spyder880:

@ atasteve, burying plumbing pipes in the decking makes for neater works, but could turn bad if there are any leakages later on in life. I have seen where they buried waste pipes in wall pillars and it later burst, the correction process is always very expensive, plus the offensive odor it throws out. I love neat works where i dont see waste pipes, but i will do external piping of waste in my house.

Another angle to it is that piping internally will save you on concrete, and thats why some contractors endorse it, think of this, you have 9" square pillars that you will pour and out of that you will bury 4" plastic pipes into it, sounds like saving on concrete by as much as 30% on the pillar. But my concern is this, do you know that the targeted strenght of the column has been compromised by the hole created inside the column, and that may cause some safety issues.

atasteve:

Lord Spyder880, that is why I call you Oga . You are absolutely correct. Wear and tear affects everything in life, there was an incidence where poo was filling up the walls/columns and nobody got to know until it became a big issue.

As you said the strength of the column is already compromised by reducing the core in order to create space for the pipe.

I went for the surface piping option and I am happy with the result,

Thanks Lord Spyder880 for the lesson.

We are learning on a daily basis and dont have to pay . . . . .

spyder880:

^^^ just what I need now, maybe God told you to send this to me.

Vikin:

I bought my Land with all the paper work cost me 1m(somewhere close to Phc).

I got a friend and did a free building plan(twin 1 bedroom flat)

Started with 12 trips of sand, 100bgs of cement, got ppl to mould the blocks, 30blocks for 1 bag of cement.
Insummary, it cost me a total of app 6.5million, with borehole in place.

Fully furnished, tiles all floor, kitchen walls, painted.

Once u start, tell us the phase u are in and lets put our comment.

thanks

spyder880:

@ atasteve, burying plumbing pipes in the decking makes for neater works, but could turn bad if there are any leakages later on in life. I have seen where they buried waste pipes in wall pillars and it later burst, the correction process is always very expensive, plus the offensive odor it throws out. I love neat works where i dont see waste pipes, but i will do external piping of waste in my house.

Another angle to it is that piping internally will save you on concrete, and thats why some contractors endorse it, think of this, you have 9" square pillars that you will pour and out of that you will bury 4" plastic pipes into it, sounds like saving on concrete by as much as 30% on the pillar. But my concern is this, do you know that the targeted strenght of the column has been compromised by the hole created inside the column, and that may cause some safety issues.

Aventures:

A piece of Advice, since this tread is meant to educate us on hw to start a bldg project from start to finishing i wish to advice that b4 you purchase any land try to know hw does the area looks like during raining season no matter hw dry, hard and strong the place may be at the time of inspection ask questions or better still wait till raining season. I am talking frm experience. Myself and my client's representative bought a Land for my client at Arepo early this year the land was super dry and hard infact the surveyor had to use digger b4 fixing the beacons. But lo & behold we went back around August this year to commence work only to found water flowing on the surface of the land like a river even up till now. I did my estimate based on what i saw previously but i had to review my process and this cost extra 400k. The client release the money reluctantly thinking it is one of the contractor's gimmicks to reap people off but i nevr mind i insited on getting the money and do the right thing. "If the foundation is destoyed what can a righteous do"

By the grace of God the project is up to first floor decking now. i wish i have time to teach us on the advatanges of frame structure and the process and also give out the exaxt quaNTITIES of materials used, labour charge and all vital info. God will help us.

spyder880:

^^^^ Thank you for reminding me, my mentor thought me to buy lands only during the rainy season, on one occassion, we delayed payment for one plot till the heavy rains, he called me out and we stood under the rain for more than any hour, he wanted to see the speed and strenght of the flood water passing through the plot and the road. Rain beat me that day sotay all my clothes soaked with water.