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Work closes 31th and we resume back in earnest this weekend while we continue work fully next week

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Chekitaut:
i neva go against your word...you on point

Copy that.
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Chekitaut:
God will bless you, let me also make it clear you can never get good result from hand mould block, reason hand can never vibrate what machine does, if you still have to use hand to mould blocks, i employ you to take all measures to reinforced your structure, for bungalow as low as one board raft & tie @ lintel you avoid crack. Build safe, 2019 we will build home not house. God bless you Happy New Year.

Sir, I don't advice anyone to use hand ooo cos hand can never do the vibration well like the machine designed for it.
The worse term scenario it shouldn't be used more than for a small portable bungalow.
I disagree on this, using hands isn't good enough and perhaps the KN of the block done by a machine is definitely different from the ones made by mere human hand.
We are on same page bro

Takoro13:
Expact advise is need. I want block makers (manual/hand moulders) to produce 35 blocks per cement bag for me but they insist on produce 27-29 blocks per cement of 9" Are they right to tell me 35 blocks per bag of cement is no good or what? What advice would you give on 6" per cement.

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To the best of my understanding sir, 27 is the set standard but if you can maintain 30 it's fair but best do the 27.
I've seen 55per bag before and 120 per 2bags which is very bad.
30 is cool n fair.

mufutau55:
No Sir. She is a well respected woman with more balls than most of us here.

Hajji M.

Smiles!
Ok sir.

gabbytabby:
Just use 9 inches and give yourself peace of mind.

Lol
I like this man.
Good!

tevanso:
What I will tell u as a builder is, if u can afford to buy land and can still afford to build a house, what difference in price should stop you from going for 9inches for ur building foundation. Structurally 9inches blocks gives a stable Strength to withstand any load coming on it. What is worth doing is worth doing well. Any day any time, I won't advice anyone to use 6inches for foundation. Though it will carry the load now, but with time, it will start telling on it . Build right . Seek for professional advice.

Well said.
1. Soil test might be needed per the soil topography to know the soil bearing capacity before anything can be done and will be required at it best to get a good structural engineer.
2. The strength of blocks differs by sizes and production.
3. If you will be having a decking on the walls like the building a storey rise and you want 6inches by force, I will advice to use a good strong 9inches block for all exterior walls and all interior walls which BEAMS will pass through to the next column per each panel of the building.
6inches can be used where NO BEAM pass through either load bearing and non load bearing respectively.
4. Always try to do the needful, it might take time and cost alot but you won't regret it for once when it's well handled and done by a professional hand (Sound Architect/Structural engineer).

One of my clients once want us to reduce standard cos it's seem high for but we persist we can't bend the Unrivaled Quality, the client might choose to hold on then at worse term scenario.


It's a quack engineer or Architect that will tell u to use 12mm rods for storey rise.
Y16 might be recommended per what you wanna raise and Y20 are sometimes needed in beams per the design.

I can recommend Y12 rods for bungalow without Pent, if wealthy enough buy TMT and if you want less but good ones then go for the best local irons which I know to be LCI.


Good morning and Happy last Monday in year 2018.
Happy New year in advance

I like this Chekitaut

tevanso:
its the clients that are always not willing to pay Engineers . i left a project at airport road last year because the client stopped paying for supervision. He later start begging after the bricklayers messed up the job for him. That serves them right.

Exactly!
You got this right.
Another thing is to divide the supervision and engineering fee into two or less.

Chekitaut:
Am scared in Benin, Edo state is like all the Bricklayers have collided to sent all the Engineers packing, thereby building dead traps for people.

You can not imagine building a storey building with 6inches(throughout) block 12mm steel road for columns.

I swear entering some build in Benin, Edo State is like"Eferevor" ...u go wond ooo.

Lol, that's people for you.
It's just like a building that collapse in Lekki, tho handle by fraudulent engineers which have been challenged, it was found out to have used Y8 rebars for decking.
Tho we currently have same challenge on site as the client now want the void slabbed which we tried to convince him then cos of his land which is very small so he can have an upper family lounge which he refused but now want it done.
New column (s) are always needed for such depending on the building structure.

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Day 3

Removal of probs Sha be completed today in the respect of scaffold for the straight gallery wall and also casting of straight column in between today and tomorrow.

More....
Cartilever for the Madam's Bedroom and toilet... children bedroom at the edge so spacious

DAY 2
More...
1200mm cartilever for the gallery.... Spacious living room...

DAY 2.
Progress
When it's young, morning shot

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Dennis3D:
1.8million should do it conformably though depending on the design and size if rooms. See our profile here or visit our page for more construction works we do. Or call the numbers there

The range is cool in respect of the factor added per design and room sizes but the topography of the land shouldn't be left out, the 1.8m will be achieved if the land is dry using pad and strip foundation and when savings is been done.
The last 4bedroom duplex foundation with German cost 1.75m taken all the factors you mentioned and the one I included.

Nice one mate.

What we started achieving in half day

Removing of probs in the respect.
The 1200mm cartilever for the living room gallery... Everything done to standard...Quiet marvelous.

Pictures shows evidences and we don't bend standard no matter what.

Block work layout started

COMPLIMENT OF THE SEASON.

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darenyx:
Little wonder why most persons collect money before even sending a sample plan... funny thing is the plan won't even fit into his said plot...

Lol ... funny!

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We resume back at work starting from Tomorrow/next day by His Grace.
We make sure so far we cure the decking every blessed day.

Happy Christmas to all our followers and thanks for following

darenyx:
The same reason why most people don't share files on here... he must have asked to see the plan and I sent screenshot of the floor plan to him and that's what he using.. I haven't reproduced this plan for anyone, neither given anyone the permission to build this..

I support what Juell said to remove dimension if at all you wanna screenshot the plan at all.
I do have similar issues atimes when someone will show up and ask for a particular plan of a 3D seen here on Nairaland which belongs to another client, I don't give it out cos most times I found a way to speak with them and convince them but if my effort is futile I go back to my CAD and edit all dimensions leaving only overall external dimension in case he wanna see if it can fit his plot...that becomes a sketch and not a working drawing again.
What he has done worse pass to have come online posting that, that's plagiarism...
"A client plan is his privacy"
Who knows who is who.

Merry Christmas everyone.
Mufutau55 hajji I rep you for good job on this thread to have thought then on creating this.
God bless