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FEGEITOK:
There has been a slight increase in the cost of electricity.

1,000 used to get 18 Kwh, it now fetches 16.5. What's your experience

Time to seriously consider investing on alternative power sources

Egun.mogaji said his perimeter lighting is entirely independent of the power utility company.

Time to seriously consider smart homes that give you the power to automatically turn on and off lights, I have seen one that automatically turns on the lighting if the home is occupied and turns the power off if the room is no longer occupied.

Time to get energy saving bulbs and to consider if you really need those high wattage lights.

Time to buy energy efficient devices and dispose of the old less efficient ones

Or if you prefer to make more money so all of the above does not matter to you

Yes alternative power source is good must be must be solar hybrid.

Let all your light be LED with lower wattage so that it won't consume much.

Sensor switch(presence detector) is good in the toilets and long passage and you don't need to be switching OFF and ON.

You can as well install a photocell for external lighting

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Gisbourne44:
Pls can you help me with an estimate for thunder arrestor installation.

Height of building is 7m
Kingpost is 5m


Thanks

Thanks for visiting our thread. Below are tye list of materials needed for the lightning arrestor

Copper tape 17m
Tape clip 8no
Lightning arrestor 1no
Clamp 1no
Earth rod 2no
Earth coupler 1no
Bentomite or marconite 1bag
Charcoal

Good afternoon

Caleb4show:
Please how have an idea of how many plots this building is sitting on

A plot of land

Dirkcoyt:
If you’re Yoruba read the last paragraph in Yoruba , walahi talahi if you no burst laugh I go pick one of those 100$ bill uploaded give you

I no laugh ooo.. I'm expecting the dollar

Greatness44:
Good evening everyone. Please how much can I pay plumber for mechanical work and toilet chambers. His asking price is 140k but I don’t know what to prize him. No fitting for now just the piping and the rest

Let's see the plan or Volume of work to be done

Also, it's not the work of plumber to do chambers/manholes. The bricklayer need to handle that. What he needs to do is to give the size to be constructed on site

earthrealm:
we for like see a picture of the snake naa

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all good points given.
final point, which people usually don't think of....---install a timer socket with the electric fence...to automate its turning off and on...and programme it to come on at 10pm and go off at 6am. also install the power for the fence, in a discreet place. most electric fence, consume less than 1amp and this is delivered in pulses, which isn't enough to kill a human, as the human reflex will pull/jerk your body away....only way it can kill is if someone gets trapped or hooked there

Its low voltage equipment. Your suggestion is also good by installing a switch using photocell to control the equipment.

Good evening to everyone that are following this from the first day we started

EgunMogaji2:
Nice one.

Home Depot
Lowes
Orchards
Walmart

Good luck.

PS: Some read mine as constructive criticism but some disgruntled elements sees otherwise. I graduated my tiler to the picture attached. Before it’ll have been that Nigerian mess of a thing.

The water supply pipe outlet from the soil pipe outlet is a bit far. Are you using wall hung type or close couple ? There are some close couple that you won't see the flexible connector shown at all.

Kingdemu:
Good day Gents. Can someone please talk about the central solar water heaters and how one can benefit from it in Nigeria. I was reading through old pages and I came across some few posts on it suggesting it is only achievable when incorporated in the initial building plan. Does anyone use this or has knowledge on this?

And for deep freezers, would buying a standalone solar deep freezer so as to reduce the load on a solar system one will want to incorporate, a wise decision than just factoring in your regular deep freezer into your solar system set-up budget? Thanks

Solar water is good if you want to install one in your on going project. Although it's a huge cost buying it. I have not seeing any solar freezer but to me fridge and freezer consume less power compare to other heating equipment

FEGEITOK:
I guess that's why we install surge protectors or arrestors and stabilizers to ensure that we reduce the likelihood of damage.

Infact anyone using sensitive electronics without those in Nigeria has a lot of faith or a lot of money to spare

Only if you buy correct surge arrestor or suppressor and also have good lightening arrestor

Itsrm:
I have seen an LG inverter AC with a 10 year warranty.

10yeara warranty in Nigeria?? Things are getting better be that ooo

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lorhema:
Good morning friends.

I seek your counsel for the electrical issue we have. The house wiring is 3-phase but we use a single-phase meter.

A couple of months ago, there was a 4- day blackout on our estate because of a major fault. To our shock, two of the outside lights/ bulbs continued to shine and gradually waned till they went off after two days. One is on the gatehouse and the other on the house.

We have been wondering what the issue is.

Then, last week, we found that a ceiling light in the kitchen wouldn't go off when the switch was turned off. It would either start blinking or stay lit. About 15minutes later, it would go off on its own.

Please advise on what the cause of the malfunction could be and what should be done.

Thank you for your response.

The wiring need to be checked, and do you have inverter system in your building? Check the neutral terminal of the changeover too

PrinceLat:
Good day all,

An update on my last post here, concerning the wiring of my 3 bedroom, after seeking help from twinskenny and Topsy23 concerning the quantity of wires to be used, i added one each to their proposed quantity to be on the safe side.

Day one
He called that he'll be there before 8a.m, i said very good, he did get there before 8, called me and 30mins later i was there with him, work started and they worked till almost 5pm, he now said he asked me to buy 6 bundles of red 1.5mm, but i bought 5, that now it's not enough, that we will need 2 more, i said i have no cash for that, he then suggested that the 10mm is still remaining so he'll take it back to the seller and use it to get the two red 1.5mm, i was happy, even praising him......

Day two
The previous day, he told me he'll come early again the next day, so i had to give the key to my neighbour, so that he can gain entry when he comes, surprisingly he called around 7 am, that he's on site, like the previous day, i quickly rushed down there again, he brought the two bundles of 1.5mm that he said is needed to complete the job, work commenced, around 3pm, he said the 2.5mm is more than enough that he'll take one bundle of red and black back to the seller and get like half of them back to save money, so that it won't go to waste if he decided to open the new bundles, once again i was excited, i said good choice, go ahead, he quickly put the two bundles in a sack or so i presumed, but while he was working, i decided to check the sack, and saw 3 bundles of wire instead, i challenged him, he said he mentioned 3 not 2 to me, i didn't want to drag it further, so long as we both know it's 3 that's in the sack, no p.....then he says he's stopping the work so that he can come early to finish it as he has other jobs the next day.

Day 3
I told myself something is fishy with this come early style of this electrician, so i decided I'll beat him to his own game, i got to the site 6.20a.m, lo and behold, he came exactly 6.30am, it was so dark, you could hardly see self, so i told him how do you intend to work with the day this dark, he said he needed to quickly finish my job as he is to start another one that same day. I asked him, where's the half bundle of the different wires your said you'll bring, he brought out wires that were hardly up to 20 yards, i laughed and said but you promised 50metres of the wires each, he wanted to start using them, i said no, use the ones remaining.

That was when he started to pull the wires longer than usual, in other to justify him using the one he brought, not to bore you guys with long epistle,

He opened the two bundles of 1.5mm red that he brought simultaneously, which he barely used (claims he'll still use it for looping when we are doing the fittings ....i have like one and a half bundle left) i was able to save wires worth ₦50,500 in cash and still have left over wires that could fetch me ₦30,000 if i decided to sell it,

All these artisans i fear them, it was very obvious in his reactions afterwards that i caught on to his thieving scheme , i remember saying here that except he eats the wires, I'll be there from start to finish, before he devised the early coming tactics when he saw no way for him to steal my wires.

Thanks to the people in this forum, many thanks to Topsy23 and twinskenny, i do not take your input for granted.

I decided to share this, so others can learn, thanks all

You are welcome Sir, you are smarter than him

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Installation of WC on going

Good morning to everyone

Good morning

MrDraey:
I have updated him on how I want it.

Thank you

You are welcome sir

MrDraey:
What about kitchen socket (electric stove)

Let him use 4mm also

MrDraey:
I specifically asked if heater n ac would not be too much for 2.5mm and he said it will be fine but I am not comfortable

Let him use 4mm for AC and 2.5mm for water heater

Focusmind:
4.5 and eight 330W.

It is only the masters bedroom AC that I put on with inverter . I on the one in the living room if I have visitor and switch back to public power.

New inverter 1hp window AC works well with low voltage compare to split unit of comparable capacity based on my observations

Correct

MrDraey:
Good morning and happy Sunday.

Abeg I done come again with my kobo-kobo building project.

Please help me review this wiring quotation for a two bedroom bungalow, 4 AC, 3 water heater.

4 coils of 1.5mm Red
4 coils of 1.5mm Black
3 coils of 2.5mm Red
3 coils of 2.5mm Black
4 coils of 1mm earth wire (green)
30 metre of 16mm
1 coil of TV cable.

Thank you.

1.5mm should be Red 3 black 3. Let him start with that

Also, the technician is using 2.5mm for AC and water heater based on the cables listed above

Joesaza:
I got 2 quotations for conduit piping from 2 different plumbers for a 6 bedroom duplex with 6 full baths (all ensuite) and 1 half bath(guest toilet). Which of the quotes seem to be accurate. Both plumbers visited the site to take measurements.

The first Quotation included 6inches pipes which I don't know what is using it for. The first Quotation seems to be correct. He quoted for quality materials.

The second did not include 4inches in his quote and he will definitely come back for more. Also, no materials for hot line and

bobkezel:
I thought window ACs consume more power than split units considering their noise....
Can someone enlighten us on this pls.....

The old model consume more power but the new consume less. But can't be as efficient as inverter type.

Even these days the new conventional type is not like the old type.

Most of their current is about 8A but the major thing is the starting current which is almost doubles of the running current

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