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Hatesin:
Your contact?

I responded to your email but the feedback was "email address couldn't be found"

This is my contact 08136140608

FEGEITOK:
Thanks for sharing.

Reminds me of the Biblical Building Code in Deuteronomy 22: 8:

“When you build a new house, make a parapet around your roof so that you may not bring the guilt of bloodshed on your house if someone falls from the roof.”

Your knowledge base is really wide.

Hatesin:
Your contact?

I just sent you an email.

The earliest known building code.
Zoom in to see the interpretations at the base.

Men meant business back then.

Architectural designs can be subjective, usually in designs of residential buildings a level of compromise should be achieved between the designers knowledge and the clients needs and requirement, in reality it is a 50-50 situation. This is the reason why homeowners should be actively involved in the conceptualization of their designs.

Why guests toilets are positioned in the foyer or lounge areas of the buildings usually is to maintain privacy, owing to the fact that foyers and lounge are a semi public area where guests have not too restricted access. It is only right to place the toilets there to avoid the guests getting to know what goes on in other parts of the building which might be private.

A smelly and unkept guest toilet is a function of hygiene and not an Architectural failure, after all people go to toilets of big hotels and establishments to take pictures and dress up. A guest that messes up your toilet should not get an invite another day lol.

PS: The design here is a 4 bedroom bungalow with a pent apartment.

michlins:
at four lengths and 25ft, you will have an excess of about 10ft on at least three lengths of the channels. What do you do with such waste?

Joining channels is never a problem, with good welding, it's as good as new.

Prefer having full lengths of 37/38ft for increased pressure.

michlins:
you need just 3 lengths of channels. The quotation is way too much. What's the location of the job

Why not 4 lengths of channels?
Don't like cut and join on tank stands.

DoctorWh00:
Chairmen. I’ve checked the drawings and they are very okay.
2. All necessary information’s as listed in my initial post are in the drawings
3. However, for transparency, you can send it to one more person here to also review it and give a final verdict.

DoctorWho.

To be honest with you, that drawing isn't fit to be called an Architectural drawing let alone done by someone portraying himself to be an Architect.

The drawing lacks the basic features required of an Architectural working drawing.
For instance, take a look at the floorplan posted there; no indication for floor level difference, no door and window codes, very poor dimensioning, no north arrow, no floor/ceiling finishings codes etc etc.

For the elevation;
no spot heights, no indication for doors/windows, no specification for external finishes etc etc.

How could you probably call this 8 sheets of drawing a work of Architecture?

For the records, the minimum basic features of an Architectural working drawings includes;
Location plan
Site plan
Floor plans
Roof plan
Roof covering plan
Roof framing plan ( for wooden works only)
Reflected ceiling plan
Sections
Elevations
Details
Door/window schedules
Finishes Schedules.
Finally 3Ds

In each of this features, there are a lot of information each should showcase which I may not be able to go into details here.

Following this basic features religiously one could get as much as 20sheets of well detailed drawings for a 4-5bedroom bungalow not to talk of this one with about 2/3 suspended floors.

Lastly, @ Oga Unzend please pay him his money after all there was no agreement on the basic deliverables.

Left for me, this does not qualify to be called an Architectural working drawing, infact any Architect that seals such drawings needs to be questioned.

I rest my case.

unzend:
ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS
1. Site location plan
2 site plan
3 floor plans ( ground, first second etc)
4 roof plan
5 sections (2)
6 elevations ( front, sides , rear)
7 windows & doors schedules

STRUCTURAL
1 Foundation layouts & details
2 suspended floor layouts & details
3 colum details
4 beam details + roof beams
5 stairs details
6 calculations sheet


I am not sure you've sent all this to me

These things here doesn't qualify as an Architectural working drawing. if it were to go through a proper approval process, it won't fly.

NB: I am not taking sides or trying to fuel disputes, my comment is only based on my training and professional experience.

We have taken a little break on this project while working to actualize other projects, that has been the reason for not updating this thread timely. We will be resuming work after the festivities.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL MEN OF GOODWILL.

When will resume by January 2023, we will be making a slight adjustment to the parapet by adding extra two course of blocks. This is to enable us get a considerable slope for water run off on the roof system.

Some views of the guest house.

Amarisco:
What’s your new scope for the practical completion time

Merry Christmas to you and your household.

Unfortunately due to some financial constraints from the sponsor of the project we couldn't meet up with the scheduled practical completion time.

We have resolved to continue with the project by the 3rd week of January.
The following is top of our scope:
1.Fabrication and installation of steel roof for the hall.
2. Construction of the wooden roof frame and installation of Aluminum sheets for the guesthouse.
3. Construction of security house.
4. Finishes (some parts of the buildings have been plastered already).

Thanks for checking up on our project.

Reminder: we are done with the parapet coping.

michlins:
ok, what's the current price of 2mm sheet and how many did you use. If you stick to 2mm materials all round, materials alone will be above 300k

I can point out the areas that show the guage of pan you used but that's not why we are here.

Mine you that to build a very lasting gate, you need to frame with angle bars and not the 3 by 1½ pipe you used there. Those pipes will rust in less than five years. The anchors on the gate should be at least three (four is industry standard) to handle the weight of the gate else the weight will be on the top anchor and it will die off quickly.


I don't mean to disparage your work but the way you cut costs affects quality.

Good morning Oga Michlins.

Between 75*75*3mm angle iron and 75*75*3mm square pipe, which has more strength? Are they of equal strength?

Asking to learn.

More pictorials.

Good day great nairalanders.
It's been a while I updated this thread. We have been working gradually.

Updates.
1. Hold-down bolts and base plates have been installed.
2. Roof beam concrete fully cast.
3. Parapet have been erected, ready to receive R.C. Coping.
4. Guest house about to receive concrete fascia.

money121:
Tell the same carpenter to loose the wood work and reduce it

Nawao.
This is not as easy as you think.

unzend:
Good Morning All,

Can you please assist me to know if the height of this Roofing work can be reduced ?

I need enough spacing to be available for a window on the wall of the Duplex behind ,

The carpenter went ahead to make it higher after we already concluded for a shorter height.

The reason he gives is due to rain downpour.

I am about telling him to reduce it because the number and budget of stoan coated roofing tiles have increased.

Thanks and Regards

Your roof frame is done and ready to receive covering. At this point reducing the height means that you will have to dismantle all the rafters, purlins,kingposts, structs, ridges and valleys as all would be affected. Practically you are starting a new roof frame.

Roof pitch is a factor of design. Assuming you wanted a high or low pitch roof, you should have monitored the kingpost at the design and formation stage and not now that the job is 100 percent done.

Cost of deconstructing this roof frame may be as much as the cost for constructing the frame.

EgunMogaji2:
I saw what you did there

Thanks Baba.

Tiztonio:
Thank you brother… Well explained but I don’t fully get the procedure for the monopitch coz that the oattern im going with. I intended binding the wallplate from the lintel/beam up to the roof

You are welcome sir.
Your intention is in order.

Coiner:
Greetings builders.

Please there's something I seek to understand. It's about entrance gate positions in houses. For years I have noticed the conventional way is having the gate at the extreme. But is there a reason this is done? How about ease of driving in and out.. Is that considered?

See pic for example..

It isn't ideal. Designers, builders and home owners just do that for want of space. You will agree with me that most homes where the gates are placed at the extreme, the style of parking there is usually tandem parking.

If your lot can afford a turning radius of 6m for cars, go ahead and place your gate wherever you want.

Tiztonio:
Please is copping necessary for slant roof? Is there an alternate way of holding down the roof incase of heavy wind?

For a hidden mono pitch roof, the parapet (wall) offers enough protection against wind.

A coping doesn't serve against wind effect.
Coping is used to protect parapet(walls against dampness due to rain. It comes with a trotting which allows rain to drop off from the coping to the ground without touching the walls (unfortunately most builders don't do it here). It is important your coping projects up to 150mm so as to offer better protection to the wall

For a mono pitch roof with eaves and fascia, the steel rope/ tie rod binding the wall plate and tie beam to do roof beam or last course of block is enough to act against wind effect except the wind forces in your locality is extreme.

EgunMogaji2:
Something for the evenings perusal.

Education still remains the foundation.

michlins:
I am still your trusted hand for anything welding. Kindly patronise me not because you don't have alternative but because you want to help me.

And trust me, I will deliver like I have always done

Well-done Oga Boss.

bolu1986:
Flash

Pop cement now 11k in Lagos

Really? I got for #8900 yesterday in Owerri.
Abs here is #9500.
About a month ago I bought at the rate of #6700.

More pictorials.
Meanwhile, we are about to commission a roof subcontractor to handle the fabrication and installation of the steel roof frames

Updates.
Roof beam formwork 80 percent done.
Iron fitting ongoing.

Amarisco:
I’m still intrigued

Thank you ma'am for your interest on this project. Please keep following for more updates.

The rendering of the internal face of the ground floor walls have also commenced.
Please keep following for updates.

Good day nairalanders.
We just commenced the roof beam/fascia formwork.

redgem:
He has already done that but it didn't change anything...

Please, using hammer on those doors is not the best corrective measure. Uninstall the doors, get a good welder to amend them and get a good mason to install it back. It will come out fine.

Formworks have been struck off.

Views from the street.