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CHESTER48:
like a room before the parlor.. Like in my house, our ants room is bigger than our main parlor. I don't know why.but we have chairs in the ant room and TV.. B4 the main parlor

allbricks:
With a standard finish, modern building thread and also cost effective 3.5m would do d job, consider flat roofing ...my advice. That design isn't cost effective

Jarus:
Gbam. I was in this stage in 2009. I asked same question. I even asked in Nairaland.

I asked our family bricklayer. My salary was about 200k then. I was intially scared of the costs I was hearing.

I just started anyway, ignoring all the estimates.

Don't soend too mych time on this. Just start, even if it's just 250k you have.

Jarus:
Gbam. I was in this stage in 2009. I asked same question. I even asked in Nairaland.

I asked our family bricklayer. My salary was about 200k then. I was intially scared of the costs I was hearing.

I just started anyway, ignoring all the estimates.

Don't soend too mych time on this. Just start, even if it's just 250k you have.

Sirambassador:
for the mean time, we have to hang around. Somewhere
But wait ooo,,, wetin carry you come here

Sirambassador:
for the mean time, we have to hang around. Somewhere
But wait ooo,,, wetin carry you come here

JoshMedia:
I catch you They don pursue Una comot from Currency thread

JoshMedia:
I catch you They don pursue Una comot from Currency thread

Daboomb:
Haaa! Backup ke? I was just expressing my own opinion ni o! I dont do backups with one against another. But we may share the same position and that is fine.

Daboomb:
Haaa! Backup ke? I was just expressing my own opinion ni o! I dont do backups with one against another. But we may share the same position and that is fine.

ihebrooke:
Coming soon

Daboomb:
Everything does not necessarily have to originate from a Textbook!
there is what we call "good practice" in cosntruction and these are time-tested practises that have yielded good results over time and hence, they become what we call "Rule of thumb".

Using 9" Blocks for External (load-bearing) walls and 6" blocks for internal (non-load bearing) partion walls is one of such.

johnson232:
Who made this standard of using 9" blocks for external walls?
Can u refer me to any textbook?
The op is only building a two bedroom bungalow & u all are screaming 9" blocks!!!
As long as the blocks are of good quality, there is nothing wrong with that building.
There would have been problem, if only the builder had place 9" blocks ontop of 6"blocks.

People build duplex with 6" solid blocks, not hollow, here u people are screaming 9" blocks for a two bedroom bungalow.

alist:
On my way to ph. I checked to see the state of work on one of our designs under construction.

bigrovar:
Hi guys. This is a bit of a long one:

So I have been away (hustling and stuff) and decided to build a low budget functional house for my family and stop the house rent which is becoming a drain. I decided to build on a 50 by 50 plot of land. A basic 2 bedroom bungalow.

I did very basic floor plan (see attached) to allow for enough space for rooms and a packing space which can take 2 cars. I used this tool http://www.sweethome3d.com/ for my floor plan.

Due to my busy schedule, I left the supervision with my brother since he had experience in construction. He hired the technicians and hands for the project while I provided money.

They took the project to lintel level when I came back to inspect it. Unfortunately I was very unhappy with what I saw. Here are my concerns


1) Against my instruction, my brother still went on to mix 9 inches with 6 inches for the outter walls. I told him to use 9 inches for the outter walls of the house all through and reserve the 6inches for the house. This was not done instead 9 inches blocks was used up to window level and 6 inches used to lintel level. I fear that this might affect the structural integrity of the house in future, since the house was designed not to have pillers and DPC was not used in the 3 course foundation.

2) I halted the roofing of the house because the carpenter recommended I use head course which is a casting done round the house 2 courses after the lintel. Is this really necessary?


My brother said the style of laying 6inch blocks on 9inch was fine since I wont be doing parapet and the soil was dry and good and " people do it alot without issues" but am not sold.

Is they any remedy to this before roofing? please gurus in the house. I would appreciate your take. I have attached pictures of the property in its current state.

STRATEK:
@bold See what u people have reduced architecture to!!!!!
Probably because u people didn't pass through the rigours of architecture.

ARCON & NIA should be scrapped, they're obviously not doing their job.

Flaghouse1:
Once the whole details are. Captured , on can zoom-in on the uploaded works to see more, however once you can upload on this forum. I think correction of the parameters shall be done automatically by the Nairaland upload portals

Flaghouse1:
Good, try and do that and you will thank your critics (me and egun) for this minuscule input, will continue to look out for update


Cheers

Flaghouse1:
Good, try and do that and you will thank your critics (me and egun) for this minuscule input, will continue to look out for update


Cheers

Flaghouse1:
Timtol,

I believe such question is okay as this is a forum where lots of people view and draw inspiration,ideas etc.

More so it's a point of contact between buyers and sellers-offeree and offeror, hence the need for such background checks which I believe will bolster confidence in your brand by all and sundry,however my advise,showcase and list some of your builds to fo people to see and draw reference from.
Well for Egun to ask such questions is not out of place becaus a lot has happened in the property section (fraud, missing of timeline etc)
I like your response to the question very matured!

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EgunMogaji:
Thank you, you have answered my questions indirectly.

You'll never hear from me again as you've removed any shadow of doubt that I had remaining.

iamlarry99:
Thanks it's does help but im trying not to make it get up to 2.5m

EgunMogaji:
What are your qualifications (education and school) and what building projects have you successfully completed (design and supervision)?

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