₦airaland Forum

mufutau55:
OK. Thanks. I am on the right track.. copying your work from that Ile-Oluji project. I used H Beam bars like the second pic for two tanks.
Thank you.

Hajji M.

brabus:
Setbacks at various NextHome projects in the city.

K-024 - 12m front, 9m left, 4.5m right and back (space between building and the fence). We have minimum of 9m between buildings. On the left side, there's over 20m between building. Average plot price is N40,000 per m²

The Reserve - 12m front, 6m right, 8m back and 3m right. Average plot price is N25m per plot.

10AB - 9m front, 3m on all other sides. Average plot price is 40,000 per m²

Forthright Ibafo - 7.5m front and right, 3m left, 4.5m back. Average plot price is N10m per plot.

I know say city pass city though. And shoes get sizes!!!

mufutau55:
What other format/type will you recommend? Learning/educative purposes only.
Hajji M.

brabus:
This types (in picture below) I know for 2 floors. But I'll choose the Water Tank Stanchion (2nd pic below) over the galvanized tank tower in multi-floor buildings especially in buildings higher than 8m

EgunMogaji:
Stronger and looks much much better.
You know that healthy concern that you have for parapets? I have the same for EWTs, some are downright scary.

mufutau55:
My brother, many things scares me nowadays.

Cantilever - I had bad experience...
Well (Water well)
Parapets (Insitu) - too much weight
And the same Water Tanks... (but I have no alternatives for this)

I think one's phobia also increases due to aging... the older we become; the more we don't want to die unnecessary death.

Hajji M.

EgunMogaji:
So fellow builders I have a question.

Do you even include any plan to have water and sewer pipes going out to the street in the hopes that there might be connection to city services in the future?

Have we totally given up then?

abdulwastecx:
Where I live.... There is a constant water supply. We don't even have borehole or overhead water tank

EgunMogaji:
So fellow builders I have a question.

Do you even include any plan to have water and sewer pipes going out to the street in the hopes that there might be connection to city services in the future?

Have we totally given up then?

3strike:
When we get there, we will figure out how to cross. but until then we go just do the needful........

EgunMogaji:
So fellow builders I have a question.

Do you even include any plan to have water and sewer pipes going out to the street in the hopes that there might be connection to city services in the future?

Have we totally given up then?

EgunMogaji:
True but man there will be lots of shyte to dig up.

EgunMogaji:
Wow...very nice, where is this?
I estimate N1million wasted for waste and water supply system

EgunMogaji:
So fellow builders I have a question.

Do you even include any plan to have water and sewer pipes going out to the street in the hopes that there might be connection to city services in the future?

Have we totally given up then?

mufutau55:
I am not even sure in my lifetime if we will get there.... all the places I have my properties, there are no running water anyway and no adequate electricity; so what makes you think we even get to that point you are talking about. Not be Naija we dey talk about?
I am not waiting for that o.

Hajji M.

abdulwastecx:
Private investments in amenities like pipe born water is the future of real estate investment.
Imagine a scenario where there is a water provider in an estate, supply water through metered pipe to every household at a very reasonable price. Capital outlay of borehole, over head tank will be reducedl

mufutau55:
I am not even sure in my lifetime if we will get there.... all the places I have my properties, there are no running water anyway and no adequate electricity; so what makes you think we even get to that point you are talking about. Not be Naija we dey talk about?
I am not waiting for that o.

Hajji M.

brabus:
It has never worked. Our mind has been programmed here to reject alternative offerings. I can show you hundreds of estates with all these amenities and yet they have tank over their roofs and boreholes.

brabus:
It has never worked. Our mind has been programmed here to reject alternative offerings. No matter how good it looks. I can show you hundreds of estates with all these amenities and yet they have tank over their roofs and boreholes.

It's always like "There's borehole in egun' house, I think I should have mine. Who knows one day this estate thing may fail. I should have a backup plan" And as if they have "eyin oke" the estate water plant will cease to work for 2 weeks.

Some people reading this knew I'm not lying. I've done this for more than 3 nairalanders even in estates where there's strict regulations restricting sinking of well.

I can even show you one of my project that I blogged here, we had to hide the GP tank inside the roof. The excuse was if water fails us, there must be a backup in case visitor needs to use the bathroom.

PeoplesArmy:
That's a single story approach....it is not complete. With what I have read on the thread about Lekki Gardens, any sane person will opt for the borehole and overhead tank rather than pay the price being charged especially if you work for your money, understand the market and can do a back of the envelope cost benefit analysis. Like you would day, think value and not cost....in many estates I have seen, value for central water supply has long gone out through the window.

abdulwastecx:
May be when people realized how dangerous most of the polluted underground water is.... The they will embrace alternative

PeoplesArmy:
We know how bad it can be. An additional feature most people have now incorporated is a water treatment plant. In fact most bottled water now are simply water from boreholes that have been treated via these water treatment plant... That's for guys with conscience o. Others don't really bother.

abdulwastecx:
I'm optimistic we will get there soon.
Central savage system
Pipe born water and domestic cooking gas will be accessible to most home soon

twinskenny:
nawa for you o. well let me keep quite

EgunMogaji:
Those 25 milla per plot people are not on Nairaland anyways

The assumption that we all bought postage stamp sized plot in overpriced slums and cram it full of buildings is the problem.

lastpage:
we are here to learn, irrespective of who we are in real life.

Lastpage!

EgunMogaji:
Let's talk horticulture.

So the layout of the compound is clear now that I have the substructure of the main house, soakaways, etc completed and it's time to plant trees so that they can mature as the build continues.

I would like recommendations for exotic, shady trees (I will have one or two palm trees but not really a fan).

Can I get motivational pictures of trees that grown well in Southern Nigeria?

Thanks.

1) Will Japanese Maple grown in Nigeria?

2) I want one giant tree that will ground my compound, what's a good and safe one?

mavverick:
Lol

See wetin obodo oyinbo dey do ... lol

EgunMogaji:
Let's talk horticulture.

So the layout of the compound is clear now that I have the substructure of the main house, soakaways, etc completed and it's time to plant trees so that they can mature as the build continues.

I would like recommendations for exotic, shady trees (I will have one or two palm trees but not really a fan).

Can I get motivational pictures of trees that grown well in Southern Nigeria?

Thanks.

1) Will Japanese Maple grown in Nigeria?

2) I want one giant tree that will ground my compound, what's a good and safe one?