it, (trust our people to mess things up with our hurry hurry, quality is dropping) and now it is reigning so much like every other new thing introduced into this country. It is no longer a need-to-have item on the home owners menu, its now a must have for most people. And building costs keep going up.........

Please note that I am not against screeding walls in anyway, but we should always weigh our choices against other competing needs. Will discuss this with pictures later.

Spyder, I always enjoy your concise analysis.

We are doing a lot of works on the plastering of this fence, mounting the fence caps and installing lighting fittings with barbed coiling wires. You can see the fence lights piping works.

More

Provisions made for fence lighting fittings

From the second to the last picture, it seems you've painted this house.

Next action, lets pull off all the scaffolding wood and patch the whole walls, we are getting ready to paint this house.

FastShipping:
From the second to the last picture, it seems you've painted this house.

No The painting comes next, I have been going through paint types and prices, will update the forum later about that.

I am also working out tank stand details with my welders. We areconsidering using Thick galvanised pipes for this tank stand that will be here.

We plan to have two different tank stands in this compound, each will carry 4 tanks on three rungs.

We are still here today, removing the scaffolding wood from this hous, and patching the holes on the walls.

And casting the fence caps, after inserting the barbed wire holders

Wall plastering continues on Monday morning

Putting final touches. ..........

spyder880:
Putting final touches. ..........

Winding down beautifully. Good

We have got our hands on the remaining tiles in this house which we ordered from Spain
We are now going to complete the tiles in this house, more updates from the completion of this house later

OgaSpyder well done, I we like to know the name and cost of that tiles on the hall way or balcony on the top picture.

spyder880:
We have got our hands on the remaining tiles in this house which we ordered from Spain
We are now going to complete the tiles in this house, more updates from the completion of this house later

Did you eventually decide on weather to screed this house or not? If not, are you going to move straight to painting and do you factor this in before deciding on the plastering style etc. Just curious. Good to know you have opened another division dealing in building materials