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When Cow door closes Chicken door opens.
Besides, they will be shocked with a rude shock that some innovative disruptors would finally solve the beef debacle

Useless

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Happy birthday

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It is well

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That woman has made history in attacking failed Governments fearlessly and fiercely. Noone can dispute that. I have seen many of her videos attacking the Buhari Government.
Though I didnt know why she recently called PDP a terrorist party since its APC that is in government.

No wonder he keeps fighting Gov Ortom that is fighting for his people. All he wants to do is to appear as a friend to the North. But he is using the wrong approach

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Rest in peace

Mykel51:


Hello Engr,

I can see you used deep raft with wide strip footings for this structure, what is the dimension of the strip footing ?

I would appreciate your warm response.

800mm width
300 mm thick

Our sorry

VEXT:
Please I have a question...
Why do rooms look small when a foundation is laid, and then appear larger after the building is finished?

Rooms look smaller because the human eyes automatically subtract the trenches from the room. So that remaining part of the room that wasnt excavated will look as the room.

In the illustration I gave in the picture, the white line is how big the room is. But the eye will be thinking it is the red like that is the dimension.

That was how a client kept saying "these rooms are too small" and the Builder kept adding and adding to the size until the house became too big. That building became an uncompleted complicated project till this day.

The best practice is to fill the Blocks in the foundation with weak concrete (or normal concrete if you can afford it). The reason for filling blocks with concrete is obvious: To make the blocks stronger as if they are concrete blocks.
There is what is called EARTH PRESSURE acting on the blocks which makes the blockwork act as if they are Retaining Walls. So leaving them Hollow like that is not the best however since to avoid the cost of filling them with concrete, they just assign a labourer to block the holes before putting the chain beam to connect all the columns (pillars)

Then coming to the question of filling the blocks with laterite (filling sand), is not a common practice thought some people do it. It is not advisable to have earth on both sides of the block and also inside the blocks. The soil inside the holes of the blocks doesnt offer added strength like concrete will do, so it becomes an added load on the blocks. It is like a pregnant woman. The baby inside her is an added load. Whatever doesnt make you stronger makes you weaker. It's a universal principle.

If you have added questions you can ask on this thread on Nairaland
https://www.nairaland.com/2406381/ask-all-questions-building-foundations

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I am happy that Seun is now Godly. Those days when we nairaland.com was young the guy had this Atheistic disposition. Glory be to God that his dad or uncle Mr Osewa has impacted on him in that regard

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Good advice

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The Civil War some persons are seeking for, May God Avert it in Jesus name

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