Good day nairalanders. I'm in the process of making compressed stabilise earth blocks (CSEB).for my future retirement home. Location
Owan west in sabogida ora. Edo state.
I would like to share my experience with you all on this blocks making process. I want an eco friendly building and the process has to start with natural organic building materials.
The primarily source of CSEB materials are laterite clay soil compressed at high pressure to form block typically around 3000psi is applied in compression and the original soil is reduced by half.
CSEB blocks are extra solid and can be manufacture to a predictable sizes and has fine flat sizes n 90 degree angle edges. Non toxic materials and completely Natural. Sound proofing and fire resistance

Location; owan west LGA. Edo state
Contractor; bigdaddy and bigmama. Abuja
Duration; three weeks
Estimated blocks; 20.000 equates 7.000 normal sandcrete blocks.

Project is live and I'm directing proceedings from diaspora. I will will share you all my experience and experiences are work progress

Preparation of the mixtures for this project is 5 wheelbarrow of laterite of 25percent clay and a wheelbarrow of stonedust. And one bag of cement. We have three differents of mixing ratios
Ratio 1
5 wheelbarrow of laterite,1 wheelbarrow of pure river sharp sand and 1 bag of cement.

Ratio 2
5 wheelbarrow of laterite 1 wheelbarrow of stonedust and one bag of cement

Ratio 3
4 wheelbarrow of laterite 1 wheelbarrow of plaster sand , 1 wheelbarrow of stonedust and one bag of cement.

I bought a very good admixtures for all the ratio.
Waterproof admixtures and extra strength admixtures

Dats really nice.. Please continue to update us about it sir

Day three of productions

We received a very good quality laterite this morning.

Block from this laterite

David1017:
Dats really nice.. Please continue to update us about it sir

Block from this laterite.

Beautiful laterite absolutely nature at its best. The sand looks like pigmentation of the sand.
I know this building with interlocking bricks is not that popular in nija yet.but I'm going to give the best of this project

Very good indeed

Today productions

Work is progressing

Day 6 of productions. Almost 6000 blocks done

Oarhe12:
Good day nairalanders. I'm in the process of making compressed stabilise earth blocks (CSEB).for my future retirement home. Location
Owan west in sabogida ora. Edo state.
I would like to share my experience with you all on this blocks making process. I want an eco friendly building and the process has to start with natural organic building materials.
The primarily source of CSEB materials are laterite clay soil compressed at high pressure to form block typically around 3000psi is applied in compression and the original soil is reduced by half.
CSEB blocks are extra solid and can be manufacture to a predictable sizes and has fine flat sizes n 90 degree angle edges. Non toxic materials and completely Natural. Sound proofing and fire resistance

Location; owan west LGA. Edo state
Contractor; bigdaddy and bigmama. Abuja
Duration; three weeks
Estimated blocks; 20.000 equates 7.000 normal sandcrete blocks.

Project is live and I'm directing proceedings from diaspora. I will will share you all my experience and experiences are work progress

Owan West LGA? Isn't that where Sabongida-Ora is located? I have some cousins from that side, o!

Work in progress. Three weeks of productions. We have reached a milestone. Halfway through. Ten thousand blocks already mould. Remaining extra Ten thousand blocks
Remaining blocks are
Three thousand U Blocks (lintel blocks)
Four thousand Half blocks
Five thousand normal blocks of 300mm x 150mm x 100mm.

Recently produced blocks

Half block n lintel block

Correct. Sabogida ora precisely]

Owan West LGA? Isn't that where Sabongida-Ora is located? I have son cousins from that side, o! [/quote]

Absolutely. Correct. Sabogida ora site location

Owan West LGA? Isn't that where Sabongida-Ora is located? I have son cousins from that side, o! [/quote]

What is the total cost of the project using these bricks?

Do you mean total cost of the blocks?.
Or the entire project.

Total expenditure for blocks moulding was 2million naira. 21,000 blocks. Equivalent to 7,000 normal blocks. Next stage will be foundation to dpc. I will keep you guys updated as work goes on. No total budget for now but I'm building from my salary without borrowing so is going to be gradual. Materials for next stage are ready. Cost of materials are rising fast so i can not really specify total budget. But i will make it simple and Natural Eco friendly house

Thanks be to God almighty. Completion of blocks moulding. 21,000 in total
It took one month and 3 days .

21 000 blocks

U blocks for lintel

Half blocks

Any more progress here? Interested in this technology.

Wow very nice, very interesting. Keep up the good work.

Will start the foundation of the building march or April

Oarhe12:
Work is progressing

Hello Sir, great project. I’m interested in that machine they are compressing the laterite with. Did you import it or it was made locally? I’ve seen the automatic line-up from China on a farm here in Nigeria and its quite costly. Hoping to get this manual one. Thank you.

The bricks were made on site. The machine used was foreign but it was manually compressed. They brought the machine from Abuja

Oarhe12:
It was made locally. Company from Abuja

Can you share their details please? Thank you.

Oarhe12:
Preparation of the mixtures for this project is 5 wheelbarrow of laterite of 25percent clay and a wheelbarrow of stonedust. And one bag of cement. We have three differents of mixing ratios
Ratio 1
5 wheelbarrow of laterite,1 wheelbarrow of pure river sharp sand and 1 bag of cement.

Ratio 2
5 wheelbarrow of laterite 1 wheelbarrow of stonedust and one bag of cement

Ratio 3
4 wheelbarrow of laterite 1 wheelbarrow of plaster sand , 1 wheelbarrow of stonedust and one bag of cement.

I bought a very good admixtures for all the ratio.
Waterproof admixtures and extra strength admixtures

And how many blocks do you get per ratio?